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December 21, 2017 5:55 PM
South Africa's ruling party says, the country's embassy in Israel should be downgraded to a liaison office to show support for the Palestinians. <br/><br/>The African National Congress said late yesterday that delegates to a national party meeting endorsed the proposal to the g...
December 21, 2017 2:12 PM
US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut off financial aid to countries that back a United Nations resolution opposing the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. <br/><br/>Mr. Trump told reports at the White House that many countries take hundreds of millions of dollar...
December 21, 2017 12:09 PM
Myanmar denies entry of UN special rapporteur. A United Nations human rights investigator Yanghee Lee has disclosed that she had been barred from visiting Myanmar to assess the human rights of minority Rohingya Muslims there. <br/><br/>UN special rapporteur Yanghee Lee on Wednesday relea...
December 21, 2017 11:19 AM
US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut off financial aid to countries that back a United Nations resolution opposing the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. <br/><br/>Mr. Trump told reports at the White House that many countries take hundreds of millions of dollar...
December 21, 2017 8:51 AM
The United States has imposed sanctions on five Russians, including the leader of Chechnya, under a US human rights law that has been a major irritant between Washington and Moscow. <br/><br/>The five Russians were targeted under the Magnitsky Act, passed by Congress in 2012 in response ...
December 21, 2017 8:51 AM
In Iran, a magnitude 5(point)2 earthquake jolted a town near the capital Tehran. According to state television, the quake hit Malard, about 40 kilometers southwest of Tehran, at 23:28 yesterday local time. Its depth was 7 kilometers. <br/><br/>While Iranian state TV put its magnitude at ...
December 21, 2017 8:50 AM
Switzerland has said it was extending by a year a freeze on the assets of ousted Presidents Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia and Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine. <br/><br/>A government statement read, the purpose of this decision is to support the judicial cooperation between Switzerland ...
December 21, 2017 7:34 AM
The United Nations General Assembly will hold a rare emergency special session today at the request of Arab and Muslim countries on US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. <br/><br/>Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour said, the 193-member...
December 21, 2017 7:32 AM
Bangladesh minister Obaidul Quader has said that Pakistan is hatching a conspiracy with Rohingya terror groups against Dhaka. <br/><br/>Talking to media persons in Kolkata, he said Pakistan cannot tolerate anything good happening in Bangladesh and Islamabad does not leave any opportunity...
December 21, 2017 6:49 AM
British Prime Minister Theresa May has lost one of her closest allies with the resignation of Damian Green from the UK Cabinet as her First Secretary of State after an investigation found that he had breached the ministerial code. <br/><br/>Green, 61, stepped down after a parliamentary i...
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