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US President Donald Trump shakes hands after signing a proclamation during an event about Martin Luther King Jr. in the Roosevelt Room of the White House January 12, 2018 in Washington, DC. ( AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski)
January 12, 2018, 3:21 pm
Trump denies calling Haiti, African nations ‘shithole countries’
US president admits to using ‘tough language,’ slams bipartisan immigration proposal which would allow entry to ‘people from high crime countries’
By AP and AFP
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting on prison reform in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, January 11, 2018. (AFP/Saul Loeb)
January 12, 2018, 2:15 pm
UN says Trump slur on ‘shithole’ countries is ‘shocking’ and ‘racist’
Spokesman Rupert Colville: US president’s comments open the door to ‘humanity’s worst side’ and ‘go against universal values’
By Agencies
This Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016 photo, released by the International Committee for the Red Cross, shows members of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent carrying a patient on a stretcher out of a medical facility in the Old City of Aleppo, Syria. (Syrian Arab Red Crescent/Noor Hazouri via AP)
December 9, 2016, 2:26 pm
Civilians stream out of crumbling rebel enclave in Aleppo
Regime opponents have collapsed in the face of a broad government offensive and intensive aerial campaign
By Zeina Karam
Illustrative: 2 Muslim women wearing a chador as they enjoy their time with other people a beach of Narbne, southern France, June 4, 2015. (AFP/Raymond ROIG)
August 30, 2016, 2:58 pm
UN hails suspension of France’s burkini ban, slams ‘stigmatization’
Human rights body says the prohibition discriminates against women and fuels religious intolerance against Muslims
By AFP
People search for survivors under the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, July 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
July 15, 2015, 4:34 am
In Yemen, anti-rebel forces in south take over Aden airport
UN-brokered ceasefire fails to take hold; death toll in four months of fighting said to reach 1,670
By Ahmed al-Haj
Syrians stand near the bodies of people who were killed by a Syrian government airstrike outside a field hospital in Aleppo, Syria, on December 15, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center)
August 22, 2014, 1:59 pm
UN puts Syria death toll at over 191,000
International body’s top human rights official says number ‘is probably an underestimate’
By AP
A demolished house in an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev, December 2010 (photo credit: Jorge Novominsky/Flash90)
September 25, 2013, 1:26 pm
UN raps Israel for house demolitions
High Commissioner for Human Rights says ‘forced evictions’ prohibited under international human rights law
By ToI Staff
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay (photo credit: CC-BY Antônio Cruz, Wikimedia Commons)
December 4, 2012, 10:03 pm
UN human rights chief urges Iran to improve conditions of jailed activist
Navi Pillay expresses concern for life of Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has been on a hunger strike since mid-October
This frame grab made from an amateur video provided by Syrian activists on Monday purports to show the massacre in Houla on Friday that killed more than 100 people, many of them children (photo credit: AP/Amateur Video via AP video)
May 29, 2012, 1:15 pm
UN: Most of 108 killed in Syria were executed at close range
Spokesman says ‘entire families were shot in their houses’
Syrian women walk by a member of the Free Syrian Army in Idlib on Monday (photo credit: Rodrigo Abd/AP)
March 7, 2012, 12:52 am
Assad says Syrians are ‘confronting foreign-backed terrorism’
US pushing for UN Security Council to take action
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. (Wissam Nassar/Flash90)
From the WebFebruary 10, 2012, 5:01 pm
UN Human Rights office: Syrian officials should be tried at ICC
Situation in Syria is so dire that the UN has stopped trying to keep count of the dead
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