President, Prosecutor Report on Progress While Raising Alarm over Reports of Genocide Denial by Convicts Released EarlyDelegates in a Security Council debate underlined today the importance of completing, expeditiously but diligently, the work of the m...
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December 11, 2018 Web Desk
Politics
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MARRAKECH, Morocco, 11 December � With a far-reaching Global Compact on Migration now adopted by a majority of countries, it is up to Governments � in partnership with civil society groups, business leaders and migrants themselves � to push back agains...
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December 11, 2018 Web Desk
Entertainment
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MARRAKECH, 10 December - World leaders adopted the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration today, laying out the first-ever global cooperation framework for sharing responsibility to protect the world’s 258 million people on t...
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December 10, 2018 Web Desk
General, News
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Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
December 10, 2018
The below is attributable to Deputy Spokesperson Robert Palladino:
Secretary Michael R. Pompeo met with Senegalese Prime Minister Mohammed Dionne today in Wash...
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December 10, 2018 Web Desk
General
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Press Statement
Michael R. Pompeo
Secretary of State
Washington, DC
December 10, 2018
On behalf of the United States, I congratulate Senegal on the signing of its Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact. The $550 million Senegal Pow...
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December 10, 2018 Web Desk
General
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Efforts to boost global action against climate change are stuttering, as several key nations have objected to a key United Nations-backed report on the impacts of rising temperatures at the COP24 talks in Poland.Many developing nations say they are alr...
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December 10, 2018 Web Desk
Education
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The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) expresses its strong condemnation of Sunday's consecutive, but unrelated, attacks against civilians and facilities in the South of Libya and calls on the Libyan authorities to take prompt and effecti...
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December 10, 2018 Web Desk
General
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