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NEW YORK, Dec 24 (APP): Half of registered American voters say they think history will view Donald Trump as a “failed” president, according to a new poll released Thursday.

The poll of 1,000 registered voters, carried out by USA TODAY/Suffolk University from Dec. 16 to 20, found stark partisan divides in attitudes towards Trump’s presidency, with many Republicans saying the president should not concede to President-elect Joe Biden, a Democrat.

25 Dec 2020; MEMO: Qatar announced on Thursday that it had notified the United Nations (UN) and the UN Security Council that four Bahraini fighter jets violated its airspace, flying over its territorial waters on 9 December.

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres would be happy with the progress in global climate action, but sad about the lack of international cooperation in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, said his spokesman on Thursday.

Answering an end-of-year question about the UN chief's biggest pride and his biggest regret for 2020, Stephane Dujarric, Guterres' spokesman, quipped: "Look, he is not one to toot his own horn. But I guess that's my job."

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 24 (APP): UN human rights expert has called for Facebook’s Oversight Board to give greater consideration to the rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities before making decisions over controversial content, particularly involving hate speech.

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 22 (APP): The investigation by the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) into Friday’s incident in which Indian troops at the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed Kashmir region fired at a UN vehicle is continuing, according to a UN spokesman.

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 23 (APP): A top UN human rights expert Tuesday urged the departing United States President Donald Tump to pardon Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, while he awaits a decision on his extradition to the US.

Nils Melzer, who monitors torture and other forms of inhuman treatment around the world, issued an open letter to Trump ahead of a British court ruling on January 4 that will determine whether Assange will be extradited from Britain to the United States.

Australian national Assange is being held in the Belmarsh high security prison in London.

NEW YORK, Dec 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) —  At least 21 journalists have been victims of reprisal killings so far this year, more than double the number from last year, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in a report.

A total of 30 journalists were killed in the line of duty in 2020, according to a tally by the watchdog group.

The CPJ is still investigating the deaths of at least 15 other journalists this year to determine whether journalism was the motive.

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) – UN Undersecretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, called for efforts to preserve the Iran nuclear deal.

“The Iranian nuclear issue is an important non-proliferation subject, with consequences for regional and global peace. In achieving the JCPOA, concerned countries showed that their dialogue and diplomacy, supported by a united Security Council, could forge a path to resolving this issue. We hope these countries and the council can do so again,” said DiCarlo.

NEW YORK (AP) — An election systems worker driven into hiding by death threats has filed a defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s campaign, two of its lawyers and some conservative media figures and outlets.

Eric Coomer, security director at the Colorado-based Dominion Voting Systems, said he wants his life back after being named in false charges as a key actor in “rigging” the election for President-elect Joe Biden. There has been no evidence that the election was rigged.

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 22 (APP): Three United Nations human rights experts have called on India to “immediately” stop its intimidation and a series of reprisals against Amnesty International (AI) in response to the organization’s work in exposing human rights violations in India, especially in occupied Kashmir and during the February anti-Muslim riots in Delhi.