Headlines
  • After gunfire outside the White House correspondents' dinner in Washington, DC, US President Donald Trump was evacuated.
  • After attending high-level discussions and presenting Pakistani officials with Tehran's list of demands for ending the war, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi left Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • US President Donald Trump has called off envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff's planned visit to Pakistan for peace talks with Iran.
  • An intercepted ship affiliated to the Iranian "shadow fleet" is being escorted back to Iran by a Navy helicopter, according to US Central Command (CENTCOM).
  • About ten minutes after he announced on Saturday morning that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner would not be traveling to Pakistan for diplomatic talks, US President Donald Trump claimed that Iran sent over a new peace offer that was "much better" than what they would have worked with going into the meeting.
  • On Saturday, Tuareg rebels and an Al-Qaeda affiliate took credit for synchronized operations throughout Mali.
  • In the first elections since the start of the Gaza war, Palestinians in the West Bank and central Gaza cast votes for local councils on Saturday.

Tag: United Nations

June 11, 2021

Press Briefing on New Emissions Reduction...

Sanda Ojiambo, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, and Paul Simpson, Chief Executive Officer of CDP (not pictured), update media on new findings from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), an organisation that helps businesses set aggressive carbon reduction targets on June

UNHCR Steps Up its Efforts to...

The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, said on Wednesday that the onset of winter, along with the disastrous consequences of COVID-19, posed a direct threat to the health and livelihoods of Venezuelans stranded in southern Latin America

June 9, 2021

United Nations Mladic Verdict Reaction

The appeals judgement in the case against Ratko Mladic, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb armed forces, was delivered by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals today

June 8, 2021

The 76th Session of the UN...

the United Nations General Assembly meeting where the President of the United Nations was elected, Secretary-General António Guterres (right) congratulates Abdulla Shahid (not pictured), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Maldives, President-elect of the United Nations General Assembly’s seventy-sixth session

June 6, 2021

Unitaid Calls For More Funding for...

The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator is a global cooperation aimed at speeding up the development, manufacture, and distribution of COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines

June 5, 2021

Celebrating World Environment Day 2021

Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), speaks during the UN Environment Day 2021 event on the subject “Reimagine. Recreate. Restore”

June 4, 2021

The UN Security Council Meets to...

Reena Ghelani, Deputy Director of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ Coordination and Response Division, updates the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East

June 3, 2021

UN General Assembly Special Session on...

President of the Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, Harib Saeed Al Amini, speaks at the United Nations General Assembly’s Special Session on Challenges and Measures to Prevent and Combat Corruption and Strengthen International Cooperation (2-4 June)

June 2, 2021

Assistance to the DRC Volcano Displaced...

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and its partners are supporting displaced individuals fleeing the DRC volcano eruption

May 29, 2021

Russia Condemns ‘Irresponsible Behaviour’ of Western...

(28 May), Russian Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy told journalists that “to say from the start” that the landing in Minsk of a Ryanair plane flying from Greece to Lithuania on Sunday and the subsequent arrest of blogger Raman Pratasevich was a “forced landing, to condemn it and to impose sanctions without any investigation; this kind of behaviour is absolutely irresponsible”

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