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Al Arabiya
34 minutes ago
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- Al Arabiya
Israel tells UN Security Council ‘we will not stop' Iran attacks
Iran said it would continue to defend itself against Israel during a UN Security Council session on Friday, while Israel's UN ambassador vowed that his country would not stop its attacks until Iran's nuclear threat is dismantled. 'We will not stop,' Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon said. 'Not until Iran's nuclear threat is dismantled, not until its war machine is disarmed, not until our people and yours are safe.' Iran's UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani urged the Security Council to take action. 'Israel apparently declared that it will continue this strike for as many days as it takes. We are alarmed by credible report that the United States... may be joining this war,' he said.
Reuters
36 minutes ago
- Politics
- Reuters
Iraq says 50 Israeli warplanes planes violated its airspace
WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - Iraq's representative to the United Nations said 50 Israeli warplanes planes violated Iraqi airspace shortly before a U.N. meeting on the Israel-Iran conflict on Friday. Abbas Kadhom Obaid Al-Fatlawi, charge d'affaires of Iraq's U.N. mission, told the UN Security Council the aircraft came from the Syrian-Jordanian border areas. "Twenty airplanes started, followed by 30 airplanes heading to the south of Iraq, and they flew over Basra, Najaf and Karbala cities," he said. "These violations are violations of international law and the UN Charter," he said, adding: "They also constitute a threat to the sacred sites and regions which might cause strong popular reactions, considering the importance of these holy sites for our peoples."
NDTV
2 hours ago
- Politics
- NDTV
Kim Jong Un Sends 6,000 More To Kursk After Massive Troop Losses In Russia
North Korea is set to send 6,000 personnel, including combat engineers and military workers, to assist in reconstruction efforts in Russia's Kursk region, according to Moscow's top security official. The announcement was made during Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu's visit to Pyongyang, marking his second meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this month, highlighting deepening ties between the two nations. "Chairman of the State Affairs of the DPRK Kim Jong Un has decided to send 1,000 sappers to Russia to clear mines on Russian territory, as well as 5,000 military construction workers to restore infrastructure destroyed by the occupiers," Shoigu said, according to Russian state media TASS. According to Shoigu, Moscow and Pyongyang also plan to create memorials for the Korean soldiers who died while liberating the Kursk Region. "The heads of our states have decided to perpetuate the feat of the soldiers of the Korean People's Army who took part in the fighting. Specifically, we are talking about the unveiling of memorials in Russia and the DPRK in memory of the Korean soldiers who fell in the battles for the liberation of the Russian territory. In this regard, during the visit, the construction of a memorial complex with a museum in Pyongyang with the participation of the Russian side was discussed," he added. According to news agency TASS, Shoigu is visiting Pyongyang for the third time in nearly three months. He explained this frequency by a high pace of implementation of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement between Moscow and Pyongyang. "First of all, it is related to the intensity of implementation of this agreement, which was actually signed a year ago," he stressed. "The pace that has been set in the implementation of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership agreement, of course, requires constant attention and regular adjustments and decision-making at all levels." According to Business Insider, Kim initially sent some 12,000 troops in the fall of 2024 to Kursk, the oblast where Ukraine entered in August of that year and seized up to 500 square miles of Russian soil. Aided by Pyongyang's soldiers, the Kremlin's forces recaptured almost all of those gains by March 2025, effectively ousting Ukrainian forces from the region by late spring. On June 15, the UK Defense Ministry said in an intelligence update that it estimated that more than 6,000 North Korean troops had been killed or wounded in Kursk.
Bloomberg
2 hours ago
- Politics
- Bloomberg
UN Chief Calls for Diplomacy as Israel-Iran War Rages
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a return to negotiations to resolve the conflict between Israel and Iran, warning that the world is 'on course to potential chaos' if it expands. 'Let us not look back on this decisive moment with regret,' Guterres told the Security Council on Friday at an emergency meeting requested by Iran. 'Let us act — responsibly and together — to pull the region, and our world, back from the brink.'
Express Tribune
3 hours ago
- Politics
- Express Tribune
UN chief urges parties to 'give peace a chance' on Iran-Israel war
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during the Opening Ceremony of the United Nations climate change conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 12, 2024. PHOTO: REUTERS Listen to article UN Secretary-General António Guterres says expansion of Israel-Iran conflict could ignite a fire no one can control, " Speaking to an urgent meeting of United Nations Security Council, Guterres pleaded Friday with all sides to "give peace a chance" in the Iran-Israel conflict, warning that the violence could spiral out of control. "To the parties to the conflict -- the potential parties to the conflict -- and to the Security Council as the representative of the international community, I have a simple and clear message: Give peace a chance," Guterres said, in a veiled reference to the United States, which is considering intervening militarily to support Israel. Addressing a Security Council session on the war, Guterres said: "We are not drifting toward crisis -- we are racing toward it."
