Headlines- Early on Sunday morning local time, Kuwait's defense ministry announced that an Iranian drone attack had targeted fuel tanks at the country's international airport.
- US president Trump said he believes Iran is to blame for the attack on the school of Iranian girls.
- As the conflict with the Iran-backed Hezbollah intensifies, dozens more people have died in Lebanon as a result with major Israeli air and ground operations.
- On Saturday, Trump visited an air base in Delaware for honorable transfer of six US service members who had been killed in the fighting.
- After a week of strikes, Israel and the United States had almost complete control of the skies over Tehran, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who declared on Saturday that Israel would continue its fight with Iran "with all our force."
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June 10, 2020
COVID Crisis May Push 130 Million...
Addressing the annual ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment (HAS), Lowcock said that according to UN agencies, “the main measures of human development will all go backwards this year for first time since 1990” and “could signify the largest reversal in human development since records began,” and the crisis may push “as many as 60 million people into extreme poverty,” and “130 million more people to the brink of starvation, almost doubling last year’s figure.”