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China calls on UN to ban N. Korea from conducting missile launches
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Jul 5 (ANI): China has criticised North Korea for launching an Inter Continental Ballistic missile near Japan coast and called on the United Nations Security Council to ban Pyongyang from conducting any launches that use ballistic missile technology, nuclear tests or any oth
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Russia to decide on Syria, Assad's fate: Tillerson
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London[U.K.], July 4 (ANI): U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has conveyed to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres that Russia will decide the fate of Syria and President Bashar al -Assad.
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Pak not bound by U.S.' move designating Salahuddin a global terrorist
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 3 (ANI): Advisor to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, said on Monday that Islamabad was not bound to follow the decision of the United States to designate Syed Salahuddin a global terrorist as it was not a United Nations (UN) dec
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Terror-financing watchdog says Pakistan not complying with curbs
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], July 1(ANI): Pakistan is still under the scanner of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an international watchdog tracking terror financing, saying that Islamabad is not fully complying with curbs against terror entities listed with the United Nations.
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'Attack on freedom of expression': UN slams Gulf's demand t
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 30 (ANI): The United Nations has voiced concern over Gulf nations 'unacceptable attack on the right to freedom of expression and opinion' by demanding Qatar to shut down Al Jazeera network, as well as other affiliated media outlets.
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U.S. envoy slams Security Council for inaction against 'Scorpion'
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [U.S.], June 30 (ANI) : U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has slammed the Security Council for failing to take action against Tehran over its alleged lack of compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal and compared Iran to a "scorpion" which can't help sti
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Western Libya: UNSMIL personnel freed after hours of detention by gunmen
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Al-Zawiya [Libya], June 29 (ANI): A convoy of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), including four men and two women, was released after being detained by an armed group for hours on Wednesday evening, security sources from Al-Zawiya city reported.
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Iran accuses US of 'brazen' plan to change its government
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [United States], June 28 (ANI): Iran's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Gholamali Kohshroo has accusing the United States and its Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of perpetrating "a brazen interventionist plan" to change the regime in Tehran in complete
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Warning to Syria also for Russia, Iran: Nikki Haley
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], June 28 (ANI): A White House warning to Syria against another chemical attack is also directed at Russia and Iran, Damascus' principal international backers, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Tuesday.
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W.Bengal girl child scheme receives highest UN public service award
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
The Hague [The Netherlands], June 24 (ANI): The United Nations has awarded the first prize for public service to the West Bengal Government for its girl child scheme titled "Kanyashree Prakalpa".
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Indian youth selected to represent the nation at United Nations
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 24 (ANI-BusinessWireIndia): The UN Summit of 2015 was indeed a historic one; the world leaders adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, the goals didn't come into force until 2016. With the aim of ac
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WB Govt. honoured with UN Public Service Award for Kanyashree Prakalpa
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
The Hague [Netherlands], June 23 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday received the highest prize in United Nations Public Service Award for the state government's Kanyashree Prakalpa (Girl Child) scheme in The Hague, Netherlands.
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