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Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations, speaking at an emergency session of the UN Security Council on Monday, strongly condemned the US military aggression on Iranian soil, saying Tehran reserves the complete and lawful right to defend itself under international law. In a fiery speech, Amir Saeid Iravani said today marks yet another “shameful chapter in the political history …

The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is saying that it has established through communication with Iranian officials that the nuclear site in the city of Isfahan has not been impacted by the Israeli attacks. A fuel enrichment plant in Fordow had also not been affected as of yet, it said. Israeli fighter jets reportedly bombed the nuclear site in …

UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres addresses the opening session of the third United Nations Ocean Conference in the French city of Nice, on June 9, 2025.— AFP NICE: United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday the world could not let the deepest oceans “become the wild west,” at the start in France of a global summit on the …

The Iranian flag outside the IAEA headquarters during the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors meeting at the agency’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on November 20, 2024. —  AFP VIENNA: Western allies are planning to file a resolution to the world nuclear watchdog condemning Iran for “non-compliance” over its nuclear programme, diplomatic sources told AFP on Thursday. It is …

UN Security Council members criticized the United States Wednesday after it vetoed a resolution calling for a ceasefire and unrestricted humanitarian access in Gaza, which Washington said undermined ongoing diplomacy. It was the 15-member body’s first vote on the situation since November, when the United States — a key Israeli ally — also blocked a text calling for an end …

People attend a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, US, March 18, 2025. — Reuters UNGA elects Bahrain, Colombia, DRC, Latvia, and Liberia to UNSC. These all countries elected in uncontested slates. Germany’s Annalena Baerbock elected UNGA president. The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday elected Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, …

The United Sates sent Iran a proposal for a nuclear deal that the White House says is “acceptable” and in its “best interest” to accept, US media reported on Saturday. It came shortly after a UN report said the Islamic republic had stepped up production of highly enriched uranium. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said he was presented with “elements …

The United Nations logo is seen in the corridors of the United Nations headquarters in New York City. — AFP/File Staff asked to detail cuts in two weeks. Controller says nearly 7,000 jobs must be cut by 2026. Cuts to come as US owes UN $1.5 billion. The Cash-strapped United Nations is preparing to cut its $3.7 billion budget by …

Snow covers a rock as drifting broken sea ice, floats on the surface, off the extreme western point of Replot Island, in Kvarken archipelago, near Bjorkoby, in the northern part of the Baltic Sea on January 15, 2025. — AFP GENEVA: The United Nations warned on Wednesday there is a 70% chance that average warming from 2025 to 2029 will …

Jonathan Whittall, who heads the UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) in Gaza, has responded to Israeli claims that there was “no evidence to support claims of execution” in the killings of Palestinian paramedics last month. “Without accountability, we risk continuing to watch atrocities unfolding, and the norms designed to protect us all, eroding,” Whittall said in a statement. Israel’s military has …