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Russia gives up key northeast towns as Ukrainian forces advance

Moscow abandoned its main bastion in northeastern Ukraine on Saturday, in a sudden collapse of one of the war's principal front lines after Ukrainian forces made a rapid advance.

Reuters

U.N. chief urges Russia, Ukraine to demilitarize nuclear power plant

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres urged Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday to agree a demilitarized perimeter around the Russian-held Zaporozhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

Reuters

In flood-stricken Pakistan, rains damage archeological site

Pakistan's unprecedented monsoon season and flooding have killed hundreds of people and made thousands homeless

The Independent UK

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UN Myanmar envoy says won't return until allowed to meet Suu Kyi

Singapore (AFP) - The UN's Myanmar special envoy on Monday vowed not to visit the country again unless she is allowed to meet ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, after a heavily-criticised trip to meet the junta.

AFP

New U.N. Libya envoy is Senegal's Bathily - statement

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres has appointed Senegalese diplomat and former government minister Abdoulaye Bathily as his Libya envoy, the U.N. Libya mission said in a statement on Saturday.

Reuters

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Former Kyrgyzstan President Named UN Envoy to Afghanistan

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has named former Kyrgyzstan president Roza Otunbayeva as the UN's new special representative for Afghanistan, his office announced Friday. Otunbayeva became interim president of Kyrgyzstan in April 2010 after a bloody uprising forced then-leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev into exile. She relinquished power the following year after…

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Russia Says US Yet to Issue Visas for Delegation to UN Summit

Russia has expressed "alarm" to the UN's secretary-general that the US has yet to issue visas for its delegation to attend a General Assembly session later this month, according to a letter seen Friday by AFP. "None of the 56 Russian representatives from the main team and advance group have…

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UN Chief Appoints Senegal's Bathily to Head UN Libya Mission

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the appointment Friday of former Senegalese minister and UN diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily to be the new UN envoy to Libya after the Security Council gave its approval, ending a nine-month search amid increasing chaos in the oil-rich north African nation. Libya’s transitional government, which opposed Bathily’s…

Asharq Al-Awsat

U.N. chief appoints former Kyrgyzstan president as Afghanistan envoy

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday appointed a former president of Kyrgyzstan as his new special envoy for Afghanistan.

Reuters

Russia says no U.S. visas yet for Lavrov visit to United Nations

Russia has asked for 56 visas from the United States to allow Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his delegation to travel to New York for the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations this month, but so far has received none.

Reuters

UN chief says North Korea has increased repression of rights

The U.N. chief says in a new report that North Korea has increased its repression of the rights and freedoms of its people and the U.N. Security Council should consider referring the country to the International Criminal Court for possible crimes against humanity

The Independent UK

France: UN will approve Senegal's Bathily as Libya UN envoy

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has nominated Abdoulaye Bathily to be the new U.N. envoy to Libya

The Independent UK

US says UN report shows Xinjiang 'genocide' as China irate

Washington (AFP) - The United States said Thursday that a long-awaited UN report reaffirmed its view that China is carrying out genocide against the Uyghur people, as Beijing furiously labeled the world body an accomplice of the West.

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UN head hopes China will ‘take on board’ Xinjiang recommendations

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s spokesman says he was ‘concerned’ by what he read in the damning report.

Reuters

U.N. chief plans to name former Senegalese minister as Libya envoy

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres plans to appoint a former Senegalese minister to lead U.N. efforts to broker peace in Libya, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday.

AFP

UN chief urges China to 'take on board' Xinjiang recommendations

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - United Nations head Antonio Guterres urged China Thursday to follow the recommendations of a UN report that found credible allegations of torture and forced labor in Xinjiang province.

Reuters

U.N. chief hopes China adopts recommendations made in report on Xinjiang – spokesperson

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hopes China will “take on board the recommendations” made in a report by the organization's Human Rights Office on the Xinjiang province, a U.N. spokesperson said on Thursday.

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The Independent UK

In Pakistan, fears of waterborne diseases as floods recede

Officials in Pakistan are raising concerns about the spread of waterborne diseases among thousands of flood victims as waters from powerful monsoon rains began to recede in many parts of the country

Radio France Internationale

West pays tribute to Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader who ended Cold War

Western leaders have paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union, who died on Tuesday in Russia at the age of 91. France’s Emmanuel Macron hailed a "man of peace whose choices have opened a path of freedom for Russians”.

Reuters

U.N. rights chief's tenure ends in disappointment for some China activists

Michelle Bachelet, once a political detainee under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and a doctor for tortured children, pledged to be the champion of victims when she became U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2018.

The Independent UK

Mikhail Gorbachev's death mourned as passing of rare leader

The passing of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and for many the man who restored democracy to many European countries under communist rule, was mourned for the loss of of what world leaders described as a rare leader who brought global change and at the time…

Daily Mirror

Warning Pakistan facing 'monsoon on steroids' as floods submerge a third of the country

The United Nation's Antonio Guterres has warned that Pakistan is facing a 'monsoon on steroids' after over 1,000 people have been killed in the flooding since June

Reuters

U.N. chief to travel to Pakistan to see 'climate catastrophe'

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will travel to Pakistan next week following historic deadly flooding to see "the areas most impacted by this unprecedented climate catastrophe," a U.N. spokesperson said on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

‘Monsoon on steroids’: Today it’s Pakistan, tomorrow it could be your country, warns UN chief

“The scale of needs is rising like the flood waters,” said Antonio Guterres. “It requires the world’s collective and prioritized attention”

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