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Iran Begins Construction of New Nuclear Reactor

par This Is Beirut, 05/02 20:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Iran announced on Monday the start of construction for a new nuclear research reactor in Isfahan. This comes shortly after the announcement of the construction of a nuclear power plant complex in the southern region. Iran said on Monday that it had started building a new nuclear research reactor in Isfahan, days after it announced it was ...

Iran Marks Islamic Revolution With Demand to Expel Israel From UN

par This Is Beirut, 11/02 14:13 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Iran marked 45 years since its Islamic revolution with a ceremony on Sunday in which President Ebrahim Raisi condemned arch foe Israel over the Gaza war and demanded it be expelled from the United Nations. Since Iran's 1979 revolution that overthrew the US-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the region's main Shiite Muslim power has had deeply ...

Iran's Crushing Protests in 2022 Led to "Crimes Against Humanity”

par This Is Beirut, 08/03 13:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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According to a UN-mandated expert report published on Friday, March 8, the crackdown on the protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran in September 2022 led to crimes against humanity. The violent repression of peaceful protests and discrimination against women and girls by Tehran led to serious rights violations, many amounting to ...

'Global Backlash against Women's Rights' Warns UN Chief

par This Is Beirut, 08/03 18:39 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Friday that a "backlash" against women's rights was threatening progress across the world. He called the situation facing women in Afghanistan "the most egregious example" with girls excluded from "much of the education system." He also singled out sexual violence against women in Sudan, ...

Iran's Widespread Human Rights Abuses Criticized at UN Meeting

par This Is Beirut, 18/03 15:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Several countries criticized Iran's widespread human rights abuses in a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council on Monday. Several countries condemned on Monday the extent of human rights violations in Iran during a UN meeting, denouncing the sharp increase in death sentences and executions. A handful of nations, including Russia, China and Cuba, ...

End War's 'Nightmare', UN chief Says at Gates of Gaza

23/03 16:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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UN chief Antonio Guterres, on a visit to the doorstep of Gaza, on Saturday said the world has seen enough of the war's horrors and appealed for a ceasefire to allow in more aid. "Palestinians in Gaza -- children, women, men -- remain stuck in a non-stop nightmare," he said on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing where truckloads of aid trickle ...

Russian Veto Halts UN Monitoring of North Korea Sanctions

par This Is Beirut, 29/03 10:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Russia blocked on Thursday the renewal of a panel of UN experts monitoring international sanctions on North Korea, weeks after the body said that it was investigating reports of arms transfers between Moscow and Pyongyang. The move was met with a flurry of criticism, including by South Korea's Foreign Ministry, which said that Russia had made an ...

Iranian President Says Israel's Syria Attack 'Will Not Go Unanswered'

par This Is Beirut, 02/04 12:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Iran's President Ebrahim Raissi condemned on Tuesday a deadly air strike blamed on Israel against his country's consular annex in Damascus, saying the "cowardly crime will not go unanswered." "After repeated defeats and failures against the faith and will of the Resistance Front fighters, the Zionist regime has put blind assassinations on its ...

UNSC: Israel and Iran Accuse Each Other of Threatening Peace

par This Is Beirut, 15/04 02:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Israel and Iran accused one another Sunday at the United Nations of being the main threat to peace in the Middle East, each calling on the Security Council to impose sanctions on their sworn enemy. "The mask is off. Iran, the number one global sponsor of terror, has exposed its true face as the destabilizer of the region and the world," Israel's ...

Cholera Spreading in Houthi-Controlled Yemen, UN Worried

par This Is Beirut, 16/04 12:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Cholera is spreading in Houthi-controlled Yemen, which is worrying UN authorities whose humanitarian response fund has struggled to attract donors. The United Nations expressed concern on Monday about the uptick in cholera cases in Yemen, especially in areas of the war-ravaged country controlled by the Houthis, where 75 people have died since ...

EU Provides $125mn for Yemen NGOs, to Bridge $2.3bn Shortfall

par This Is Beirut, 07/05 14:56 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The EU on Tuesday announced $125 million for NGOs and UN agencies helping people in Yemen, a day after aid groups appealed for billions to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in the country. The money is directed at the "most vulnerable in Yemen", the European Commission said after a Brussels meeting on Yemen bringing together donors, UN officials ...

UN Official Killed in Gaza After UN Informed Israel of His Movement

par This Is Beirut, 14/05 15:39 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The United Nations said Tuesday that it had informed the Israeli authorities of the movements of a vehicle carrying UN staff which was hit in southern Gaza, killing a UN official. One UN security services member was killed and another wounded in the attack on Monday, the United Nations said, marking the first death of a UN employee in Gaza since ...

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