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.
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UN Secretary-General Meets With Norway’s Crown...
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, meets with Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon
Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan
A humanitarian crisis of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Afghanistan, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).
According to WFP, more than half of the population is hungry, and 3.2 million children are malnourished
UN Secretary-General Meets with AU Commission’s...
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, meets with Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission
Interview: ‘China Wants to Make Sure...
A United Nations whistleblower fired last week for accusing the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR ) of providing the names of Chinese government opponents and activists who sought accreditation to participate in U.N. activities has called for an external investigation of the body
UN Secretary-General Meets With the President...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres meets with Abdou Abarry, Permanent Representative of Niger to the United Nations and December President of the Security Council
Opening Of the World Health...
Omicron strain is “another reminder that, although many of us might think we’re done with COVID-19, it isn’t done with us,” WHO chief Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus warned at the beginning of a special session of the World Health Assembly.The World Health Assembly (WHA), which regularly meets in May, has been called to a special session for only the second time in its history
Flights From Libya to Italy For...
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) welcomed the evacuation of 93 asylum seekers to Italy from Libya on Thursday (November 25), where they had been living in precarious situations with uncertain futures
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
The Security Council meeting on the situation in Libya is chaired by Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramirez, Mexico’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the President of the Security Council for November
UN Headquarters in Fall
Next to the Japanese Peace Bell, a picture of a tree in Autumn colours. The UN Association of Japan has donated the Peace Bell to the United Nations
UN General Assembly Hears the Human...
President of the Human Rights Council and Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations in Geneva, Nazhat Shameem Khan, presents the General Assembly with a report from the Human Rights Council