Headlines- 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.
- 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.
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UN Secretary-General Meets with President of...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres meets with Samuel Žbogar, of the Republic of Slovenia to the United Nations Security Council and President of the Security Council for the month of September.
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
Lisa Doughten, Director of Financing and Partnerships Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, briefs United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East (Yemen).
UN Security Council Meets to Disscuss...
Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), briefs the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Sudan and South Sudan.
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
Dennis Francis, President of the seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly, addresses the UN Security Council meeting on maintenance of international peace and security.
UN Security Council Meets on Women,...
Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, Assistant Secretary-General for Africa in the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, speaks at the United Nations Security Council meeting on women and peace and security.
UN General Assembly Holds High-level Forum...
Andrea Carstensen, Representative of the Global Youth Caucus on SDG16 of the Major Group for Children and Youth, speaks during the United Nations General Assembly High-level Forum on the Culture of Peace on the theme “Cultivating and nurturing the culture of peace for present and future generations”
Guided Tour of UN Headquarters for...
A view of visitors at the peace and security exhibit during a guided tour of the United Nations Headquarters.
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
Abdullah Ali Fadhel Al-Saadi, Permanent Representative of Yemen to the United Nations, addresses the UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East (Yemen).
A Malawi Orphanage Provides Shelter to...
The UN’s most recent figures for Malawi show that over 15% of children under the age of 18 are orphans, partly because of the high rate of HIV and Aids-related deaths in the country. Currently, a group called Zoe Foundation is working to provide these at-risk children a future.
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
Director of Coordination of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, briefs UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East (Syria).