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The U.N. postponed an urgent vote set for Friday on approving the use of “defensive” force to protect shipping transiting the embattled Strait of Hormuz from Iranian attacks because of a mix-up over the date.

The government of Saudi Arabia confirmed that it successfully shot down dozens of Iranian drones, and at least two ballistic missiles, on Thursday and Friday, condemning Tehran for its continued attacks on nearly all of its Middle Eastern neighbors.

China’s state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times declared on Tuesday that First Lady Melania Trump’s leadership at a U.N. Security Council meeting the day before — an unprecedented act for a presidential spouse — drew “backlash from international society” for alleged hypocrisy amid the ongoing war with Iran.

Venezuela’s socialist Maduro regime has requested an urgent U.N. Security Council meeting to address President Donald Trump’s order to impose a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela.

The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution on Monday in support of President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan in Gaza, and Trump has been named chairman of the Board of Peace.

The United Nations Security Council voted almost unanimously on Thursday to lift sanctions on Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, an al-Qaeda affiliated jihadist who led the terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) before seizing power in Damascus.

The United States on Tuesday prepared a draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) that would lift sanctions against Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Interior Minister Anas Khattab ahead of their visit to the White House on November 10.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry declared during its regular press briefing on Monday that it “expect[s]” United Nations member countries to simply ignore the reimposition of sanctions on the rogue Islamist regime the Security Council approved in late September.

The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) on Tuesday approved a U.S. proposal to add more personnel and funding to the security mission in Haiti, which has been overrun by violent gangs ever since the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in July 2021.

The speaker of Iran’s Parliament, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, threatened foreign countries on Sunday that choose to abide by restored United Nations sanctions on the rogue state, insisting Iran will enact a “reciprocal response” to reduced economic engagement.

Iranian state media on Friday announced the regime in Tehran has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Russia’s state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, to build four nuclear power plants in Iran. The deal is valued at roughly $25 billion.

At a U.N. Security Council (UNSC) meeting on Wednesday, several countries that share ideological interests with the Taliban, or have financial interests in Afghanistan, urged the council to “engage” with the junta despite its absolute refusal to comply with U.N. human rights standards.

Chinese officials and state media reacted with outrage when Ukraine rejected Chinese participation in postwar security.

The Syrian Interior Ministry said on Monday it would investigate a shocking video that showed four men in military fatigues executing an unarmed man in medical scrubs at the main hospital in Sweida, the Druze-dominated city at the heart of recent factional violence.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi declared his country’s support for the “national sovereignty and dignity” of Iran after meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen claimed on Thursday that “a number of the ship’s crew” from the cargo ship Eternity C have been kidnapped and are being held in a “safe location” after Houthi drones and grenades destroyed the ship on Tuesday.

Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), on Friday offered to travel to Iran and assess the damage to its nuclear sites following Israel’s airstrikes.

For the first time in nearly 20 years, the IAEA has formally declared Iran in breach of its nuclear non-proliferation obligations.

India’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday ordered several states, including the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region and areas close to the Pakistani border, to conduct civilian defense drills amid rising tensions with Pakistan.

Frozen out of peace talks between the U.S. and Russia after years of posturing as a peace broker for the Ukraine war, China complained on Wednesday that the world is paying too much attention to the Ukraine conflict while ostensibly ignoring issues such as the plight of the Palestinians.

At least 13 U.N. peacekeepers and other foreign soldiers were killed in heavy fighting near the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Sunday, as the M23 insurgent group closed in on the strategically vital city.

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said on Monday that up to half of Haiti’s armed gang members are children, employed as “informants, cooks and sex slaves” in addition to being “forced to perpetrate violence.”

Dr. Hanan Hamdan, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) representative for Egypt, said this weekend the burden of more than 1.2 million refugees from the brutal civil war in Sudan is “unsustainable.”

The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) issued a statement on Wednesday that “strongly warned” Israel against “any attempts to dismantle or diminish” the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) – the Palestinian relief agency that has been repeatedly linked to the terrorists of Hamas.

The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting on Monday called by the world’s premier state sponsor of terrorism, Iran, in which Tehran’s allies condemned Israel for strikes targeting its missile manufacturing sites and other core military facilities.

The United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) said on Tuesday that the situation in the impoverished and violence-torn nation has “regrettably worsened” because ambitious gangs are now attacking territory they do not control yet, rather than merely terrorizing people on the turf they already rule.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spent over half of his very lengthy address to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday criticizing Israel for its war against the terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah. Erdogan accused the Israelis of genocide, compared them to Nazi Germany, and demanded the U.N. authorize “coercive measures against Israel” to halt the war in Gaza.

U.N. experts warn the Islamic State and its affiliates are gaining power in West Africa and the Sahel region.

A Kenyan Interior Ministry official said a force of police officers is finally ready to depart for Haiti after almost a year of hurdles.

Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama, and Somalia were elected by the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday to serve two-year terms on the U.N. Security Council (UNSC), taking over five rotating “non-permanent” membership slots from Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Switzerland, and Mozambique.

The world’s most powerful nations have significantly undermined what the United Nations can do to help nations resolve conflicts, the globalist organization’s peacekeeping chief lamented Wednesday.

Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar reaffirmed in comments on Tuesday that the government of Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a permanent spot at the United Nations Security Council “as soon as possible,” but that the goal will take time due to resistance from the current permanent members.

Multiple reports on Tuesday indicated that representatives from Algeria had prepared a draft resolution for the United Nations Security Council that would demand Israel stop its self-defense operations against the terrorist group Hamas in Gaza.

The American representative at the United Nations Security Council on Monday, Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood, urged the body to “call out Iran” in an attempt to curb the rampant terrorist activity by Yemen’s Houthi movement in the Red Sea.

Haiti’s recently-empaneled transitional council announced on Saturday that it will vote for a new president on Tuesday, five days after Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s resignation left the country without official leadership.