Headlines
  • Two high-speed trains collided near Toledo in central Spain, resulting in at least 64 fatalities.
  • The Middle East is "capable of addressing our problems" without US intervention, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told Russian Prime Minister Putin.
  • The spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition claims in a post on X that air defenses had intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile that the Houthis had launched in the direction of Taif.
  • Flavio Bolsonaro, former Brazilian presidential candidate, fled to the United States after his passports were revoked due to his refusal to comply with a Supreme Court order to turn them in as part of a money laundering investigation.
  • The US State Department would grant Flávio Bolsonaro and his family visas and allow them to enter the country.
  • Since the outbreak was discovered in mid-May, 10,060 Ebola cases and 4,887 deaths have been reported by the Democratic Republic of the Congo's health authorities..
  • Over the dismissal of Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, from the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office, a federal judge in New York ruled against President Donald Trump and the Justice Department on Monday.

Category: Pick of the Day

February 7, 2020

Press Briefing on Upcoming UN Ocean...

Ngedikes Olai Uludong, Permanent Representative of Palau and co-facilitator to oversee the preparatory process of the 2020 UN Ocean Conference and conclude the intergovernmental consultations on the declaration, speaks at the press briefing on the UN Ocean Conference, to be held during 2 to 6 June 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal

February 6, 2020

UN Secretary-General Swears in Director-General of...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres swears in Zainab Hawa Bangura, as Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi

February 5, 2020

UN Security Council President Briefs Press...

Marc Pecsteen de Buytswerve, Permanent Representative of Belgium to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of February, speaks to reporters ahead of Security Council consultations on Myanmar and other matters

February 1, 2020

Scene at United Nations Headquarters

A view of Manhattan through the window of the Secretary-General’s conference room

January 30, 2020

UN75 Dialogue with the Secretary-General “Youth...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres takes part in a UN75 Dialogue with youth on the theme “Youth in the Driving Seat”

January 28, 2020

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

January 25, 2020

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

January 24, 2020

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

January 21, 2020

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

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