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
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
Representative of Panama to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the Month of August,
First Session of Committee on UN...
A view of attendees prior to the start of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation.
Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterret briefs local media during his visit to the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries, held in Awaza, Turkmenistan.
UN Secretary General Meets with Deputy...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres meets with Tanja Fajon, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia.
UN Security Council Meets on Situation...
Danny Danon, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, addresses the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
UN Secretary General Delivers Special Address...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres delivers a special address on Climate Action “A Moment of Opportunity: Supercharging the New Energy Era”.
UN Security Council Meets on UN...
Ersin Tatar, Leader of Turkish Cypriot Community, briefs reporters after the informal meeting on Cyprus.
Cyber Crime Conventions
International police and judicial cooperation on cybercrime and e-evidence is one of the advantages of the Budapest Convention, a criminal justice treaty that provides states the ability to:1. criminalize a list of computer-related attacks,2. implement procedural law tools to improve the effectiveness of cybercrime investigations and the security of electronic evidence related to any crime, while also providing protections for the rule of law.
UN Security Council Extends Mandate of...
François Jackman, Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations, addresses the UN Security Council meeting on the question concerning Haiti.