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“The peace process must be multilateral”. Abbas faces the world body knowing that the most recent polling back home shows a strong majority of Palestinians believe it’s time for him to step aside.

Its repeated vetoes, mainly on intervention in Syria or calling for investigations into alleged atrocities committed by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, have led to criticism that the Kremlin is undermining the council.

The federal government has insisted that it is winning the war against Boko Haram despite all challenges and campaign of calumny by the fifth columnists. Since 2002, Boko Haram has caused over 10,000 deaths and the displacement of over 1.5 million people from the Northern states.

SHAPIRO: Well, what does this major development – the Taliban takeover of Kunduz – say about the future of Afghanistan and about the future of the USA role there given that America plans to withdraw nearly all of the troops by next year?

It said 321 Iranians are still missing.

“We must not forget that the roots of today’s wars, destruction, and terror can be found in the occupation, invasion and military intervention of yesterday”, Rouhani said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday.

Saudi-led warplanes pounded rebel positions in Sanaa on Monday as the rebels called a mass rally to celebrate the first anniversary of their seizure of the Yemeni capital.

Mass Taliban attacks on Kunduz, as well as on the Musa Qala district center in Helmand province in the south during a bloody fighting season, have taken on broad political and strategic significance and provided the insurgents with a major propaganda boost.

An investigation is under way, sources added.

The authorities identified 10 more bodies among the victims of the worst tragedy in 25 years to hit the annual pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

“The Taliban have taken the city but our forces are still putting up resistance in some areas”, Kunduz police spokesman Sayed Sarwar Hussaini told AFP news agency, adding that the defenders were still waiting for reinforcements from Kabul.

He said Saudi authorities blocked a road used by hajj pilgrims to allow a royal convoy to pass through, causing the deadly convergence in Mina, a town on the outskirts of Mecca.

The dispute came amid tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia over the conflicts in Yemen and Syria that Riyadh views as a bid by Tehran to expand its influence in the region.

Last week, Yemeni Prime Minster Khaled Bahah and several Cabinet members from the internationally recognized government arrived in Aden and announced they were restarting government operations in the country.

In his speech, Putin was expected to emphasise Russia’s efforts to resolve the Syrian civil war and combat the Islamic State extremist group, contrasting it with the US-led military campaign in Iraq and Syria.