Headlines- After riots, looting, and arson during cost-of-living protests, over 1,800 people were arrested throughout France.
- Authorities have detained a number of people in connection with a deadly stampede in Kolkata, in eastern India.
- 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
- 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
During Tightly Controlled Visit, Ethiopia Denied...
Reports of ethnic cleansing and mass detention of Tigrayans have surfaced throughout Ethiopia’s civil war, particularly in the western Tigray region, where authorities have prevented rights groups and media from entering. VOA was granted rare but restricted access to the region, including several alleged detention and mass grave sites
Mozambique Elected to UN Security Council...
Mozambique’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Verónica Nataniel Macamo Dlhovo, speaks to reporters after the country was elected as a non-permanent member of the Security Council for the years 2023-2024
President-Elect of 77th UN General Assembly...
Csaba Krösi, President-elect of the United Nations General Assembly’s seventy-seventh session, speaks to reporters at UN Headquarters after being elected President of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
Pramila Patten, the Secretary-special representative of United Nations Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, addresses the Security Council meeting on Ukraine’s peace and security on June
Ahead of Security Council Meeting,President of...
Edi Rama, Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania and President of the Security Council for the month of June, speaks to reporters before of the Security Council meeting on strengthening accountability and justice for serious international law violations
Officials Open Mosques in Xinjiang Cities...
Officials in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region opened long-closed mosques in the two cities visited last week by the United Nations human rights chief to give the appearance of normalcy despite a severe crackdown on the religion and culture of Muslim Uyghur residents, local police officers and government officials said
Security Council Committee 1540 Open Consultations
The open consultations of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to Resolution 1540 (2004) on the comprehensive review of the status of the resolution’s implementation are chaired by Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramirez, chair of the 1540 Committee and Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations
In Geneva, Syria’s Constitutional Committee Meets
The Syrian Constitutional Committee’s Government Co-Chair, Ahmad Kuzbari, attends a meeting of the Committee in Geneva
Wreath Laying in Honor of UN...
On the occasion of the International Day of UN Peacekeepers 2022,United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (left) attends a wreath-laying ceremony
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
United Nations Security Council meeting on the protection of civilians in armed conflict is chaired by Linda Thomas-Greenfield (left), Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of May