Headlines- The IRGC launched ballistic missiles at two US warships "patrolling regional waters," according to US Central Command, which then launched an attack on Iranian oil vessels.
- The US attacks on three oil tankers were denounced by Iran's Foreign Ministry as a "war crime," and the Iranian military threatened to launch further strikes on US naval vessels if the blockade persisted.
- On Saturday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in Moscow.
- As part of an anti-immigrant protest, hundreds of masked people halted ferry traffic between France and the UK on Saturday at the port of Dover, England.
- Ten days after the catastrophic floods near the border between Nepal and Tibet, a man and a woman found alive, according to officials.
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Cuban President Addresses 78th General Assembly...
The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Dáz-Canel Bermdez, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-eighth session.
Press Briefing for Annual Energy...
Reporters are briefed by Damilola Ogunbiyi, Co-Chair of UN-Energy and Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sustainable Energy for All, on the annual Energy Compact progress report
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
United Nations Security Council meeting is briefed on threat to international peace and security by the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu
UN Security Council Meetings to Discuss...
The High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, briefs the UN Security Council meeting about the Syrian conflict
Closing Meeting of 77th Session...
At the closing of the seventy-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly, Csaba Krösi, who presided over the assembly, handed the gavel to Dennis Francis, who would preside over the assembly’s upcoming seventy-eighth session
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
After the United Nations Security Council meeting on the Middle East situation, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of August, is greeted by Jeanne Mrad (right), Charge d’Affaires, a.i. and Deputy Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations
UN Secretary-General and Canterbury Archbishop Meeting
The meeting between Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (second from right) takes place on August 29,2023. Amina Mohammed, the deputy secretary-general, is on the left.
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
United Nations Security Council meeting on West Africa’s peace consolidation is presided over by James Kariuki, the Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the UN and President of the Security Council for the month of July.
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
The United Nations Security Council meeting is briefed on the situation concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, Assistant Secretary-General for Africa in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operationson.
International Yoga Day at UN’s Headquarters
The Prime Minister of the Republic of India, Narendra Modi, attends in a yoga class on the North Lawn of the UN headquarters to commemorate the International Day of Yoga