The UN is currently observing 218 international days (and more)! The tradition began long before the founding of the UN in 1945, but it wasn’t long before the Organization and its growing membership embraced designated days as a powerful tool for advocacy. Watch this classic video from 2017 celebrating the International Day of Happinesscelebrated on […]

Egyptian, US and Israeli officials will meet in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the reopening of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, almost a month after its closure, an Egyptian TV station said. Citing a high-level source, state-affiliated al-Qahera News TV reported on Saturday that Egypt is pushing for Israel’s full withdrawal from

A 24-year-old man has been charged over a pitch protest ahead of Scotland’s Women’s Euro 2025 qualifier against Israel at Glasgow’s Hampden Stadium. A protester was led away by police on Thursday evening after appearing to chain himself to the goalposts. The match was played behind closed doors as several hundred demonstrators gathered outside the

North Korea is sending more balloons containing trash and feces over its heavily fortified border into South Korea, the South Korean military said. It comes just days after North Korea appeared to send at least 200 balloons containing waste across the border in retaliation for propaganda leaflets sent from the South. South Korean Defense Minister

Drones targeted Russian soldiers crossing the Dnipro River on a jet ski, Ukraine said. The video, released by Ukraine’s 79th Border Guard, appears to show the attack. Russia uses an eclectic mix of vehicles, including motorcycles and golf cart-style buggies. Footage shared by Ukraine’s Defense Ministry appears to show Russian soldiers crossing the Dnipro River

Swimming in circles Last month, China sent four small zebrafish as stowaways to its Tiangong space station. And so far, according to the state-owned company Xinhua News Agencythe striped catch thrives in the microgravity environment of its heavenly space aquarium. That’s despite the fact that the astronauts aboard the station observed the fish “showing abnormalities

Germany’s anti-Islamic Pax Europa movement is planning further public rallies despite Friday’s knife attack in the city of Mannheim, which seriously injured a police officer. This Saturday, the group will set up a stand outside the train station in the city of Dortmund, in North Rhine-Westphalia, treasurer Stefanie Kizina told dpa. She expected that the

According to the South Korean military, North Korea launched more waste balloons towards the South after a similar campaign earlier this week, in what Pyongyang calls retaliation for activists flying anti-North Korean leaflets across the border. South Korea’s Defense Ministry did not immediately comment on how many balloons it had detected or how many had

PARIS (AP) — An environmental activist was arrested Saturday after sticking a protest sign over a Monet painting at Paris’ famed Musée d’Orsay. It was the last of a number of actions by demonstrators from the Food Riposte group focuses on works of art in France in calls for action to protect the food supply

If climate change By hitting disasters such as cyclones, floods and droughts more intensely, more frequently and in more places, fewer people worldwide are dying from these catastrophes thanks to better warnings, planning and resilience, a top United Nations official said. The world hasn’t really noticed that the kinds of storms that once killed tens