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Concern at undetected cases as WHO holds coronavirus talks

May 13, 2019 at 11:57 p.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - International health experts began urgent talks on the Middle East coronavirus (MERS) on Tuesday amid concerns about larger numbers of milder infections possibly going undetected, the World...

U.N. rights forum condemns Hezbollah role in Syria

August 24, 2021 at 11:48 a.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday condemned the use of all foreign fighters in Syria's civil war, including Lebanese Hezbollah militants backing the government, but stopped...

U.N. says at least 93,000 killed in Syria, toll probably higher

December 24, 2018 at 2:34 a.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The death toll in Syria reached at least 93,000 at the end of April, but the true number of victims from the violence now in its third...

Gaza’s viability at stake, U.N. rights envoy says

August 24, 2021 at 11:39 a.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations human rights investigator accused Israel on Monday of imposing collective punishment on 1.75 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and said that the...

North Korean defector’s “impossible” dream of closing prison camps

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

GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea's best-known defector, Shin Dong-hyuk, dreams of making the "impossible" happen one day - ridding his secretive homeland of the kind of brutal prison camps he...

Red Cross pushing for access to Syria’s besieged Qusair

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

GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Monday it was still seeking a formal Syrian response to its request for urgent access to the besieged...

Britain must investigate torture in Iraq, Afghanistan: U.N

August 24, 2021 at 11:06 a.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations torture watchdog called on Britain on Friday to widen and speed up investigations into allegations that British forces tortured detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan...

U.N. rights chief urges halt to flow of arms, fighters to Syria

November 3, 2021 at 6:13 p.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations' human rights chief urged countries on Wednesday not to supply Syria with weapons and to press both sides to find a political end to...

UN rights body condemns Syria at heated debate

August 24, 2021 at 10:48 a.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations urged Syria on Wednesday to cease heavy weapons attacks on civilians in the rebel-held town of Qusair, in a heated debate that underlined deep...

U.N. rights chief urges halt to flow of arms, fighters to Syria

December 24, 2018 at 2:12 a.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations' human rights chief urged countries on Wednesday not to supply Syria with weapons and to press both sides to find a political end to...

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