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.
Tag: Yemen
‘I’m still in Guantanamo 2.0,’ Says...
It’s been 20 years since the first war on terror prisoners arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba’s US military detention facility. Over the last two decades, at least 800 persons have been imprisoned there, the vast majority of whom have never been charged
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
UN Secretary-General Meets with Yemen’s Special...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and Hans Grundberg, the Secretary-Special General’s Envoy for Yemen, Meet
UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...
Mohamed Khaled Khiari, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General of the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations for the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific, updates the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East (Yemen)
UN Emergency Livelihoods Support in Yemen
eopardising the food security and livelihoods of millions of Yemenis.Rhe government’s necessary COVID-19 restriction measures, enacted to prevent the virus’s transmission, have exacerbated food supply and access at the home level
Oscar-Nominated Documentary ‘Hunger Ward’ Chronicles Child...
The Oscar-nominated documentary “Hunger Ward,” by award-winning filmmaker Skye Fitzgerald, chronicles doctors’ struggle to save lives of starving children in conflict-ridden Yemen
Press Conference Following High-Level Pledging Event...
Mark Lowcock, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, speaks during the press conference following the virtual high-Level pledging event for the humanitarian situation in Yemen
Childhood Malneutration In Yemen
Nearly 2.3 million children under the age of five in Yemen are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, four United Nations agencies warned
Children Malneutrition 2021
UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is deeply concerned for the health and well-being of 10.4 million children projected to suffer from acute malnutrition next year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), northeast Nigeria, the Central Sahel, South Sudan and Yemen
Yemen Hunger
The window to prevent famine in Yemen is narrowing as new figures reveal record highs of acute food insecurity in the country, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF warned on 3 December.