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31.01.2024 16:01 Twenty international aid groups expressed support Monday for the United Nations' Palestinian relief agency, as several major donors suspended support following the revelation that a dozen staffers may have been involved in the October 7 terror attack inside Israel.

31.01.2024 16:01 Ongoing hostilities across the Gaza Strip have been "particularly intense" in the southern city of Khan Younis, UN humanitarians warned on Monday, as the UN agency for Palestinians, UNWRA, reported that its shelters were now four times over-capacity.

31.01.2024 16:01 The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Monday he believes war crimes have been committed by both sides in the Darfur region of Sudan since fighting erupted between rival generals in mid-April.

31.01.2024 16:01 Hong Kong officially launched the public consultation process regarding the Article 23 legislation on Tuesday, which is considered a necessary step to enhance national security law's enforcement and effectively prevent activities that compromise national security.

31.01.2024 16:01 The courts of mainland and Hong Kong may recognize and enforce reciprocally effective judgments in civil and commercial matters after a new arrangement came into effect on Monday.

31.01.2024 16:01 A top Chinese diplomat said Beijing would "earnestly study" 428 recommendations for addressing human rights submitted by U.N. members, calling them "objective and balanced."

31.01.2024 16:01 China's human rights record faced rare public scrutiny at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva last week, and while Beijing was able to lobby some countries from the Global South to praise human rights conditions in the country, analysts and advocates say its charm offensive has had a limited effect.

31.01.2024 16:01 The Chinese mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region jointly implemented an arrangement on Monday allowing the mainland and the HKSAR to recognize and enforce each other's judgments in civil and commercial court cases, which is hailed as an important milestone and considered as conducive to enhance Hong Kong's status as international legal service and dispute resolution center.

31.01.2024 16:01 A delegation of U.S. officials is in Beijing this week for talks with their Chinese counterparts about resumed cooperation on ending illicit outflows from China of precursors for the synthetic opioid fentanyl, which was suspended amid frosty relations in 2022.

31.01.2024 16:01 Regional resistance groups do not take orders from Iran, nor does the Islamic Republic have a role in their decisions to carry out retaliatory operations in defense of the Palestinian people, says Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan'ani.

31.01.2024 16:01 Junta forces recently killed five residents during a raid on a village in northwestern Myanmar's Sagaing region, one of several recent attacks that signals a resumption of the military's brutality in the area, local residents said.

31.01.2024 16:01 The Karenni Nationalities Defense Force captured a mineral-rich city in northeast Myanmar, the group announced, saying most junta troops fled from checkpoints and camps on Friday, two days before the ethnic army moved in.

31.01.2024 16:01 Pakistan and Iran agreed Monday to broaden political and security cooperation to confront terrorism after exchanging unprecedented missile strikes earlier this month against alleged militant bases in each other's territories.

31.01.2024 16:01 Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Iran and Pakistan are committed to improving their relations and will never allow terrorists to endanger the security of the two nations.

31.01.2024 16:01 The Council today renewed for a further 6 months its restrictive measures in view of the Russian Federation's continuing actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine, until 31 July 2024.