Headlines
  • Iran's president and security chief met with senior officials from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey, which comprise newly formed Mecca Alliance, in Tehran.
  • Sheik Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian are scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in Moscow.
  • The coalition led by Saudi Arabia that backs Yemen's internationally recognized government has launched airstrikes against Houthi-held areas of the country, including Sanaa, the capital.
  • Israeli forces have raided Hebron, locked down the whole occupied West Bank, and killed at least five Palestinians in Gaza, including a seven-year-old girl.
  • After finding that suspects connected to the deadly church bombing last week were hiding in southern Syria, Jordan said late on Monday that its air force had attacked military hideouts there.
  • On Sunday, Qatari mediators visited Tehran in an attempt to ease tensions in the area.
  • Israeli forces have raided Hebron, locked down the whole occupied West Bank, and killed at least eight Palestinians in Gaza.

Category: Pick of the Day

April 10, 2019

UN Security Council Considers Situation in...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres speaks with Christoph Heusgen, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of April, ahead of the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

April 9, 2019

Briefing by UN High Commissioner for...

Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, briefs the Security Council on the state of the world’s displaced

April 8, 2019

Opening Session of 2019 ECOSOC Youth...

The theme of this year’s Forum is “Youth: Empowered, included and equal”

April 5, 2019

UN Secretary-General Visits Tripoli, Libya

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres speaks with a young man at the Ain Zara Detention Center in Tripoli, Libya, where migrants and refugees face indefinite detention

April 4, 2019

Autism Awareness Event on Nurturing Care...

A participant at the event to commemorate World Autism Awareness Day (2 April), held on the theme “Nurturing Care Framework and Family Centered Care”.The event was co-organized by the Permanent Missions of Bangladesh, Belarus, India, Italy, Oman, Qatar, the Republic of Korea and the United States, in cooperation with Autism Speaks

UN Secretary-General Visits UN Support Mission...

Secretary-General António Guterres vists the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), together with (at right) Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNSMIL, and Nader Darwich, Chief Of Mission at UNSMIL

April 3, 2019

UN Security Council Considers Situation in...

Bocchit Edmond Minister for Foreign Affairs of Haiti, addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in Haiti

UN Secretary-General Visits Egypt

Secretary-General António Guterres (centre) meets with archeologists and staff at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo to see the restoration work going on there in order to preserve Egypt’s cultural heritage

April 2, 2019

UN General Assembly Meets on Elimination...

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, addresses the General Assembly meeting on the elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

April 1, 2019

UN Secretary-General Visits Tunisia

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres lays a wreath to pay tribute to the victims of the 2015 terrorist attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis, Tunisia

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