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Current 2018 members of UN Human Rights Council include:
•Iraq
•Cuba
•China
•Qatar
•Angola
•Burundi
•Pakistan
•Venezuela
•DR Congo
•Afghanistan
•Saudi Arabia
•United Arab Emirates
New members to be elected on Oct. 12 to UN Human Rights Council include:
• Eritrea
• Bahrain
• Somalia
• Cameroon
• Philippines
• Bangladesh
“Countries with poor human rights records like Saudi Arabia will never have a seat on the council again.”
—Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch, 2006
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@foxnewspolitics French intelligence concluded #Iran's intelligence ministry, which is controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered foiled attack on exiled Iranian opposition group's rally near Paris in June, French diplomatic source said.
irannewswire.org/german-court-a…
The Trump administration is pushing international nuclear inspectors to launch a new investigation into evidence Iran has been stockpiling #nuclear weapons technology and materials at a secret undisclosed site freebeacon.com/national-secur…
The hardening of relations between #Paris2018 and Tehran could have far-reaching consequences for Iran as President Hassan Rouhani’s government looks to European capitals to salvage a 2015 nuclear deal reuters.com/article/us-fra…
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Theresa May went to UNGA with 6 UK Officials.

President Buhari went to UNGA with:

1. Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State;
2. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama;
3. Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami;
4. Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole;
5. Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah;
6. Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma;
7. Minister of State for Environment, Ibrahim Jibrin.
8. The National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd);
9. DG, National Intelligence Agency, Ahmed Abubakar;
10. Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service, Mohammad Babandede;
11. Acting Chairman, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu.
12. Mrs Aisha Buhari

All the above are going with their own party. Some went with as much as 20 people!!!
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For the last 24 hours I've been texting & calling with refugees in Libya. 500 are apparently stuck in a Tripoli prison w/o food & water after heavy fighting broke out two days ago. They say their guards ran away, leaving them alone.
These refugees are men, women & children. They tried to cross the Mediterranean earlier this year, but were found by Italian boats, who turned them over to the EU-backed Libyan coastguard, who put them in prison. The conditions were already terrible before the fighting started.
Oh the phone earlier I could hear children crying & what sounded like bombing in the distance. The refugees say everyone's incredibly frightened. "We hear machine guns, tanks, big bombs, last night from the roof it was all fire."
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