Headlines- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy issues a warning that the Strait of Hormuz is "closed," citing five tankers that have been hit since Friday.
- Four drones were intercepted and destroyed over the provinces of Riyadh, Eastern, and Southern, according to the coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
- The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen claims to have intercepted three drones in the southern and Riyadh regions, two cruise missiles over the Red Sea, and a ballistic missile headed for the Saudi city of Yanbu. In the
- Police and pritesters clashed during Saturday's large-scale protests across France over social injustice, exorbitant prices, and the condition of the educational system.
- Just two days before the new sanctions and tariffs on Russia mandated by the law named for the late Senator Lindsey Graham were scheduled to go into effect, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday waiving them.
- On Saturday afternoon, a car drove through a soccer match in Wichita, Kansas, killing a child and an adult and injuring numerous others.
Tag: United Nations
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
Prior to the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the UN meets Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, addresses United Nations Security Council Meeting on Maintenance of Peace and Security of Ukraine
Permanent UN Security Council Representatives Brief...
Following the Security Council meeting on Sudan and South Sudan, Enrique Ochoa, the Political Coordinator for Mexico’s Permanent Mission to the UN,and other Security Council members hold a press conference
UN Security Council Discusses Maintaining Global...
Speaking on “Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Promote Common Security Through Dialogue and Cooperation,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the Security Council
UN Secretary-General Visits Lviv’s Ivan Franko...
Ivan Franko National University in Lviv, Ukraine is visited by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres
UN High Commissioner Calls for Impartial,...
U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet urged Bangladesh’s government to probe alleged enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and torture committed by state-backed agencies, as she called on Wednesday for reforms to the nation’s security sector
Immigrant from Venezuela: “I Regret Having...
A pregnant Venezuelan citizen who spent four months walking across almost half of the continent regrets moving to the United States. She was met twice by VOA correspondent Divalizeth Cash in Delaware and Washington. Aline Barros, a VOA immigration correspondent, tells the story of this Venezuelan asylum seeker and her companion in the first of a two-part series
UN Human Rights Chief Advises Rohingya...
U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet advised Rohingya to wait for repatriation because the present situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state is not stable, according to refugees who met with her at camps in southeastern Bangladesh on Tuesday
UN Security Council Meeting on Yemen...
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ (OCHA) acting director of operations and advocacy, Ghada Mudawi, addresses the Security Council about the situation in the Middle East (Yemen)9
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
The United Nations Security Council meeting on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist activities is presided over by Zhang Jun, the Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of August