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As the conflict in Sudan enters its third month, humanitarian situation across the country continues to deteriorate, UN relief chief Martin Griffiths said on Thursday.

A secretive real estate agreement by the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem has signed away some 25 percent of the Armenian Quarter of Israel's holy city. Now residents are fighting to hold on to their historic land.

The prosecutor's office in the southwestern Serbian city of Kraljevo on June 16 ordered an investigation of three Kosovo Police officers detained this week in a border area in disputed circumstances.

Statement by Ambassador James Kariuki at the UN Security Council meeting on Mali.

The United Nations refugee agency has pledged its support of Malawi's move to resettle more than 50,000 refugees and asylum-seekers currently living at the overcrowded Dzaleka refugee camp in the central part of the country. Last week, Malawi's government announced it had secured a new site in the northern part of the country to help reduce the number refugees at the Dzaleka camp, which

Nearly 20 states have sought to join the BRICS group of countries as more nations realize the benefits of joining the economic bloc, according to a senior Russian diplomat.

The EU warmly congratulates the people of Guinea-Bissau, the political actors and the election bodies for the calm, peaceful and highly participatory legislative elections that took place on 4 June for which final results were announced yesterday. The prompt acceptance of the results by all the main political leaders marks an important step in the consolidation of Bissau-Guinean democracy and stability.

Vietnamese security forces have arrested more than 50 people accused of being involved in last weekend's deadly attacks on two commune offices in central Dak Lak province, a Ministry of Public Security spokesman told state media on Friday.

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Words are not enough to alleviate the multiple crises afflicting Haiti, said the President of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on Friday, in an appeal for urgent international action.

On 14 June 2023, under the chairmanship of Deputy Chief of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Joint Staff, Air Force Major General Turaly Koishikulov, representatives of interested ministries and agencies of the CSTO member States, the Secretariat and the CSTO United Headquarters held a videoconference to finalise, taking into account the positions received after the internal national coordination, the draft decision of the

Russia has called upon the UN Security Council to facilitate investigations into the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, a Russian diplomat said Thursday.

Vladimir Putin met with President of the United Arab Emirates Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on the sidelines of the 26th St Petersburg International Economic Forum.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated the growing use of national currencies for cross-border exchanges signals the end of the hegemony of the US dollar.

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A Turkish-Kyrgyz educator who was abducted by Turkish agents in Kyrgyzstan in 2021 has been sentenced to 21 years in prison on a charge of "establishing an armed terrorist group," Turkish media reports said on June 16, adding that Orhan Inandi had been "brought to Turkey via an "operation" carried out by the National Intelligence Organization.

'The humanitarian situation in Syria remains critical and continues to deteriorate. Norway will provide approximately NOK 1.7 billion in support to assist those affected by war, earthquakes and a steep rise in food prices in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Türkiye,' said Minister of Foreign Affairs Anniken Huitfeldt.

Tension has been escalating in northern Syria between Turkish forces and Kurdish militants as Russia speaks about a roadmap to restore Syria-Türkiye ties.

An advisory group of political parties and civil society organizations opposed to Myanmar's military junta have condemned the Russian government's political support and continued sale of weapons to the regime.