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20 Bodies Found on a Boat Floating Off the Coast of Turks and Caicos Island: 'A Tragic Situation'
Officials said the 20 "unexplained" human remains were found in the Turks and Caicos Islands waters ... Crashes and Overturns in New Jersey This Country Has Been Named the Happiest in the World ...
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Sudan facing ‘the abyss’ as mass starvation looms, UN warns
More than 600,000 people in Sudan are “on the brink of starvation” as famine stalks the war-torn country, the United Nations has warned. UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Thursday that ...
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UN human rights office resumes activities in Venezuela despite Maduro clash
Commissioner Volker Turk indicates he is ‘deeply concerned’ about the violence following Venezuela’s contested election.
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UN General Assembly approves Volker Turk as UN human rights chief
UNITED NATIONS, September 9. /TASS/. The UN General Assembly on Thursday approved Austria’s Volker Turk as the next UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The decision was passed without a vote.
UN Urges Halt To Military Operations, Full Aid Quake-Hit Myanmar
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk stressed on Friday the need to halt all military operations and focu ...
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India criticizes UN human rights chief for ‘unfounded’ remarks on Kashmir and Manipur
India on Monday strongly rebuked UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk for his remarks on Kashmir and Manipur ... from reality and ignored the democratic resilience of the country. “It is ...