Headlines- In a post on his X account on Thursday, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson accused that the US was "deliberately attacking civilian targets"
- Speaking to reporters at the White House, US Vice President JD Vance tried to downplay the war by claiming that it is not a war at all.
- According to a 24-hour update on the Pentagon's casualty database, the number of American troops injured in the war with Iran has risen to 767.
- Iran's repeated attacks were condemned by Kuwait's foreign ministry as a blatant violation of its sovereignty and a direct threat to its security and stability.
- The first such transfer since the outbreak of the most recent war between Israel and Hezbollah six months ago took place on Thursday when a Lebanese man who had been imprisoned in Israel was released.
- Over the past week, more than 1,700 Indonesians have fallen ill with food poisoning after consuming government-provided free school meals as part of a new scheme.
- Over 1,270 people have died as a result of last week's massive flash flood at the Himalayan border between Nepal and China.
Category: Pick of the Day
UN Secretary-General and Director-General of WHO...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres participates in a virtual press conference on the Global COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy with Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO)
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and...
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [OCHA], Martin Griffiths, is sworn in by Secretary-General António Guterres
UN Security Council Meets on Situation...
United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo is chaired by Martin Kimani, Kenya’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of October. The Council hears the Secretary-report General’s on UN Organization Stabilization
UN Security Council Neets to Discuss...
T.S. Tirumurti, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, speaks at a Security Council meeting about Haiti
President of UN General Assembly Addresses...
Abdulla Shahid, President of the United Nations General Assembly’s seventy-sixth session, speaks to reporters after the General Assembly’s seventy-sixth session’s general discussion
UN Secretary-General Attends Virtually Pre-COP26 Ministerial...
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Participates in a Virtual Pre-COP26 Ministerial Plenary Meeting
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
The Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, particularly the Palestinian conflict, is chaired by Geraldine Byrne Nason, Ireland’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for September
Opening of UN High-Level Energy Dialogue
A view on the High-Level Energy Dialogue on September 24,2021. The Dialogue aims to address the twin crises of climate change and energy poverty by accelerating action toward clean, affordable energy for all
UN Security Council Convenes to Discuss...
On the issue of climate and security, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the Security Council meeting on international peace and security
UN General Assembly Marks 20th...
Abdulla Shahid, President of the United Nations General Assembly’s seventy-sixth session, speaks at a high-level meeting of the General Assembly to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action’s adoption. Reparations, racial justice, and equality for persons of African origin are among the topics discussed during the meeting