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20 Feb 2023; MEMO: The UN Security Council issued a formal statement on Monday denouncing Israel's plan to expand settlements on Occupied Palestinian Territory, the first action the United States has allowed the body to take against its ally, Israel, in six years, Reuters reports.

21 Feb 2023; MEMO: A US judge, on Tuesday, said victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks are not entitled to seize billions of dollars of assets belonging to Afghanistan's Central Bank to satisfy court judgments they obtained against the Taliban, Reuters reports.

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 21 (APP): With humanitarian needs spiraling across the world, political will and funding are required to address war, climate change and other drivers, the UN relief chief said Monday.

The world is facing the largest food crisis in modern history and famine is looming, while human rights – especially women’s rights – are under attack and tensions are high in places where injustice is rife, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said in remarks to the Riyadh Humanitarian Forum in Saudi Arabia, delivered on behalf of the Secretary-General.

NEW YORK, February 21. /TASS/: The US is still ready to discuss with Russia the issue of strategic arms limitation at any time, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday.

"[The US is] ready to talk about strategic arms limitations at any time with Russia, irrespective of anything else going on in the world or in our relationship," he told reporters accompanying him on a visit to Athens, according to the New York Times.

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 21 (NNN-XINHUA) – The Security Council, yesterday, adopted a presidential statement, calling for the de-escalation of tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — UN member states embraced “positive energy” as they launched two weeks of negotiations aimed at finally reaching a treaty meant to protect and preserve vast areas of the world’s oceans.

After more than 15 years of formal and informal talks, this is the third time in less than a year that negotiators have converged on New York in what, yet again, is supposed to be a final and conclusive round.

But as the talks, set to run through March 3, opened on Monday, cautious optimism appeared to be taking hold.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up its first case about a federal law that is credited with helping create the modern internet by shielding Google, Twitter, Facebook and other companies from lawsuits over content posted on their sites by others.

The justices are hearing arguments Tuesday about whether the family of an American college student killed in a terrorist attack in Paris can sue Google for helping extremists spread their message and attract new recruits.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wants the nation’s freight railroads to immediately act to improve safety while regulators try to strengthen safety rules in the wake of a fiery derailment in Ohio that forced evacuations when toxic chemicals were released and burned.

ATLANTA (AP) — They were led down a staircase into a garage beneath a downtown Atlanta courthouse, where officers with big guns were waiting. From there, they were ushered into vans with heavily tinted windows and driven to their cars under police escort.

For Emily Kohrs, these were the moments last May when she realized she wasn’t participating in just any grand jury.

“That was the first indication that this was a big freaking deal,” Kohrs told The Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (NNN-XINHUA) – Hundreds of protesters, yesterday afternoon slammed America’s role of “war machine,” in overseas wars, at a rally before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Organisers said, the anti-war rally was planned to protest against massive money funnelling into Ukraine, as well as, America’s role in the Russia-Ukraine conflicts.

“Billions of taxpayers’ dollars are being torched at the altar of U.S. hegemony, the military-industrial complex, and a corrupt Congress,” a release read.