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UN World Food Program Warns That the Number of People Exposed to Severe Food Shortages May Double…
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"COVID-19 represents a potential catastrophe for the millions of poor people who are already at stake," said Aref Hussein, chief economist and director of research, evaluation and monitoring at the World Food Program.
It is…
Trump Confirms Studying the Possibility of Stopping the Purchase of Oil From Saudi Arabia
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"We will study this," Trump told a news conference on Monday evening when asked if it was possible to stop buying oil from Riyadh.
Trump added, "Yes, we are in a negative situation, but not for a long time. A lot of people…
America Rejects Excluding Humanitarian Assistance From Its Imposed Sanctions: Russian Foreign…
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The Russian "TASS" agency quoted Lavrov as saying that the unilateral illegal sanctions represent a "strong strike" to the citizens of a group of countries, led by Iran, Syria and North Korea.
According to Lavrov, these…
An Emergency Parliamentary Session in Iraq to Discuss US Violations and Corona
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The representative of the Badr Parliamentary Bloc, Karim Aliwi, revealed, on Saturday, the signatures of more than twenty deputies to hold an emergency session of the House of Representatives. The session is meant to be held…
Record Number of 168 Million People Will Need UN Assistance in 2020
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A record number of 168 million people, or about one in 45 worldwide, will need assistance in 2020, the United Nations said on Wednesday, adding they would need $29 billion to provide that help.
In 2018, the United…
US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II
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First published in November 2015
GR Editor’s Note
Let us put this in historical perspective: the commemoration of the War the End All Wars acknowledges that 15 million lives were lost in the course of World War…
Germany Rejects US Anti-Iran Maritime Coalition. Will Other EU Member States “Follow Suit”?
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Trump regime hardliners are struggling to enlist anti-Iran Operation Sentinel maritime coalition partners.
Britain’s limited Persian Gulf naval presence so far is separate from the Trump regime’s. The size of its…
Iran begins gasoline export with first shipment to Afghanistan
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Iran has officially kicked off a long-anticipated program for gasoline export with a shipment to neighboring Afghanistan as authorities seek to offset the impacts of US sanctions on the oil industry through the sale of…
Britain asks European allies to join naval mission in the Gulf
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Britain has approached several of its European allies as it gauges interest in a plan to launch a naval mission in the Gulf, senior diplomats told Reuters news agency, but Iran rejected the idea.
The UK…
Kuwaiti Paper: US Not Able to Decrease Iran’s Deterrence Power by Maximum Pressure
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A leading Kuwaiti paper wrote that the US maximum pressure on Iran merely pressures the Middle-East as Iran has come out of difficulties and sanctions safely in the past 40 years and developed its missile and nuclear…