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YEMEN (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The conditions of life in Yemen have become "catastrophic" in a three-year-old conflict as the threat of famine and cholera increases in a country experiencing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, a UN official warned on Tuesday. "After three years...

UNITED NATIONS (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Russia's veto of a resolution on the conflict in Yemen at the UN Security Council condemning Iran is a new failure for the United States, Tehran said on Tuesday. Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Monday that was...

UNITED NATIONS (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The UN Security Council at the second attempt unanimously extended for a year the sanctions regime against Yemen. The resolution was proposed by the Russian delegation, reports RIA. Initially, the Security Council considered a draft prepared by the United Kingdom....

UNITED NATIONS (VOP TODAY NEWS) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for a new nuclear weapons elimination initiative, sparking a cautious response from representatives of nuclear powers over decades of dispute over nuclear disarmament. Speaking at a disarmament conference at UN headquarters in Geneva,...

UNITED NATIONS / SYRIA (VOP TODAY NEWS) - At least 30 people, including children and women, have been killed in military operations in the eastern enclave in the past 48 hours, the UN spokeswoman said, adding that the opposition also continued to bomb Damascus. "The United...

UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The UN Security Council extended the sanctions regime against Yemen, a resolution on the technical extension of sanctions was proposed by the Russian delegation. The document received 15 votes in support. Voting on the proposed by Russia project took place after...

UNITED NATIONS (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Russia blocked a draft resolution on the Yemen in the UN Security Council, which fixes Iran's deliveries of weapons to Houthi rebels. The document proposed by Great Britain was put to a vote on Monday. The United Kingdom has prepared a...

UNITED NATIONS - (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Russia, on Monday vetoes the United Nations draft resolution pressuring Iran over Yemen. The document proposed by Great Britain was put to a vote on Monday. The United Kingdom has prepared a draft resolution that extends the sanctions regime...

UNITED NATIONS / RUSSIA (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Russia is preparing to use a veto on Monday to thwart an attempt by the United States, Britain and France on the UN Security Council to criticize Iran for its weapons access to the Houthis in Yemen. The...

SYRIA (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Iran said pro-Damascus forces would continue attacks on an enclave controlled by opposition forces near the Syrian capital as fighting raged there in defiance of a UN resolution demanding a 30-day truce in Syria. Turkey also said its military operations in...

TURKEY (VOP TODAY NEWS) -  A unanimous UN Security Council resolution on a 30-day ceasefire in Syria will not affect his country's crackdown on Kurdish guerrillas in the Afrin region, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said. The UN Security Council resolution on Saturday followed...

UNITED NATIONS (VOP TODAY NEWS) - In response to a draft resolution drafted by the United Kingdom to condemn Iran, accused of violating the arms embargo in Yemen, Russia presents to the Security Council another project that does nothing no reference to Iran. The Security Council,...

SYRIA, Sunday, February 25 (VOP) - Syrian forces renewed their shelling of the eastern Ghouta on Sunday, albeit less than in the past few days, despite a resolution adopted by the UN Security Council on Saturday evening demanding a truce "without delay" in an attempt...

SYRIA, Sunday, February 25 (VOP) - The Syrian regime renewed its raids on the besieged eastern Ghouta on Sunday despite a UN Security Council resolution on Saturday demanding a truce without delay in the latest strongholds of opposition factions near Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for...

UNITED NATIONS, Sunday, February 25 (VOP) - The UN Security Council on Saturday approved a resolution calling for a 30-day truce in Syria to allow aid and medical evacuation. Russia, Syria's ally, backed the resolution after a series of last-minute negotiations. The vote comes as the...

SYRIA, Sunday, February 25 (VOP) - Syrian warplanes bombed eastern Ghouta on Saturday evening, minutes after the UN Security Council approved a resolution demanding a 30-day ceasefire in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The British-based observatory and two residents of a besieged suburb...

SYRIA, Sunday, February 25 (VOP) - The UN Security Council on Saturday called for a 30-day truce in Syria, while medics in the eastern Syrian region of Ghouta said the shelling was restless for a time allowing them to count bodies in one of the...

SYRIA, Feb. 25 (VOP) - US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley rebuked the UN Security Council that the work on the humanitarian resolution on Syria was going on for too long, she accused Russia of dragging out this process. The UN Security Council on Saturday...

SYRIA - The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on the establishment of a 30-day ceasefire in Syria and further humanitarian operations in the country. The document demands that all parties "immediately stop clashes" and are committed to providing a long humanitarian break for at...

SYRIA - The UN Security Council adopted a resolution on the establishment of a 30-day ceasefire in Syria. The UN Security Council on Saturday adopted a resolution requiring the parties to the conflict in Syria to cease hostilities for at least 30 days to provide humanitarian...