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Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the 25th death anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic, in Tehran June 4, 2014. (REUTERS/leader.ir/Handout via Reuters)
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Syrian Civil Defense workers evacuate children from a building following a reported airstrike by government forces in a rebel-held neighborhood in Aleppo on April 14, 2015. (AFP Photo/Karam Al-Masri)
UN envoy to start talks in May on new Syria initiative
United Nations, AP—The UN special envoy to Syria will begin consulting with key players to try to relaunch political negotiations aimed at ending the country’s civil war now in its fifth year, the United Nations said Tuesday. In late March, Secretary-General Ban...Caption:
A man drives his taxi past a Cultural Center in Havana, Cuba, on April 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
Cubans hail removal from US list of state terrorism sponsors
Havana, AP—Cuban officials and ordinary citizens alike hailed the island’s removal from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, saying the move by President Barack Obama heals a decades-old insult to national pride and clears the way to swiftly restore...Caption:
The Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin abstains from a vote in the United Nations Security Council attempting to halt the escalating conflict in Yemen in New York April 14, 2015. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)
UN imposes arms embargo targeting Yemen’s Houthis; Russia abstains
United Nations, Reuters—The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday imposed an arms embargo targeting the Iran-allied Houthi rebels who rule most of Yemen and blacklisted the son of the country’s former president and a Houthi leader after council veto-power...Caption:
The Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin abstains from a vote in the United Nations Security Council attempting to halt the escalating conflict in Yemen in New York April 14, 2015. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)