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.

Tag: United Nations

December 2, 2018

Iran: Public Execution of a Person...

According to the Yazd Province Judiciary Courthouse’s Public Relations department, Kamran was hanged in public in Taft city,  on the morning of Thursday, November 29

December 1, 2018

UNESCO Adds Reggae, Perfume Making and...

The United Nations has added reggae music to its list of International Cultural Treasures worthy of protection and promotion

November 30, 2018

Bolivia: Coping With Climate Change

Using what is known as ‘talking maps’, farmers work with technical experts from the project to create visual representations of what their community looked like in the past, what it looks like now

November 27, 2018

Worsen Food Situation in Yemen

Some 20 million people out of Yemen’s population of 29 million are dependent on the commercial market to feed their families

November 26, 2018

UN Concern Over Escalation of Tensions...

United States Ambassador Nikki Haley said the latest events represent “yet another reckless Russian escalation,” adding that Russia “decided to prevent passage of the Ukrainian ships, rammed them, and then opened fire on them.”

November 24, 2018

The Golden Rule

The mosaic depicts a diverse group of people standing together with the words “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” inscribed on it

November 23, 2018

Meet the Press!

A Picture of a press conference of Olof Skoog (on screen), Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations

November 22, 2018

For the Abolition of Slavery and...

Paulomi Tripathi, First Secretary in the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, addresses the General Assembly meeting

November 20, 2018

Some 220,000 people facing severe acute...

The most complicated cases are children who are not only severely malnourished but who also are suffering from cholera

November 17, 2018

The First Snow of the Season

First snow of the season falls on the Japanese Peace Bell

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