US President Donald Trump on Tuesday addressed world leaders at the 80th session of the United Nation’s General Assembly. Here’s his full speech: “I feel very happy to be up here with you nevertheless, and that way you speak more from the heart. I can only say that whoever is operating this teleprompter is in … Read more
US President Donald Trump faced two unexpected disruptions during his visit to the United Nations headquarters in New York on Tuesday. An escalator at the building stopped abruptly as he and First Lady Melania Trump stepped onto it, and later, during his speech to the General Assembly, his teleprompter malfunctioned. Trump and Melania arrived hand … Read more
Representative image | Photo Credit: Reuters The UN General Assembly on Tuesday (August 26, 2025) created an Artificial Intelligence (AI) advisory body to help countries make decisions about the revolutionary technology. Member States said they were concerned about the swift development of a life-changing tool they fear could threaten democracy and human rights. So in … Read more
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said the authorities in Tehran were reviewing a draft espionage bill that would redefine “collaboration with hostile states”. File | Photo Credit: Keystone via AP The United Nations urged Iran on Monday (July 28, 2025) to stop using the death penalty, citing a “worrying surge in executions” … Read more
Dubai: A Liberian-flagged cargo ship attacked by Yemen‘s Houthi rebels sank on Wednesday in the Red Sea, and a European naval force in the Mideast said only six of the 25 people who were on board have been rescued. The attack on the Eternity C, which also killed at least three of the crew, represents … Read more
Israeli gunfire killed at least 17 Palestinians and wounded dozens as thousands of displaced people approached an aid distribution site of a U.S.-backed humanitarian group in central Gaza on Tuesday, local health authorities said. Medics said the casualties were rushed at two hospitals, the Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, and the Al-Quds … Read more
Iran on Wednesday said it may consider allowing US inspectors with the United Nations nuclear watchdog to inspect its facilities if a deal is reached with the United States. Iran has long been accused by Western powers of seeking to develop nuclear weapons, a claim Tehran has consistently denied, insisting its nuclear programme is solely … Read more
The Trump administration has decided that the UN agency for Palestinian refugees is not immune from being sued, reversing the US government’s longstanding position that the organisation was protected from civil liability. The Justice Department revealed its new stance in a letter it filed in federal court in New York on Thursday as part of … Read more
President Trump has ordered the U.S. government to take a major step toward mining vast tracts of the ocean floor, a move that is opposed by nearly all other nations, which consider international waters off limits to this kind of industrial activity. The executive order, signed Thursday, would circumvent a decades-old treaty that every major … Read more
A video recording, discovered on the cellphone of one of the paramedics who was found along with 14 other aid workers in a mass grave in the Gazan city of Rafah in late March and obtained by The New York Times, shows that the ambulances and fire truck that they were traveling in were clearly … Read more