Guterres briefs on Gaza; Asia-Pacific leaders warn of ‘climate catastrophe’; delegates sign major treaties
By Muhammad Ayub The Gaza crisis remains a focal point, prompting the Security Council to hold a high-level meeting on the war-torn region. While world leaders presented their national statements in the General Assembly Hall, delegates at the UN’s M ...
“Crisis Erupting in Lebanon,” Guterres Warns Security Council
By Muhammad Ayub UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged the Security Council on Wednesday to "act in unison" to halt the rising violence between Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants along the Blue Line in southern Lebanon. The UN Secretary ...
As violence continues in Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan, and tensions rise in the Middle East, world leaders and UN officials at the General Assembly’s annual debate voiced serious concerns that deepening geopolitical divides are hindering progress on key global issues, including peace and climate change. Many emphasized that a brighter future relies on decisive and united multilateral action, urging a renewed commitment to the principles of the UN Charter
France convened a special meeting of the UN Security Council to address the worsening crisis in Lebanon, where tensions between Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants have intensified along the Blue Line. UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged C ...
Russia can’t win on the battlefield, so it’s finding other ways to torment Ukrainian civilians, Zelenskyy
By Muhammad Ayub In a poignant address to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asserted that Russia, unable to defeat Ukraine militarily, is resorting to tactics aimed at undermining the nation' ...
Stop global warming to turn the tide on sea level rise: UN Assembly President
In a critical assembly on Wednesday, United Nations Member States convened to address the alarming acceleration of global sea level rise, the fastest recorded in the past 3,000 years. UN General Assembly President Philémon Yang emphasized the gravity ...
Lebanon says 23 killed in fresh Israeli strikes
Lebanon has said 23 people have been killed and dozens injured in Israeli strikes across the country on the third day of major Israeli raids as fighting with Hezbollah has intensified, AFP reports. Hezbollah earlier said it had fired a ballistic mis ...
UN’s Guterres urges global solutions as uncertain world edges toward a ‘powder keg’
The world is locked in a “purgatory of polarity” with a growing number of governments and others feeling entitled to a “get out of jail free card”, Secretary-General António Guterres told the UN General Assembly, which opened its annual high-level me ...
The world is at an inflection point but ‘there’s always a way forward’, says Biden
United States President Joe Biden told leaders at the United Nations on Tuesday that with the world at a historical inflection point “our task, our test, is to make sure that the forces holding us together are stronger than those that are pulling us ...
Lt Gen Asim Malik appointed new DG ISI: state media
Lieutenant General Muhammad Asim Malik has been appointed as the Inter-Services Intelligence director general and will take charge on September 30. Gen Malik is currently serving as an adjutant general at the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the ...