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Protests Resume In Jordan Despite Resignation of PM

Anti-government protests resumed in Jordan Tuesday despite the resignation of the country's prime minister who had pushed for austerity measures.

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UN ‘Tech Bank’ opens in Turkey, to help poor nations ‘leapfrog development challenges’

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The UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed (right) and Faruk Özlü (centre), Minister of Science, Industry and Technology of Turkey inaugurate the Technology Bank.

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WFP and Egyptian government join efforts to enhance food safety in Egypt

The World Food Programme (WFP) and Egypt’s National Food Safety Authority (NFSA) signed a five-year agreement to raise public awareness on food safety and hygiene as well as building the government’s capacity to ensure access to safe nutritious food on Jun 04, 2018.

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UN Expert: Poverty in US is 'Political Choice'

The Trump administration's crippling policies are forcing poor Americans deeper into poverty, a United Nations human rights investigator has found.

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Florida School Shooting Survivors Announce Voter Registration Push

A group of Florida students who survived a mass shooting at their high school in February said they will spend their summer on a 75-stop bus tour rallying for stricter gun control laws.

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New ODIHR/UNESCO publication aimed at assisting policymakers in addressing anti-Semitism through education

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released a joint publication aimed at assisting policymakers in addressing anti-Semitism through education, at a launch event at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, on June 4.

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Pompeo: 'Real Progress' in Talks With Kim's Deputy on Potential Summit

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said “real progress” had been made in negotiations Thursday with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s top deputy in New York toward holding a potential summit between Kim and President Donald Trump.

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Countries back ‘ambitious and comprehensive’ reform of UN development system

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Secretary-General António Guterres (center) addresses the General Assembly on the repositioning of the UN Development System. To his left is Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and at right is General Assemlby President Miroslav Lajčák.

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Heavy Fighting Traps Civilians in Eastern Libyan City

More than 120,000 people are trapped inside the eastern Libyan city of Derna by heavy fighting between Islamists and forces commanded by General Khalifa Haftar.

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UNHCR and UNDP agree on text of MoU with Myanmar to support the creation of conditions for the return of Rohingya refugees

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and UNDP, the UN Development Programme, on May 31, agreed in Nay Pyi Taw with the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar on the text for the tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). It is planned that the MoU will be signed in the course of the next week, the exact date of which is still to be confirmed.

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