Headlines- On Monday at 14:00 GMT, the US military says it would start blockading Iranian ports, preventing ships from entering or leaving Iran from passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
- In the southern town of Biyyada, Hezbollah claims that its men have attacked Israeli soldiers with "a swarm of attack drones."
- US President Donald Trump's threat to block the Strait of Hormuz was deemed "ridiculous" by Iran's navy chief, Shahram Irani.
- Any military ships approaching the Strait of Hormuz "will be considered a violation of the ceasefire and will be met with severe force," according to a statement released on Sunday by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
- The speaker of Iran's parliament Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf is leading the delegation that has arrived to Pakistan for talks with the United States.
- Nawaf Salam, the prime minister of Lebanon, stated that he was working to ensure the withdrawal of Israeli forces and to put an end to the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
- Viktor Orban, the longtime prime minister of Hungary, has conceded defeat to Peter Magyar in the country's legislative election.
Tag: UN Secretary General António Guterres
UN Security Council Considers Situation in...
Maria Antonieta Pinto Lopes d’Alva, Representative of Guinea-Bissau to the United Nations, addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in Guinea-Bissau
UN Secretary-General Meets King and Queen...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres meets with King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium
UN Climate Action Summit 2019 in...
The Summit is convened by the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and aims to deliver new pathways and practical actions to shift global response into higher gear on confronting climate change, as well as to boost ambition and accelerate action to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement on 23 September 2019
Opening of UN Climate Action Summit...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (on screens and at podium) opens the UN Climate Action Summit 2019. The Summit is convened by Secretary-General António Guterres and aims to deliver new pathways and practical actions to shift global response into higher gear on confronting climate change
UN Update on Syria
United Nations “remains deeply alarmed” by the ongoing fighting in northwestern Syria which left “at least 160 civilians dead, hundreds of thousands of people displaced, and put three million people in the crossfire,” a spokesperson for the organization said on Monday (3 Jun)
UN Secretary-General Meets Foreign Minister of...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres meets with Jorge Arreaza, Minister of the People’s Power for Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela