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Africa: Burkina Faso does not intend to hire Russian fighters like Mali, according to a US diplomat.

YoopyaOct 27, 2022October 31, 20220

According to US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, Burkina Faso’s interim President Ibrahim Traore has assured US diplomats that he has no intention

World: Racism, climate and divisions top UN agenda as leaders meet

YoopyaSep 22, 2021June 13, 20230

Racism, the climate crisis and the world’s worsening divisions will take center stage at the United Nations on Wednesday, a day after the U.N. chief

Pledges to U.N. fund to fight Ebola more than double to $50 million

YoopyaOct 22, 2014July 15, 20230

(Reuters) – Pledges to a United Nations trust fund calling for nearly $1 billion to fight Ebola in West Africa have more than doubled to

Celebrity: Freida Pinto speaks at girls’ rights summit in UK

YoopyaJul 23, 2014July 25, 20230

LONDON (AP) — Actress Freida Pinto of Slumdog Millionaire fame has joined forces with girls’ rights campaigners in calling for an end to the practice

Africa news: Ebola crisis in West Africa deepens; 500+ dead

YoopyaJul 14, 2014July 16, 20230

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Deep in the forests of southern Guinea, the first victims fell ill with high fevers. People assumed it was the perennial

UN News: UN chief warns of massive sectarian Iraq violence

YoopyaJun 17, 2014July 16, 20230

GENEVA (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is warning that sectarian violence could blow up to huge proportions in Iraq and beyond as Iraq’s instability

International weapons experts leave Syria, U.S. prepares attack

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 21, 20240

(Reuters) – U.N. experts left Syria on Saturday after investigating a poison gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians, and the United States said it was planning

Al Qaeda claims responsibility for Iraq bombings

YoopyaAug 30, 2013April 21, 20240

(Reuters) – An al Qaeda affiliate claimed responsibility for a series of bombings in Baghdad and other areas of Iraq in retaliation for the execution of Sunni

U.S. looks into possible chemical weapons use in Syria

YoopyaApr 19, 20130

(Reuters) – U.S. intelligence officials are looking into the possibility that chemical weapons may have been used in Syria in a limited form, although there is no

From Albania to Zambia, one nation was on the minds of all others at UN assembly: Syria

kiemtarOct 2, 2012October 2, 20120

UNITED NATIONS — After countless speeches, meetings and behind-the-scenes discussions, the unending war in Syria remained the unsolved problem that loomed over this year’s gathering