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Palestine considers asking UN to impose deadline on Israeli occupation

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The Palestinian command will demand the United Nations to set Israel a deadline for its occupation of Palestinian territory, as world leaders and Palestinian leadership continues to push for peace in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian leadership is willing “to go to the U.N. Security Council to enforce an end to the (Israeli) occupation”, Wasel Abu Yusef, a senior official …

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UN human rights chief accuses Iraqi extremists of “ethnic cleansing”; Syria ready to work with international community against “terror”

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Syria on Monday said that it was willing to work with the international community against “terrorism” as the United Nations accused extremists in Iraq of conducting an “ethnic and religious cleansing”. UN human rights Chief Navi Pillay leveled the accusations as Kurdish peshmerga forces forced back militants from the Islamic State (IS) northeast of Baghdad only a day after they …

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No Quarter for the Quartet!

Quartet members (l-r) envoy Tony Blair, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton, Secretary of State John Kerry, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at U.N. headquarters in New York, Sept. 27, 2013. (STAN HONDA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

The Quartet was originally set up to persuade a recalcitrant Israel to allow the United Nations to have a role in the peace process. It was also an oblique American token recognition of Russia’s vestigial Great Power status, which allowed it a squeaky wheel in the peace process, if not an actual hand on the helm. Comprising the European Union, …

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UNHCR report highlights adversity faced by separated female Syrian refugees

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On Tuesday, the United Nations warned that thousands of female Syrian refugees were caught in a “spiral of hardship, isolation and anxiety”, either separated from their husbands or widowed, and struggling to survive. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN agency for refugees, said in a new report that the plight of about 145,000 Syrian refugee women …

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Nigeria: Islamic leader invites fellow leaders to pray for kidnapped Boko Haram groups

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On Friday, a Muslim leader in Nigeria announced that he would host a nation-wide day of prayer in Nigeria’s capital city Abuja as a part of the effort to overcome Boko Haram’s lethal insurgency. Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, The Sultan of Sokoto, invited all prominent Nigerian Muslim leaders to pray with him in the National Mosque in Abuja on Sunday. …

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