Headlines- The catastrophic flooding in Nepal has left at least 1,010 people dead and 3,916 missing,546 people are missing and 16 people have died in Tibet.
- 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.
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Opening of Sixty-fifth Session of Commission...
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Women Executive Director, addresses the opening of the sixty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65) on March 15
Executive Director of WFP Briefs Press...
Executive Director of WFP Briefs Press on Yemen
UN Secretary-General Briefs Press on Ten...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres briefs reporters on ten years of ongoing conflict in Syria
UN Security Council Holds Videoconference in...
T. S. Tirumurti, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, addresses the videoconference with Security Council members in connection with the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) -UN Photo by Evan Schneider
UN Observance of International Women’s Day...
UN Observance of International Women’s Day 2021 on Theme “Women in Leadership: Achieving an Equal Future in a COVID-19 World”
UN Security Council Holds Videoconference in...
Barbara Woodward, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, addresses the videoconference with Security Council members in connection with the Middle East (Syria)
UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Myanmar...
Christine Schraner Burgener, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Myanmar, briefs reporters
UN Secretary-General Attends Unveiling of ‘Pandemic...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres attends the unveiling of the installation ‘Pandemic Classroom’ at United Nations Headquarters to call attention to the need for governments to prioritize the reopening of schools
Press Conference Following High-Level Pledging Event...
Mark Lowcock, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, speaks during the press conference following the virtual high-Level pledging event for the humanitarian situation in Yemen
UN Special Envoy on Myanmar Briefs...
Christine Schraner Burgener, Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on Myanmar, briefs the General Assembly on the situation in Myanmar at an informal meeting of the plenary