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UNITED NATIONS, Aug 08 (APP): The UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has expressed its outrage at a Taliban attack in Kabul, that led to “scores” of civilians casualties on Wednesday.

In a Tweet, the Mission said that such “indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks in heavily populated civilian areas must stop”.

According to media reports, the Taliban claimed responsibility for the deadly car bomb attack on a police station. At least 14 people are believed to have been killed in the explosion, and nearly 150 injured.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 08 (APP): Pakistani Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi Wednesday met a top aide of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and asked for the world body’s chief to play his due role in the crisis set off by India’s revocation of occupied Kashmir’s special status, as she continued to brief her counterparts on the deteriorating situation in the region, according to informed sources.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- A letter by Iran, which asks the United Nations for pushback against U.S. new sanctions, "is being circulated to the Security Council," a UN spokesman said Wednesday.

Iranian UN envoy Majid Takht Ravanchi reportedly sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday to ask for pushback against the United States after it imposed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Top United Nations political official told the Security Council on Wednesday that UN has no official statistics on the detainees, abductees and missing persons in Syria.

"Given the continued lack of access to places of detention and to detainees in Syria, the United Nations has no official statistics on those detained, abducted or missing," said UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo.

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson faced criticism Wednesday for declaring white supremacy “a hoax,” the same day President Donald Trump visited El Paso, Texas, after a white gunman who had written an anti-Hispanic rant killed 22 people.

Carlson has faced criticism before for his commentary, including a statement that immigration has made America dirtier. His remarks Tuesday came with the nation rubbed raw by two weekend mass shootings and increased concerns by law enforcement officials about violence attached to white nationalism.

7 Aug 2019; MEMO: A New York judge has ruled that Fordham University “must recognize a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine [SJP] as a university-sanctioned club”, declaring that the university’s decision not to do so in 2016 was “arbitrary and capricious

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 07 (APP): The UN’s top rights official has added her voice to condemnation of the weekend mass-shootings in the U.S. cities of El Paso and Dayton, insisting on Tuesday that “not just the US, but all States” should do more to stop discrimination.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 07 (APP): Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Maleeha Lodhi, spent a busy day on Tuesday briefing the Security Council president, diplomats and UN officials on the grave situation in the South Asian region , especially in the wake of India’s illegal annexation of the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

07 August 2019; DW: The treaty aims to improve the international trade and investment environment. The United States and China signed the treaty at a time they are locked in an escalating trade war.

United Nations member states signed on Wednesday an international treaty aimed at resolving cross-border commercial disputes through mediation.

NEW YORK, Aug 06 (APP): The Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent watchdog body, has expressed alarm at reports of a communication blackout and the arrest of a journalist in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir state amid an escalating political crisis.

On Monday, the Indian government announced the revocation of a constitutional provision granting limited autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir, and introduced measures that would change Kashmir’s administrative status from a state to a union territory, essentially putting it under federal control.