RAMALLAH -- Saeb Erekat, the secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee and chief Palestinian negotiator, died Tuesday at 65 after contracting COVID-19, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Movement said in a press statement.

Erekat died while receiving treatment at the Israeli Hadassah Hospital, where he had been treated for about three weeks, after suffering health complications due to his infection with COVID-19, the statement said. (PLO-Saeb Erekat-COVID-19)

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MOSCOW -- Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a joint statement on Tuesday, agreeing on a complete ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Kremlin said. (Russia-Ceasefire-Nagorno-Karabakh)

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GENEVA -- The United States' human rights record was examined by a working group session of the UN Human Rights Council Monday, where many countries criticized the U.S. human rights situation and proposed recommendations to the country.

Representatives of more than 110 countries spoke at the session of the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group, urging the United States to eliminate all kinds of discrimination based on race, religion and gender, combat hate speech and religious intolerance, reform the judiciary, eliminate police violence, change the policy of isolating migrant children from their parents, and protect the right to health of the public during epidemics. (US-UN-Human Rights)

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LIMA -- Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra said on Monday night that he will not challenge the Congress's impeachment decision and will "leave the presidential palace today."

Vizcarra made the remarks in a speech following a Congress vote to impeach him over bribery allegations. (Peru-President-Impeachment) Enditem

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