Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Thursday that he had no intention of attending the United Nations General Assembly floor debate next week, to which he is invited despite not being the legal head of state of the country.
The head of the United Nations on Thursday called for a meeting of key countries late next month to tackle the Amazon forest fires, which he called a “very serious situation.”
A South Korean lawmaker suggested on Tuesday that, following this weekend’s surprise meeting on the Korean border with U.S. President Donald Trump, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un may choose to attend the U.N. General Assembly’s general debate in September.
Malaysia’s decision to ban Israeli swimmers from joining a qualifying event for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics has been called “disappointing” by Olympic organizers.
BEIRUT— Lebanon’s president says his country will confront any Israeli aggression, the latest volley in a war of words over Israeli accusations of secret Hezbollah rocket sites near the Beirut airport.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif used a CBS interview on Sunday to acknowledge the Holocaust before saying it is no justification for what he called “an apartheid policy in Palestine.”
The United Nations is to vote later this week for a climate treaty “on steroids” – stronger, more all-encompassing and more legally binding than the ailing Paris accord.
