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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Asia Weekly: Readying Refugees for Resettlement
Exercises are conducted in the South China Sea by China, Russia, the US, and the Philippines.Taiwan says it will commit to bolstering own defenses. Thailand authorities investigate hotel poisoning deaths. Rare whale washes ashore in New Zealand.
Permanent Representative of United States to...
Representative of the United States to the United Nations, briefs reporters on the humanitarian situation in Sudan.
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
Ignazio Cassis, Federal Councillor and Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, addresses the United Nations Security Council meeting on maintenance of international peace and security, on the theme “Multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order”
Ministerial Opening of High-level Political Forum...
Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, addresses the ministerial opening of the High-level Political Forum 2024.
Northeastern Nigeria Fears Starvation,Death Due to...
In order to address the alarming rate of food insecurity in the war-torn northeast of Nigeria, the United Nations humanitarian organization says it is struggling to raise enough funds. According to officials, the growing number of global crises is making aid-dependent countries compete for limited resources
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
Mutryce Agatha Williams (right at table), Permanent Representative of Saint Kitts and Nevis to the United Nations, addresses the UN Security Council meeting on the question concerning Haiti.
Inauguration of Kusikawsay Monument
A young participant attends the unveiling of the Kusikawsay Monument, a gift from Colombia to the United Nations.
UN General Assembly Meets to Discuss...
A wide view of the United Nations General Assembly Hall as Dennis Francis (on screens and left at dais), President of the seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly, chairs the 98th plenary meeting of the General Assembly.
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
Vassily Nebenzia,Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation and President of the United Nations Security Council for the month of July, chairs the UN Security Council meeting on maintenance of international peace and security.