Headlines
  • The US would not lift sanctions against Iran in return for a complete reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who further states that any sanctions relief is conditional upon Iran giving up enriched uranium.
  • The Kuwaiti army claims that loud noises heard around the country are the result of interceptions and that it is responding to drone and missile attacks.
  • On Tuesday, U.S. Central Command disabled an oil ship for allegedly violating the U.S. naval blockade in the Arabian Gulf.
  • According to President Donald Trump, talks with Iran are still ongoing, but "one never knows" where they will end.
  • Resuming hostilities in the conflict with the United States appears "inevitable," a senior Iranian military general who stated on Tuesday that "the Iranian nation will never surrender."
  • A memorial honoring the victims of the 1994 genocide inaugurated in Paris on Tuesday by French President Emmanuel Macron and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame.

Tag: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres

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

UN Chief Calls for Immediate Talks...

Fighting for control of Tripoli between Hifter’s forces and those of the U.N.-backed government during the past week has left dozens of people dead

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

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 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 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

March 27, 2019

UN Secretary-General Signs Book of Condolences...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres signs the book of condolences at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Mozambique to the United Nations, for the lives lost during the Cyclone Idai

Press Encounter by UN Secretary-General on...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres
speaks to press about the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi

March 26, 2019

General Assembly Commemorates International Day of...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres makes remarks at the commemorative meeting of the General Assembly to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

March 25, 2019

UN General Assembly Meets on Elimination...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres
addresses the commemorative General Assembly meeting on the elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (21 March)

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