Headlines- Maxime Prevot, the foreign minister of Belgium, said on Saturday that Palestinians, Catholic delegates, and Western diplomats and officials had been attacked by masked settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
- Three men were sentenced to more than 158 years in prison by a Mexican court on Friday for the 2024 murders of two Australian surfers and their American companion.
- 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
- said it is targeting Houthi positions in Taiz and Marib.
- A missile attack on Aden International Airport put 151 passengers on a Yemenia flight headed for Cairo in danger, the transport minister of Yemen's internationally recognized government said.
- The Amazon rainforest in Brazil has seen the least amount of deforestation in almost 40 years.
- Heidi Levine, a journalist for the Washington Post, was injured on Friday after being assaulted by some Israeli settlers while working in the occupied West Bank.
- Ahead of the country's April 2027 presidential election, French President Emmanuel Macron claimed on Wednesday that political forces are "exploiting" the country's student protesters..
- Authorities said at a press conference that the mass shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday that claimed the lives of three students and one teacher occurred inside a special needs classroom. They also identified the suspected shooter and some of the victims.
Tag: United Nations
UN General Assembly Meets on Prevention...
Catherine Marchi-Uhel, Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011, addresses the United Nations General Assembly meeting
Opening of UN Permanent Forum on...
Volkan Bozkir, President of the seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, addresses the opening of 20th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)
Afghan Refugees Smart ID Cards
Pakistan launched a drive on Thursday to issue smart identity cards to some 1.4 million registered Afghan refugees, in what will be a vast national campaign to verify data and improve access to critical services
UN Secretary-General Holds Climate Conversation with...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres holds a virtual climate conversation with youth activists Paloma Costa from Brazil (left on screen) and Marie Christina Kolo from Madagascar
Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Briefs Press
Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General, briefs reporters on April 15,2021- UN Photo by Evan Schneider
UN Security Council Holds Open Debate...
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, addresses the open debate with Security Council members in connection with women and peace and security and sexual violence
2021 ECOSOC Forum on Financing for...
Munir Akram, President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations, chairs the 2021 ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development
Focus on Refugees: Mozambique
Displaced by attacks in Mozambique’s Palma, thousands of people are struggle with trauma and devastating loss, according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR)
Co-chairs of Group of Friends on...
Margo Dieye, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Nauru to the UN, brief reporters on Climate and Security
Commemoration of International Day of Reflection...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the commemoration of the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda