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.
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UN Secretary-General Attends G20 Extraordinary Leaders’...
The G20 Extraordinary Leaders’ Meeting on Afghanistan is addressed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres
2021 Nobel Peace Prize: RSF Hails...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is very pleased that the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Ressa and Dmitri Muratov, two eminent and courageous journalists. This prize rewards all those who work with determination for free and independent information
UN Secretary-General and Director-General of WHO...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres participates in a virtual press conference on the Global COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy with Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO)
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and...
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [OCHA], Martin Griffiths, is sworn in by Secretary-General António Guterres
UN Security Council Meets on Situation...
United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo is chaired by Martin Kimani, Kenya’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of October. The Council hears the Secretary-report General’s on UN Organization Stabilization
UN Security Council Neets to Discuss...
T.S. Tirumurti, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, speaks at a Security Council meeting about Haiti
President of UN General Assembly Addresses...
Abdulla Shahid, President of the United Nations General Assembly’s seventy-sixth session, speaks to reporters after the General Assembly’s seventy-sixth session’s general discussion
UN Secretary-General Attends Virtually Pre-COP26 Ministerial...
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Participates in a Virtual Pre-COP26 Ministerial Plenary Meeting
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
The Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, particularly the Palestinian conflict, is chaired by Geraldine Byrne Nason, Ireland’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for September
Opening of UN High-Level Energy Dialogue
A view on the High-Level Energy Dialogue on September 24,2021. The Dialogue aims to address the twin crises of climate change and energy poverty by accelerating action toward clean, affordable energy for all