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AL-MOADDAMYEH, Syria (CCTV/Reuters) — A total of 51 trucks of relief materials with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent on Monday entered Al-Moaddamyeh, a town to the southwest of Syrian capital Damascus. It is learned that five besieged areas in Syria will deliver those much-needed food and medicine to civilians. The relief materials, the third batch to the town in a few weeks, are mainly blankets, soaps, diapers and other daily necessities, and food is not included, […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — Seoul will not shut the door to dialogue with North Korea, South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Tuesday (March 1), but warned that Pyongyang, facing new U.N. sanctions, would be subject to even greater pressure as long as it stuck to its nuclear programme. The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote soon on a resolution drafted by the United States and backed by China, the North’s main ally, […]
NEW York City, United States of the America – The United Nations warned the nations in South East Asia against the rising tide of transnational crime in the said region. The UN added that the illegal trade in the said region is worth almost $1 billion dollars, more than the combined gross domestic product of Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — US President Barack Obama warned Russia and Damacus that the “world will be watching”, hours before a partial truce was due to come into force in war-torn Syria on Saturday. Obama said “the coming days will be critical” for the ceasefire brokered by Moscow and Washington, and agreed to by both President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and Syria’s top opposition grouping. The deal — which excludes the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group and […]
UNITED STATES, United States (AFP) — The UN Security Council is expected to vote Friday on a US-Russian draft resolution endorsing the Syria ceasefire, diplomats said. The 15-member council is set to meet as of 2000 GMT to hear a report from UN envoy Staffan de Mistura and could vote on the measure at that session. The draft text obtained by AFP welcomes the truce as “a step towards a lasting ceasefire” and endorses the US-Russian agreement […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The UN Security Council headed toward a vote on a new US-drafted resolution presented Thursday that would impose the toughest sanctions yet on North Korea over its nuclear and ballistic missile tests. The draft text would require countries to take the unprecedented step of inspecting all cargo to and from North Korea, impose new trade restrictions and bar North Korean vessels suspected of carrying illegal goods from ports. The United States, […]
The General Santos International Airport has been chosen by a United Nations unit as the location for the construction of a disaster response center in Mindanao. The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines announced this in a recent statement sent to reporters. According to the CAAP, the World Food Programme, the UN’s food assistance branch, will fund the construction and manage for two years the center, which will include a warehouse to store disaster relief […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday urged caution about linking the Zika virus with a rare nerve disorder called Guillain-Barre which health officials in Colombia have blamed for three deaths. “Yes, we have seen cases of death from Guillain-Barre syndrome, three have been reported. But I would urge caution” on linking it with Zika, WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said. Colombia last Friday said three people had died after contracting the […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — The United Nations urged Turkey to let in tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing a regime offensive around Aleppo on Tuesday, adding to calls for Russia to end air strikes ahead of fresh peace efforts. Up to 31,000 people have fled Aleppo and surrounding areas since last week, as government forces backed by Russian warplanes press an offensive that threatens to encircle the rebel-held eastern part of Syria’s second city. “The highest […]
The Syria peace talks in Geneva struggled to continue into a second day as the Syrian government did not accept opposition’s precondition for official negotiation. The United Nations (UN) Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, was scheduled to meet with the Syrian main opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) delegation for the second time on Tuesday afternoon at the UN headquarters in Geneva. But the meeting was canceled after the Syrian government denied the opposition’s […]
On the eve of the first Syrian peace talks in two years, the UN Syria envoy made an emotional plea on Thursday (January 28) for a peaceful resolution to the bloody and bitter five-year-long war. However, earlier on Thursday the Syrian opposition said it will not attend peace talks due to begin in Geneva on Friday (January 29), derailing the first attempt in two years to hold negotiations aimed at ending the conflict. An opposition […]
Russia’s air forces carried out 164 sorties in Syria in the past three days, hitting 556 targets, Lieutenant General Sergei Rudskoi, a department chief at Russia’s Defence Ministry, told a news briefing on Monday (December 28). “As of December 25, 164 sorties have been carried out hitting 556 terrorist targets in provinces of Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia, Hama, Homs, Damascus, Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa,” Rudskoi official said. He also said that Russian aviation supported advance towards […]
