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About 13 days ago

UNICEF Executive Director Warns of Devastating Situation in Gaza

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell has issued a stark warning about the dire situation in Gaza, as ongoing Israeli aggression continues to displace over 1 million children. Alarming reports suggest that many of these children are believed to be missing or buried underneath the rubble of destroyed buildings. Russell recently visited the Gaza Strip and shared her firsthand account of the horrifying scenes she witnessed. In a statement released on UNICEF's website, ...
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Al Manar
Al Manar
About 147 days ago

Senior NATO Admiral Says Ukraine Won’t Be Given Fighter Jets for This Counteroffensive

Ukraine won’t be given fighter jets until its counteroffensive has finished, said Rob Bauer, the Chair of the NATO Military Committee. In an interview with LBC Radio on Monday, the admiral said although the discussion on the aircraft was an important one, it 'will not be solved in the short term.' Nor will training the pilots or training the technicians be available before the Ukrainian counteroffensive, he emphasized. No training for Ukrainian ...
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Al Manar
About 218 days ago

Tensions between Major Powers Reach Historic High, Warns UN Chief

The world is facing an unprecedented crisis in the system of multilateral relations, with tensions between major power reaching the highest ever level, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday at a UN Security Council meeting chaired by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The UN chief stressed that the world has been faced with unprecedented and interrelated crisis and the multilateral system is experiencing the biggest ever pressure since ...
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Al Manar
About 224 days ago

China Expected to Have 1,500 Nuclear Warheads by 2035: NATO Chief

China is expected to possess some 1,500 nuclear warheads by 2035, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday. 'In the longer term, we need to re-think and adapt our approach to a more dangerous and competitive world. And this means engaging with China, which is estimated to have 1,500 warheads by 2035,' he told an arms control conference in Washington. 'As a global power, China has global responsibilities. And Beijing too ...
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Al Manar
About 234 days ago

OIC Stands Firm: Al-Aqsa Mosque Belongs to Muslims, Condemns Israeli Aggression

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has once again condemned the recent Israeli aggression against the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem, emphasizing that it is a holy site exclusively reserved for Muslim worship. The Secretary General of the OIC, Hussein Ibrahim Taha, made the remarks during an extraordinary meeting of the Executive Committee on Saturday, which was convened to discuss the continued Israeli aggression on al-Aqsa. This followed the violent raid ...
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Al Manar
About 243 days ago

World Court Rules U.S. Illegally Froze Some Iranian Assets, Orders Compensation

In a victory for Iran, judges at the International Court of Justice (ICE) on Thursday ruled Washington had illegally allowed courts to freeze assets of some Iranian companies and ordered the United States to pay compensation, the amount of which will be determined later. However, the World Court said it did not have jurisdiction over $1.75 billion in frozen assets from Iran's central bank. In a reaction shared by Iran's foreign ministry ...
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Al Manar
About 280 days ago

NATO Reacts after Moscow Puts Major Nuclear Accord on Ice

Russia should reconsider its decision to suspend the New START nuclear arms control treaty with the US, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said. This comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow was withdrawing from the last remaining nuclear accord with Washington earlier on Tuesday. “I regret the decision by Russia to suspend its participation in a New START program,” Stoltenberg told a press conference. “More nuclear weapons and less ...
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Al Manar
About 286 days ago

WHO Calls Urgent Meeting on Killer Virus

The World Health Organization (WHO) has convened to discuss a new outbreak of a highly infectious virus in Central Africa, looking at several vaccine candidates that could potentially stop the pathogen that causes hemorrhagic fever with a fatality rate of up to 88%. WHO officials held an “urgent” meeting on Tuesday to review the Marburg virus now spreading in Equatorial Guinea, where at least nine people have lost their lives to the ...
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Al Manar
About 316 days ago

NATO Promises More Heavy Weapons for Ukraine

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Saturday that Ukraine would receive more “heavy warfare equipment” from the West in “the near future.” The UK has already pledged tanks to the country, and Germany is under pressure to follow suit. A US-led ‘contact group’ for arming Ukraine will meet on Friday. 'We are in a crucial phase of the war,” Stoltenberg told Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper on Sunday, days after Ukraine lost the ...
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