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An American scientist who secretly has contacts with the North Korean regime says Pyongyang wants to know if President Trump is really crazy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US ambassador Donald Trump agree on the approach to the crisis in Syria. That is what the Kremlin reports on Saturday with a reference to a joint statement by the presidents.

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Already a million Rohingya Muslims fled from Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh. An untenable situation, the UN Envoy of that country, calling on Myanmar, to recapture the refugees.

The European Union releases millions of euros for humanitarian aid to Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar fleeing to Bangladesh.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has withdrawn the appointment of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador. Topman Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that he came to this decision after studying objections against the appointment.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is 'upset' about the crisis with Rohingya refugees in her country and is determined to resolve it. But she has to take care that she does not focus on the situation even more, said one of her advisors on Friday.

Security troops in Myanmar have robbed a half million Rohingya brutally in the northern state of Rakhine. Their houses, villages and harvests were destroyed to prevent them from returning.

More than 11,000 Rohingya refugees were pulled from Myanmar to Bangladesh on Monday. That confirmed UNHCR UN Refugee, which announced with the local authorities to set up a temporary shelter center.

The former Commander of the Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica, Naser Orić, has been released in Bosnia from war crimes against Serbs. Persecutors of Serbian victims protested the room.

The International Red Cross is very concerned about reports of many hundreds of civilians and devastated hospitals and schools in Syria in recent weeks. According to the organization, violence is currently the strongest since the fall of East Aleppo in December last year.

A return of Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh has the highest priority for Myanmar. Both countries agreed Monday to set up a working group to return more than half a million refugees.

UN Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein has urged the Spanish authorities for a thorough, independent and impartial investigation into all violence on Sunday at the referendum in Catalonia.

Russia commits 'severe' human rights abuses in the Crimea, including imposing Russian citizenship and deporting hundreds of detainees to prisons in Russia. This conclusion is contained in a United Nations Human Rights Report (UN).

The UBS bank in Geneva and three adjacent restaurants have a remarkable clog of their toilets. In the toilet bowls some 500 euro banknotes were found. The total value of the clogging is 100,000 euros.

The prominent jurist Carla del Ponte has said goodbye to the United Nations Human Rights Council. She released her frustrations about the fact that no special tribunal was established to punish war crimes committed in Syria.

Who has stopped stacking 500 euro notes in Geneva in the last few months? That question hopes that the Swiss Public Prosecution Service will be able to answer quickly. The case is stinking.

A North Korean ambassador, Han Tae song, said in Geneva on Tuesday that the country's nuclear program was almost completed. He said this in an angry response to Monday's sharpened United Nations sanctions against North Korea due to nuclear trials.

The attacks of security forces in Myanmar aimed at the Islamic population of the Rohingyas resemble 'a school example of ethnic cleansing'. This has been said by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, Monday.

A prominent Syrian opposition leader has taken to the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura. The diplomat said earlier that the opposition should accept that they did not win the conflict in Syria.

The Syrian opposition must, according to UN ambassador Staffan de Mistura, be based on the fact that they have not won the civil war. He wondered aloud whether 'the opposition is able to be realistic and united enough' to realize that.

UN researchers hold the Syrian Air Force responsible for the poison gas attack at Khan Sheikhoun, where 83 deaths fell in April. The armed forces of the regime would also have done dozens of other attacks with chemical weapons.

North Korea presents the United States with more 'presents' in the prospect. That said the North Korean ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva in the wake of the toughest nuclear test in the history of his country.

Cholera still catches around Yemen. Since April, 612,703 people have been affected by the disease in the stray country, according to World Health Organization and Yemeni authorities.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will announce the opening session of a three-week session of the UN Human Rights Council on September 11th. 'We have received a verbal confirmation that he comes,' said UN spokesperson Roland Gomez. 'He will speak at the opening of the session.'

The latest civilizations in Syria of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group were likely to fall in late October. That said Staffan de Mistura, the UN Envoy for Syria, against the BBC. Then, according to De Mistura, preparations can be made for 'credible' elections.

The United Nations Human Rights Chief is surprised by the persistent criticism of Donald Trump on journalists. High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein called it 'quite amazing' that the American president 'attacks' the US President.

The United Nations Human Rights Director has taken hard to Venezuela.

The rocket that fired North Korea on Tuesday morning, flying over Japan and eventually falling into the ocean after 2700 kilometers, caused a lot of turmoil. It's the second time Pyongyang chases the arm of the world with the launch of a projectile.

North Korea accused the United States of firing on the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday at an 'extremely explosive level.' The country declared it entitled to react with 'severe countermeasures.'