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Rights experts urge UNESCO to defer heritage status for Thai park
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights experts urged UNESCO on Friday not to grant World Heritage Site...
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Bosnia’s peace envoy imposes jail terms for genocide denial
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Bosnia's outgoing international peace overseer decreed amendments to its criminal code on Friday to allow jail terms...
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Russia, China fail at U.N. in bid to shut down Bosnia peace envoy
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Russia and China failed on Thursday in a bid to get the U.N....
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Ex-UN rights boss to head probe into Israel, Hamas alleged crimes
GENEVA (Reuters) -Former United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay will head an international commission of inquiry into alleged crimes...
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Cyprus appeals to UN Security Council over Varosha; Turkey defiant
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus appealed to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday over plans by Turkish Cypriot authorities to partially...
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Hundreds of cities back U.N. fight against global woes
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some 332 local governments worldwide have backed a New York City-led campaign to...
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UNESCO strips English city of Liverpool of its world heritage status
By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) - The English city of Liverpool was removed from UNESCO's list of world heritage sites...
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U.S. accuses Iran of trying to deflect blame for nuclear talks impasse
WASHINGTON/CAIRO (Reuters) -The United States on Saturday accused Tehran of an "outrageous" effort to deflect blame for the impasse in...
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‘Sooner the better’: Argentina says talks with IMF on track
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Talks between Argentina and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are advancing, the Argentine representative to the...
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Libya PM unaware of Russia, Turkey deal on foreign fighters
By Michelle Nichols and Ahmed Elumami NEW YORK (Reuters) - Libya's unity government Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah said on Friday...
Read moreSalvadoran soldiers charged with deaths of four Dutch reporters in 1982
By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Human rights organizations on Friday filed a criminal complaint against 25 El Salvadoran...
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U.N. Security Council asked to authorise more troops for Mali mission
By Paul Lorgerie BAMAKO (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has asked the Security Council to authorise additional troops...
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WHO proposes fresh coronavirus mission to China and lab audits
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization on Friday proposed a second phase of studies into the origins...
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U.N. rights boss calls on Cuba to release protesters
GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet called on Cuba on Friday to release protesters and several...
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China should provide raw data on pandemic’s origins – WHO’s Tedros
GENEVA (Reuters) -The head of the World Health Organisation said on Thursday that investigations into the origins of the COVID-19...
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Pandemic disruptions push millions of Nigerians into hunger
By Libby George and Estelle Shirbon LAGOS/LONDON (Reuters) - Shehu Ismaila Gbadebo has worked as a barber for two decades....
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South Africa violence, looting ebbs but death toll up to 117
By Nqobile Dludla and Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africans counted the cost on Thursday of arson and looting that...
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WHO’s Tedros to set out follow-up study into COVID-19 origins – director Ryan
GENEVA (Reuters) - WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus will share proposals for a phase 2 study into the origins of...
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Germany calls on China to allow further investigations into COVID origins
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Health Minister Jens Spahn called on China to make it possible for investigations into the origins...
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Haitians protest, pay tribute as country grapples with president’s killing
By David Alire Garcia PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Scattered protests broke out in Haiti's capital on Wednesday as gasoline shortages added to...
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