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22.03.2024 14:20 U.N.-appointed international legal experts who investigated Iran's suppression of a women's rights movement that erupted in September 2022 are appealing for more time to do their work, but objections from Tehran's allies could terminate their mission next month.

22.03.2024 14:20 Pakistan said Thursday that it does not need a waiver from U.S. sanctions to build its portion of a pipeline to import natural gas from Iran.

22.03.2024 14:20 After thirteen years of conflict in Syria, a continuing political stalemate threatens to prolong the suffering of millions and hinder efforts to bring about peace, the UN Special Envoy for the country said on Thursday.

22.03.2024 14:20 As the conflict in Syria entered its fourteenth year, the "tragic reality" was that developments are going in the wrong direction across all fronts, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the country warned the Security Council today, as members echoed his urgent calls on Damascus and other actors to unblock the persisting political impasse.

22.03.2024 14:20 South Africa's governing party has gone to court to try stop a newly created rival party from contesting May elections.

22.03.2024 14:20 The head of the United States Indo-Pacific Command, Admiral John Aquilino, said Wednesday that contrary to a recent news report, there are no American special forces personnel permanently stationed on Taiwan's outlying Kinmen Island.

22.03.2024 14:20 The first Ukrainian pilots to have undergone intensive training under the guidance of Royal Air Force instructors have graduated from flight school.

22.03.2024 14:20 Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant yesterday regarding the negotiations for the release of hostages and a temporary ceasefire, according to a Pentagon news release.

22.03.2024 14:20 A suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt outside a bank in the Afghan city of Kandahar early on March 21 as Taliban employees waited for their salaries.

22.03.2024 14:20 The situation in the gang-ravaged capital of Haiti has gone from worrying to "extremely alarming" as conditions in Port-au-Prince continue to worsen amid growing hunger and serious shortages in hospitals to treat gunshot victims, said the UN Humanitarian Coordinator there on Thursday.

22.03.2024 14:20 Today, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Wendy Carolina Morales Urbina, Nicaragua's Attorney General,for being complicit in the Ortega-Murillo regime's oppression. Today's action, taken pursuant to Executive Order 13851, as amended, targets a key actor in the Nicaraguan regime's unjust persecution of political prisoners and civil society within the country.

22.03.2024 14:20 China's Special Representative on Eurasian Affairs Li Hui who just concluded the second round of shuttle mediation between Russia, Ukraine and other European countries delivered a briefing in Beijing on Friday, saying that China has communicated with Switzerland on a potential peace talk conference, and that any peace talks should be recognized by both Ukraine and Russia.

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22.03.2024 14:20 The death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 31,988, the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza announced Thursday.

22.03.2024 14:20 Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday called for a peace agreement between Hamas and Israel in the war-torn Gaza Strip.