Egypt must stop executions until it has reviewed all death sentences and retry any convictions that are found to rest on unfair trials, five independent UN human rights experts said on Friday. Egypt’s mission to the United Nations in Geneva did not immediately comment on the appeal, but Egyptian prosecution[…]
Arab states will soon embark on a diplomatic drive to persuade the United Nations to recognise a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital on territory captured by Israel in the 1967 war, Reuters reported Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said. Six Arab foreign ministers met in Amman on[…]
The UN Security Council has unanimously voted to impose tough new sanctions on North Korea in response to Pyongyang’s latest missile test. The sanctions, passed on Friday, include a ban on nearly 90 percent of refined petroleum exports to North Korea. The restrictions, proposed by the US, are designed to[…]
Three of the nine countries that voted against the UN General Assembly’s motion to reject the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel had been American colonies and are still partly governed by mutual agreements with Washington. The UN resolution was backed by 128 states, while 35[…]
In a “massive setback” to US President Donald Trump’s Middle East foreign policy, the vast majority of UN member-states voted on Thursday in favour of a motion rejecting Washington’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Trump had threatened to cut funding to countries that back the measure. Palestinian President Mahmoud[…]
US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut aid to countries that vote in favour of a draft UN resolution condemning the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Trump said at the White House on Wednesday the US would be “watching those votes” in the General[…]
The US ambassador to the UN has called for an international coalition to counter Iran’s influence in the Middle East, while accusing the country of “fanning the flames of conflict” in the region. Nikki Haley, standing in front of what she said were the remnants of Iranian-made weapons, said the[…]
The UN has warned of a rise in trafficking of the synthetic opioid tramadol across West Africa, as one official revealed it is being found in the pockets of suicide bombers. Seizures of the drug have skyrocketed since 2013, from 300kg (660lb) to more than three tonnes a year, the[…]
France’s ambassador to the UN has urged the Security Council to impose sanctions on the people involved in Libya’s slave trade of African refugees and migrants. Francois Delattre’s comments come as human trafficking in Libya has become a burning topic since a CNN investigation produced footage of West Africans being[…]
A UN inquiry into chemical-weapons use in the war in Syria is set to expire after Russia vetoed a US-sponsored resolution that would have extended its mandate. The mandate of the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM), an inquiry launched jointly by the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)[…]
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