Headlines- 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.
- After US forces struck two rocket launchers on Iran's Larak Island, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran says to have attacked US bases in Jordan.
- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says that several Iranian fighters and civilians were killed and injured in the US attack on Larak Island.
- Since resuming its naval blockade of Iran on July 14, US Central Command claimed to have diverted 83 commercial vessels, disabled three, and boarded two.
- Guinea-Bissau held a referendum on Sunday to decide whether to grant the president additional authority.
- At least eight people died, 237 have been rescued, and 23 are still missing after a passenger ferry capsized off the coast of northern Cyprus on Sunday.
- NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is intended to survey the universe on a never-before-seen scale while investigating far-off planets, exploding stars, and black holes.
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Press Briefing on Upcoming UN Ocean...
Ngedikes Olai Uludong, Permanent Representative of Palau and co-facilitator to oversee the preparatory process of the 2020 UN Ocean Conference and conclude the intergovernmental consultations on the declaration, speaks at the press briefing on the UN Ocean Conference, to be held during 2 to 6 June 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal
UN Secretary-General Swears in Director-General of...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres swears in Zainab Hawa Bangura, as Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi
UN Security Council President Briefs Press...
Marc Pecsteen de Buytswerve, Permanent Representative of Belgium to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of February, speaks to reporters ahead of Security Council consultations on Myanmar and other matters
Urgent Need to Tackle the High...
indigenous peoples also often experience poor working conditions and discrimination. Tomei said the biggest challenge to improving the living and working conditions of indigenous peoples is “the extremely high incidence of poverty and extreme poverty among them.”
Scene at United Nations Headquarters
A view of Manhattan through the window of the Secretary-General’s conference room
UN75 Dialogue with the Secretary-General “Youth...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres takes part in a UN75 Dialogue with youth on the theme “Youth in the Driving Seat”
Holocaust Memorial Ceremony “75 years after...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony “75 years after Auschwitz – Holocaust Education and Remembrance for Global Justice” on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
Meet the Author of “Invisible Women”
Caroline Criado Perez, author of “Invisible Women” signs her book at a “Meet the Author” event at the UN Bookshop. The book is the winner of the 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize
Opening of Exhibit “Reflections in a...
Lara Lempert Head of the Judaica Center at the Department of the Documentary Heritage Studies of the National Library of Lithuania, speaks at the opening of the exhibit “Reflections in a Shattered Mirror” on Lithuania’s Jewish past
Scene at United Nations Headquarters
A view of the sun rising behind Long Island City and the sculpture, “Good Defeats Evil”, by Zurab Tsereteli, in the north garden area of UN Headquarters. The sculpture, presented by the Soviet Union in 1990, depicts St. George slaying the dragon