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
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
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Malawian Students,Farmers Benefit From New Feeding...
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UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, briefs the United Nations Security Council meeting on the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT).
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Un Secretary-General Briefs Reporters on Situation...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres briefs reporters on the latest developments in Syria.
President of UN Security Council Briefs...
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UN Security Council Meets on Maintenance...
Barbara Woodward,Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and President of the UN Security Council for the Month of November, chairs the Security Council meeting on the maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine.
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UN Security Council Meets on Protection...
Lisa Doughten, Director of Financing and Partnerships Division of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), briefs the United Nations Security Council meeting on protection of civilians in armed conflict.
UN Security Council Meets on Situation...
Barbara Woodward, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the Month of November, chairs the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.