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I. Blinken to UN’s Yemen envoy: No military solution to the conflict https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/15/us-secretary-of-state-blinken-spoke-to-un-special-envoy-for-yemen II. ‘We cannot be wasteful’: Syrian crisis spurs aid innovations https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/3/15/we-cannot-be-wasteful-syrian-crisis-spurs-aid-innovations III. Iran tells UN it was not behind attacks on US interests in Iraq https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/15/iran-tells-un-it-was-not-behind-attacks-on-us-interests-in-iraq IV. COVID-19 has exposed endemic gender inequality, Guterres tells UN Women’s commission https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/03/1087392 V. World’s crime fighters push back against COVID-19’s ‘divisions and inequalities’ https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/03/1087252 |
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