Headlines
  • State media reports that Iranian clerics are close to the selection of the nation's next supreme leader.
  • 1,332 people have killed as a result of the US-Israeli attacks in Iran.
  • Early on Sunday morning, Kuwait's defense ministry announced that an Iranian drone attack had targeted fuel tanks at the country's international airport.
  • In what appears to be a planned assassination, Israeli forces bombed the Ramada Hotel in central Beirut, killing at least four people and injuring ten more, Al Jazeera reports.
  • The US and Israel are strikes Tehran's refineries and oil storage facilities for the first time.
  • 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."

Tag: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres

December 3, 2020

UN Secretary-General Holds “State of the...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (left) has a conversation with Professor Maureen Raymo (not pictured) at Columbia University

November 20, 2020

Event on Leaving No One Behind...

Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani, Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations, addresses the event “Leaving No One Behind and building back better from COVID-19

November 17, 2020

Security Council Holds Videoconference in Connection...

Robert Keith Rae, Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations and Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, briefs the videoconference with Security Council members in connection with Peace and Security in Africa

November 3, 2020

Civil Society Meeting on Financing for...

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed makes remarks during the Civil Society meeting on Financing for Development in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond

October 30, 2020

UN Security Council Hold Videoconference in...

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), briefs the open video conference

October 21, 2020

UN Security Council Hold Videoconference on...

Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, addresses the open videoconference with Security Council members in connection with maintenance of international peace and security

October 16, 2020

UN Security Council Meets on Situation...

Nicolas De Rivière (left), Permanent Representative of the Republic of France to the United Nations, speaks with Christoph Heusgen, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations

October 14, 2020

China’s Narrow Win of UN Human...

China beat out only Saudi Arabia, which has faced its own share of condemnation over its rights record. Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and Nepal also won seats in the race to represent Asia-Pacific countries on the 47-member council

October 3, 2020

UN Secretary-General Addresses High-level Meeting to...

Secretary-General Addresses High-level Meeting to Promote International Day for Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

September 30, 2020

President of UN General Assembly Closes...

Volkan Bozkir (at podium and on screens), President of the seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, delivers closing remarks to the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-fifth session

Top