Headlines- While Iran's economy, military, and leadership have all significantly deteriorated, US President Donald Trump claims that the Strait of Hormuz is in "extremely good shape," adding that "it doesn't mean we won't smack them to see what happens."
- An apparent mentally unstable woman was shot and killed by New York City police after allegedly stabbing two people in Times Square.
- Leaders from more than a dozen countries, including Iran's Masoud Pezeshkian, China's Xi Jinping, India's Narendra Modi, and Russia's Vladimir Putin, gathered in Kyrgyzstan on Monday for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit.
- On Monday, Pedro Sanchez, the prime minister of Spain, accused Russian and Israeli-linked social media platforms of spreading disinformation regarding the July refugee crisis in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
- On Monday, US President Donald Trump's administration was given permission by the US Supreme Court to proceed with the $400 million White House ballroom construction project.
- At least 750 people killed and another 3000 went missing on Wednesday after landslides caused by a glacial collapse unleashed a torrent of mud and water across Nepal and China's autonomous region of Tibet.
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UN Security Council Meets on United...
Faisal Shahkar, United Nations Police Adviser, addresses the UN Security Council meeting on the United Nations peacekeeping operations with Police Commissioners.
UN Security Council Meets on Situation...
Geir O. Pedersen UN Special Envoy for Syria, and Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (on screen right), address the United Nations Security council meeting on the situation in the Middle East(Syria).
UN Security Council Meets on Peace...
Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, Founding Director of Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center, briefs the Security Council meeting on peace consolidation in West Africa. The Council heard a Report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS).
UN Secretary General Visits Samoa
Youth listen to deliberations during the event on Samoa youth dialogue, during a trip by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to Samoa.
Permanent Representative of Bhutan Presents Credentials...
Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the United Nations, Pema Lektup Dorji presents his credentials to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres
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 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.