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The number of civilian victims from the drone strikes more than tripled from 2012, the United Nations said.

MOSCOW, Jan 27, 2015 (AFP) - The UN said Monday that a rocket attack that killed 30 people in a city in eastern Ukraine deliberately targeted civilians, as Russian President Vladimir Putin spurned Western calls to rein in a pro-Moscow insurgency.

Sri Lanka on Tuesday accused the UN rights chief of "unwarranted interference" by calling for an international probe into allegations that government forces killed thousands of civilians at the climax of a Tamil civil war.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the United Nations Security Council have both strongly condemned the terrorist attacks near the Iranian embassy in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, Tuesday which killed at least 23 civilians and injured over 100 others.

BRUSSELS, July 22, 2014 (AFP) - European Union foreign ministers agreed Tuesday to expand sanctions on Syria over the government's "violent repression" of its civilian population.

A renegade general who has launched an assault against Islamists in Benghazi warned Libya had become a "terrorist hub", calling for a civilian presidential high council to form an emergency cabinet and organise legislative elections.

Tehran, YJC. Gholam-Hossein Dehqani, Iranian envoy to the United Nations has said that the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan and the terrorist attacks have led to a criminal circle which does the most harm to civilians.

Tehran, YJC. It was 27 years ago when Baath's most inhumane crime against Iranian civilians took place.