UNGA begins general debate to address global issues
Representatives from United Nations (UN) member states, including some 150 heads of state and government, will take turns at the podium of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to deliver an address on…

UNGA begins general debate to address global issues
Representatives from United Nations (UN) member states, including some 150 heads of state and government, will take turns at the podium of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to deliver an address on…

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi calls the Israeli regime’s and the United States illegal and unprovoked attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities in June “a dark and dangerous chapter” in the history of the…

Colombian President Gustavo Petro told the UNGA the world must end the “genocide in Gaza,” blasting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the US, and Europe as genocidal. He also tied US strikes on Caribbean boats to wider abuses…

“I agree with President Donald Trump.” Polish President Karol Nawrocki told the UN General Assembly that an “ideological madness” had taken over Europe in recent years, leading to “bad decisions on migration” and a “green…

Then, as now, Iran faced a grinding impasse: Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini resisted UN Resolution 598 which called for an end to hostilities until the cost of defiance became unbearable.
The resolution, passed on July 20, 1987, demanded a…

An Iranian Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter jet takes off during the Iranian air force military drill in the Tabriz Air Base near suburb of the city of Tabriz on Sunday, September 03, 2006. (Photo by Hossein Fatemi / Middle East Images / Middle East Images…

An Iranian Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter jet takes off during the Iranian air force military drill in the Tabriz Air Base near suburb of the city of Tabriz on Sunday, September 03, 2006. (Photo by Hossein Fatemi / Middle East Images / Middle East Images…

“The chances of reaching a diplomatic solution before the sanctions go into effect are slim,” German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul told reporters on Tuesday. “Iran must never obtain a nuclear weapon.”
But there was no sign of a…

Israeli forces killed at least 36 Palestinians on Tuesday as they pounded Gaza from the air and ground, as world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York demanded an end to the two-year war.
Residential buildings continue…

Kostas Koukoumakas in Athens and
Kostas Kallergis in Brussels
Getty ImagesIt has become known as Greece’s Watergate:…