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UNITED NATIONS, Dec 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Abdulla Shahid, president of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), said yesterday that, his first goal for the New Year is to vaccinate the world and achieve vaccine equity, so that normalcy can return to the entire world at an earlier date.

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- The United States and the European Union (EU) must return to a full compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iranian ambassador to the United Nations (UN) told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday.

"Now it is time for the U.S. and the EU to live up to their responsibilities and return to the full compliance with the JCPOA. The choice is theirs. We hope they seize this opportunity," said Majid Takht Ravanchi.

NEW YORK, Dec 13 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday rejected a renewed attempt by the Biden administration to end a policy put in place by former President Donald Trump that forced tens of thousands of migrants to wait in Mexico for the resolution of their U.S. asylum cases.

President Joe Biden, a Democrat, scrapped his Republican predecessor's policy - often referred to as "Remain in Mexico" - soon after taking office in January this year. But after Texas and Missouri sued over the rescission, a federal judge ruled it had to be reinstated.

UNITED NATIONS, December 13. /TASS/: Russia objects to the adoption of a United Nations Security Council resolution linking climate change and security issues, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia said on Monday.

"We are against creating a new area of the Council’s work, which sets generic and automatic links between climate change and international security," he said at a UN Security Council meeting.

"As we have already said, such an approach is unacceptable to us," he stressed.

NEW YORK, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Powerful storms like the ones that tore through parts of the central United States this weekend are the "new normal" in an era of climate change, and the severity, duration and magnitude of the storms this late in the year were "unprecedented," Deanne Criswell, administrator of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), told CNN on Sunday.

NEW YORK, December 11. /TASS/: The US administration prepared a $200 mln package of additional military assistance for Ukraine but held it back despite appeals from the Kiev authorities, NBC News reported, citing sources.

NEW YORK (AP) — Another key accuser at the sex-abuse trial of Ghislaine Maxwell testified Friday that Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein forced themselves on her during a 1996 visit to the financier’s sprawling New Mexico ranch when she was just 16.

Annie Farmer told jurors she accepted an invitation to the ranch hoping that Maxwell and Epstein wanted to help her with academic endeavors. Instead, she said, Maxwell ended up fondling her breasts and Epstein climbed into bed without her permission, she said.

NEW YORK (AP) — Companies of all sizes are rethinking their plans to send workers back to the office as the new omicron variant adds another layer of uncertainty.

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 07 (APP): School closures during the coronavirus pandemic could result in a staggering $17 trillion in lost lifetime earnings for today’s students, according to a UN-backed report.

The projection is among the findings of The State of the Global Education Crisis: A Path to Recovery, published by the World Bank, the UN Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

The figure is calculated in present value, representing roughly 14 per cent of current Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 06 (APP): Disruptions due to the coronavirus pandemic resulted in considerable increases in malaria cases and deaths between 2019 and 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO), a Geneva-based UN agency, said Monday.

However, “the doomsday scenario” projected by the WHO has not materialized,” Dr Pedro Alonso, Director, WHO Global Malaria Programme said at the launch of the UN agency’s annual World Malaria Report in Geneva.