In a missile strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, 12 people were killed and another 309 were injured, the Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation said. The Saudi military coalition blamed the attack on Iran-backed Yemeni Houthis, and Donald Trump said the US could join Saudi strikes against the group.

#KingKhalidAirport #DonaldTrump #UN #SaudovskajaAravia #Houthis #erriad

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The Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem «Navi» Pillay for efforts to advance peace and international law. The committee said that Pillay’s commitment to universal legal principles and her firm moral compass had been a constant feature of her career.

#InternationalCriminalCourt #NavanethemPilley #NobelPeacePrize #NobelCommittee #UN

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Ethiopia and Eritrea have severed diplomatic relations amid renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia, where more than 50 people have been killed since last week. On Thursday, Addis Ababa closed its embassy in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, and ordered 10 Eritrean diplomats to leave the country within 48 hours; Asmara announced a reciprocal response.

#Africa #Wars #UN #Tigray #Eritrea #Ethiopia

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Problems with transporting agricultural products via the Black Sea have so far not led to a food crisis on the scale of spring 2022, but they have already caused the fastest price increase since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Bloomberg Agriculture Spot Index rose by 13.1% in Q3 and reached its highest level since Q1 2022, when it gained 19.5%.

#bloomberg #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #graindeal #acrisis #UN #food #statistics #Turkey #BlackSeaFleet

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Sweden’s state commission on truth concerning the Sámi has called on the government to apologize for the harm and injustice done to the Sámi people and to launch a national process of redress and reconciliation. Separately, it urged that apologies be urgently made to elderly Sámi who were sent as children to separate «nomad schools» and other boarding institutions.

#InternationalLabourOrganization #UN #Sami #Sápmi #CerkovShvecii #Sweden

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South Korea demanded an apology and «responsible measures» from North Korea after a mine explosion on September 21 that injured three South Korean soldiers. A joint investigation with the UN Command found a live North Korean anti-personnel mine south of the military demarcation line.

#odd #UN #Incidents #Southside

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Ukraine returned 14 children from the part of Kherson region controlled by the Russian army, said the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin. Among them were four boys and 10 girls aged six to 17.

#VladimirPutin #InternationalCriminalCourt #UN #Russia #Ukraine #Khersonregion

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The administration of South Korean President Lee Jae-myung demanded an apology from Ukraine after Kyiv publicly said it had handed Seoul two prisoners of war from the DPRK, that is, North Korea. In Seoul, they said this undermined trust between the countries and could damage bilateral relations.

#VladimirZelensky #WarinUkraine #odd #UN #policy #Ukraine #Southside

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German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, after meeting with Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, said that it was not possible to reach agreement on key issues. He stressed that Europe must take part in the dialogue with Moscow and said that he had proposed de-escalation.

#Vadeful #Germany #Lavrov #UN #Russia #Ukraine

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On Thursday night, Russian forces launched a missile strike on Kyiv. According to preliminary data, at least two people were killed and another eight were injured.

#VitaliKlitschko #VladimirZelensky #Kiev #LindseyGraham #UN #Russia

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OpenAI will provide the government of Ukraine with the Daybreak AI-based cyber defense system for free. It is intended to help protect civilian infrastructure, including hospitals and power plants, from cyberattacks, and through it Kyiv will gain access to the GPT 5.6 Sol version for cyber defense.

#Anthropic #CERTUA #Daybreak #openai #UN #Ukraine

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Sergey Lavrov, at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine, said that Russia will not suspend the war against Ukraine during negotiations. Before that, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, he met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

#MarcoRubio #UN #Russia #SergeyLavrov #UNSecurityCouncil #Ukraine

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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at the UN General Assembly in New York that he would like the Russian-Ukrainian war to end while preserving Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. He said that Turkey continues contacts with the parties for the sake of maritime safety in the Black Sea, food security, and preventing the war from spreading to a wider area.

#WarinUkraine #UN #RecepTayyipErdogan #Turkey #Ukraine

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US and Ukrainian Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. After the talks, Zelensky said that Ukraine is ready to stop strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure, provided Moscow reciprocates.

#VladimirZelensky #WarinUkraine #DonaldTrump #UN #Russia #USA #Ukraine

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Over three days in Yemen, according to reports from the sides, up to 169 people were killed in clashes between the Houthis and government forces over strategic heights on the Red Sea coast. Thousands of residents are leaving the fighting areas, and clashes continue in several provinces and near the Kahbub mountains.

#BabelMandeb #Yemen #RedSea #UN #SaudiArabia #Houthis

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in an article for Bloomberg, called for a sweeping reform of the UN: abolish the veto in the Security Council, abandon permanent membership, and strengthen the powers of the General Assembly. He called this the central element of the reform.

#bloomberg #Ankara #UNGeneralAssembly #UN #UNSecurityCouncil #Erdogan

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Президент Украины Владимир Зеленский и директор ЦРУ США Джон Рэтклифф встретились в аэропорту Шэннон в Ирландии 21 сентября. О встрече сообщило Reuters со ссылкой на двух неназванных собеседников, которым она известна.

#ShannonAirport #VladimirZelensky #JohnRatcliffe #Ireland #UN #cia

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Finnish President Alexander Stubb told POLITICO on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York that Russia is not seeking a full-scale war with NATO, but is trying to intimidate Europe and slow support for Ukraine. He urged Europeans not to overestimate the threats and not to respond excessively to hybrid attacks.

#AlexanderStubb #VladimirZelensky #Germany #NATO #UN #Russia

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Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kyiv is ready for de-escalation if Russia stops strikes on Ukraine’s energy sector, critical infrastructure, and food exports. In response to Donald Trump’s call to stop attacks on Russian refineries, he wrote on X that under such conditions Ukraine is ready to discuss its own steps as well.

#VladimirZelensky #DonaldTrump #oilrefinery #UN #Russia #Ukraine

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UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Russia Mariana Katsarova presented a report on September 21 on Russia’s transnational repression against its own citizens and other people abroad who are unwelcome to the Kremlin. According to the report, in the three years since the start of the war, the number of documented cases of such persecution has increased eightfold and reached nearly 400.

#Interpol #Kazakhstan #UN #Russia #FSB

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