Headlines- While Iran's economy, military, and leadership have all significantly deteriorated, US President Donald Trump claims that the Strait of Hormuz is in "extremely good shape," adding that "it doesn't mean we won't smack them to see what happens."
- An apparent mentally unstable woman was shot and killed by New York City police after allegedly stabbing two people in Times Square.
- Leaders from more than a dozen countries, including Iran's Masoud Pezeshkian, China's Xi Jinping, India's Narendra Modi, and Russia's Vladimir Putin, gathered in Kyrgyzstan on Monday for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit.
- On Monday, Pedro Sanchez, the prime minister of Spain, accused Russian and Israeli-linked social media platforms of spreading disinformation regarding the July refugee crisis in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
- On Monday, US President Donald Trump's administration was given permission by the US Supreme Court to proceed with the $400 million White House ballroom construction project.
- At least 750 people killed and another 3000 went missing on Wednesday after landslides caused by a glacial collapse unleashed a torrent of mud and water across Nepal and China's autonomous region of Tibet.
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UN General Assembly Debates the Fifth...
Courtenay Rattray, High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and Small Island Developing States, speaks at the Preparatory Committee for the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries’ second session (LDC5)
Many Hurdles on the Way to...
Holding perpetrators of genocide in hina, Myanmar, and elsewhere accountable for atrocities is a worldwide goal but there are many obstacles to seeking justice through courts, panelists told a Washington hearing this week
Press Briefing by the President of...
Following Security Council meetings, Nicolas de Rivière, France’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the month’s President of the Security Council, briefs reporters
UN Security Council Convenes to Discuss...
Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, speaks at a Security Council meeting about the Middle East situation
The United Nations Security Council Meets...
Ammar Mohammed Mahmoud Mohammed, Counsellor at the Sudanese Mission to the UN, speaks at a Security Council meeting about the Situation in Sudan and South Sudan
Unpacking Refugee Life
The United Nations signed the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees in 1951 to define who a refugee is. Its initial goal was to protect millions of European refugees fleeing World War II. It changed the treaty to apply to refugees “without regard to geography.”
UN General Assembly Debates Poverty Eradication...
The Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to the United Nations, Rabab Fatima, speaks at a United Nations General Assembly meeting on “Poverty eradication and other development issues” and “Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social, and related fields”
The United Nations General Assembly Meets...
Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres’ Chef de Cabinet, speaks at a General Assembly discussion on the International Decade for People of African Descent’s midterm assessment
UN Deputy Secretary-General Meets with Costa...
Epsy Campbell Barr, Vice President of Costa Rica, meets with United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
Amina Mohammed, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, speaks at a Security Council meeting on the protection of people in armed conflict, with a focus on humanitarian space