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
At UN Security Council, Africans Urge...
The African members of the U.N. Security Council urged their counterparts on Tuesday to support sanctions imposed this week on Mali’s coup leaders by a bloc of West African nations
UN Headquarters in the Snow
Outside the General Assembly building at UN Headquarters, a view of Henry Moore’s sculpture in the snow
Violations of Children’s Rights in 2021
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that this year has seen a surge in egregious abuses of children’s rights in both long-running and new conflicts.
Thousands of children have paid a terrible price as armed conflict, intercommunal violence, and insecurity have continued from Afghanistan to Yemen, Syria to northern Ethiopia, UNICEF said in a statement on December 31
Syria’s Civil War Has Come to...
In 2021, Syria’s civil war would have lasted ten years, with intermittent fighting and no end in sight. Analysts fear that the current impasses would result in violence, while locals believe that without development and security, the country will not be able to stabilise
UN Secretary-General Pays a Visit to...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is in Lebanon to reaffirm the UN’s assistance for the country and its people, including political teams, peacekeepers, humanitarian relief workers, and development professionals. The Secretary-General will meet with officials from the government, including President Michel Aoun and Speaker
UN Secretary-General Meets With US Special...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres talks with US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Change John Kerry
UN Security Council Holds a Meeting...
Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for Yemen, Hans Grundberg briefs the Security Council on the situation in Yemen
UN Secretary-General Meets With the President...
Guterres meets with Mona Juul, Norway’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the Security Council’s January President
UN General Assembly Meets to Discuss...
During the 50th plenary meeting of the General Assembly, Anna Karin Eneström, Sweden’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, introduces a draft resolution on “Strengthening of the coordination of the United Nations’ emergency humanitarian aid”
UN Secretary-General Meets With Members of...
Members of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity meet with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres