Headlines- Tehran is rocked by explosions as Iran claims that since the war started 11 days ago, US and Israeli forces have bombed about 10,000 civilian sites and killed over 1,300 citizens.
- The Pentagon said on Tuesday that in the first ten days of the war with Iran, about 140 American service men have been injured.
- Israel's military announced on Wednesday that it had triggered air defenses after spotting missiles coming from Iran.
- After "temporary authorization from the Qatar Civil Aviation Authority," Qatar Airways said it will run 29 flights to and from Doha on Thursday.
- Mohaddeseh Zolfi, an Iranian women's national football player, and Zahra Soltan Moshkehkar, a staff staff member, joined five other team members in seeking refuge in Australia.
Tag: United Nations
Holocaust Memorial Ceremony “75 years after...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony “75 years after Auschwitz – Holocaust Education and Remembrance for Global Justice” on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
Meet the Author of “Invisible Women”
Caroline Criado Perez, author of “Invisible Women” signs her book at a “Meet the Author” event at the UN Bookshop. The book is the winner of the 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize
Opening of Exhibit “Reflections in a...
Lara Lempert Head of the Judaica Center at the Department of the Documentary Heritage Studies of the National Library of Lithuania, speaks at the opening of the exhibit “Reflections in a Shattered Mirror” on Lithuania’s Jewish past
Scene at United Nations Headquarters
A view of the sun rising behind Long Island City and the sculpture, “Good Defeats Evil”, by Zurab Tsereteli, in the north garden area of UN Headquarters. The sculpture, presented by the Soviet Union in 1990, depicts St. George slaying the dragon
Graduation Ceremony for All Female New...
Olga Cristina Panait, one of thirteen new United Nations Security Officers, poses for a photo with her child at her graduation ceremony for new Security Officers held on 20 January at UN Headquarters. The group consists of thirteen female officers
Sculpture Decorated with Croatian Cravat at...
A special decorating ceremony took place at UN Headquarters on 15 January 2020 and the “Peace Monument” sculpture was decorated with the Croatian cravat. The event symbolically marks the beginning of the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and was organized by the Permanent Mission of Croatia to the United Nations
UN Security Council Meets on Maintenance...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres arrives to attend the Security Council meeting on maintenance of international peace and security and upholding the United Nations Charter on 9 January 2020
Visitor at United Nations Headquarters
A visitor tours the exhibition space at United Nations Headquarters in New York City, which has been open to the general public since November 1952
UN Secretary-General Meets President of Tokyo...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres meets with Yoshiro Mori, President of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Bangladesh Bars Rohingya Children from Education,...
More than 1 million displaced people have been living at sprawling refugee camps in Bangladesh’s southeastern Cox’s Bazar district, including about 740,000 stateless Rohingya who fled their homes in neighboring Rakhine state in late August 2017