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Special Report: Iran, the United States and ‘the cup of poison’

August 22, 2019 at 9:06 a.m.

NEW YORK/ANKARA (Reuters) - Five months ago Iran's foreign minister sent an unusual letter to the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It was time, Ali Akbar Salehi wrote according...

Iranian diplomat detained for three months without lawyer: sources

August 24, 2021 at 11:33 a.m.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A senior Iranian diplomat linked to Iran's reformists, who has been detained at Tehran's notorious Evin Prison for three months, has been denied access to his...

U.N. says it can’t accept Russia’s offer of Golan troops

August 24, 2021 at 11:31 a.m.

UNITED NATIONS/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Friday it could not accept Russia's offer to replace peacekeepers from Austria in the Golan Heights because an agreement between Israel...

U.N. cautious about French claims Syrian forces used nerve gas

August 24, 2021 at 11:21 a.m.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. investigators reacted cautiously on Wednesday to France's announcement that laboratory tests proved that President Bashar al-Assad's forces had used nerve gas in Syria's civil war,...

Nations line up to sign U.N. arms trade treaty, U.S. not yet

August 24, 2021 at 11:19 a.m.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Delegates from dozens of countries gathered in New York on Monday to sign the first treaty to regulate the $70 billion global conventional arms trade, but...

Nations line up to sign U.N. arms trade treaty, U.S. not yet

August 24, 2021 at 11:14 a.m.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Delegates from dozens of countries gathered in New York on Monday and signed the first treaty to regulate the $70 billion global conventional arms trade, but...

Russia blocks U.N. Security Council declaration on Syria’s Qusair

August 24, 2021 at 11:09 a.m.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia on Saturday blocked a U.N. Security Council declaration of alarm over the bloody siege of the Syrian town of al-Qusair by Syrian troops and Hezbollah...

Tehran says U.S., not Iran, sponsors terrorism

August 24, 2021 at 11:10 a.m.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran on Friday rejected a U.S. State Department report that accused Tehran of increasing its support for terrorism overseas to levels not seen for two decades,...

UK says informed U.N. chief of more Syria chemical attacks

August 24, 2021 at 10:54 a.m.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Britain has written to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon about additional suspected chemical weapons attacks by Syrian government forces in March and April, British U.N. Ambassador Mark...

UK says informed U.N. chief of more Syria chemical attacks

August 24, 2021 at 10:47 a.m.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Britain has written to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon about additional suspected chemical weapons attacks by Syrian government forces in March and April, British U.N. Ambassador Mark...

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