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On This Day in History, July 1: Terminator 2 premiers, Dominion of Canada is formed, Bretton Woods Conference opens, Hong Kong returns to China, Sony Walkman debuts, Princess Diana is born and other key eventsOn This Day in History, July 1 marks a date shaped by major military campaigns, nation-building, scientific breakthroughs and cultural mile...
Tony Awards 2026: Full winners list as Broadway celebrates a stellar seasonThe 2026 Tony Awards celebrated Broadway's finest on Sunday night. Liberation won Best Play. Schmigadoon! secured Best Book of a Musical. J...
US Secretary of State Blinken says Russia plans to share advanced satellite tech with North KoreaSecretary of State Antony Blinken stated that the US believes Russia is expanding space cooperation with North Korea in return for North Ko...
US supports two permanent UN Security Council seats for AfricaThe United States supports adding two permanent U.N. Security Council seats for African states and one rotating seat for small island devel...
UN likely to vote Tuesday on Gaza ceasefire, US signals vetoThe United Nations Security Council is likely to vote on Algeria's draft resolution for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-H...
UN Security Council demands Gaza aid deliveries 'at scale'After days of delays, the resolution also called for the creation of "conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities" but did not ca...
US vetoes UN resolution condemning Hamas attacks on Israel and all violence against civiliansThe United States has vetoed a UN resolution condemning Hamas' attacks on Israel and calling for humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza. ...
Russia loses election to three UN bodies over UkraineThe votes in the 54-member U.N. Economic and Social Council follow approval of six non-binding resolutions against Russia by the 193-member...
Hope India will lift wheat export curbs after UNSC meet: US"India will be one of the countries participating in our meeting at the Security Council, and we hope that they can, as they hear the conce...
UN to vote on suspending Russia from Human Rights CouncilTwo-thirds of the countries who cast votes in the 193-member assembly must support suspension for Russia to be temporarily removed from the...
U.S. pushes to suspend Russia from Human Rights CouncilA two-thirds majority vote by the 193-member assembly in New York can suspend a state from the council for persistently committing gross an...
There will be consequences for China if it decides to provide substantial military or financial support to Russia: US Ambassador to UNIn a call with China's President Xi Jinping on Saturday, US President Joe Biden "detailed the implications and consequences" if Beijing wer...
Russia using UN to spread propaganda, Western states say"Russia is once again attempting to use this council to launder its disinformation, spread its propaganda, and justify its unprovoked and b...
Vladimir Putin's nuclear alert 'totally unacceptable': US"This is a pattern that we've seen from President Putin through the course of this conflict, which is manufacturing threats that don't exis...
US envoy says Putin testing how far he can pushLinda Thomas-Greenfield told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Monday night that this move and Putin's earlier announcem...
9/11 Memorial site should remind us of collective resolve to fight terrorism: IndiaThe 15-nation Council issued a press statement on Thursday on the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, recalling that th...
We must all ensure Afghanistan cannot ever, ever again be a base for terrorism: US in UNSCThe Taliban swept into Kabul on Sunday after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, bringing an end to a two-decade campaign in which the...
India, US reaffirm strategic partnership at bilateral meeting of UN envoysNewly appointed US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield met India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti as ...
Senate confirms Joe Biden's choice for UN ambassadorThomas-Greenfield, a retired 35-year veteran of the foreign service who resigned during the Trump administration, will be the third African...
India's bid for permanent UNSC membership matter of discussion: Biden's UN ambassador nomineeThree previous administrations, that of George W Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, had publicly said that the United States supports Ind...