Source: Council of the European Union (video statements)
Bought something online and changed your mind? EU consumer protection law gives you 14 days to return the item for a full refund, no reason needed. And on top of that, every product, bought online or in-store, comes with a minimum 2-year guarantee. Know your consumer rights before your next purchase.
Source: United States Department of Justice (video statements)
Attorney General Todd Blanche addressed the Justice Department workforce and shared his vision for the future of the Department.
Source: United Nations (video statements)
Briefing by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, on the situation in the Middle East.
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher told the Security Council that the “unacceptable severity” of Yemen’s humanitarian crisis “cannot become the new norm,” but lamented that funding shortages have “crippled” humanitarian operations.
Fletcher, for his part told the Council that Yemenis “face impossible, daily choices: food or medicine, education or work, survival or displacement,” and stressed that “the toll on women and girls is particularly alarming.”
Nearly 11 million women and girls require humanitarian support in Yemen, including 5.5 million women of reproductive age and over 750,000 pregnant women.
He told the Council that “over half the population is experiencing acute food insecurity” as six million people “face emergency levels of deprivation, bordering on famine.”
Fletcher said, “we know that aid saves lives. In 2025, we reached an average of 5.3 million people monthly in Yemen.”
With the humanitarian appeal just barely 20 percent funded, he added, “the calculation is simple: when funding drops, rations are cut, clinics close, and protection services disappear.”
Source: European Central Bank (video statements)
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Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers the keynote address at the SADC Summit Public Lecture.
Source: United Nations (video statements)
Informal comments to the media by Tawakkol Karman, Yemeni human rights defender and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, on the situation in the country (part of the stakeout is in Arabic).
Source: United Nations (video statements)
Briefing by Hans Grundberg, UN Special Envoy for Yemen, on the situation in the Middle East.
In his address to the Council, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg said, “Yemen today faces a more serious risk of return to large-scale conflict than at any point since the 2022 UN-mediated truce.”
Grundberg noted there has been “an intensification of military activity along frontlines, with recent attacks by Ansar Allah in Ma’rib, Hadramawt, Mokha and beyond causing casualties among both military personnel and civilians.”
“With regional trade and energy flows already under intense pressure from the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz,” he said, Ansar Allah’s attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden “risk deepening Yemen’s entanglement with the wider regional confrontation.”
The Special Envoy said, “for four years, and well beyond its formal expiry, the truce kept Yemen’s front lines relatively quiet. Remarkably, even through the regional turmoil since 2023, this calm mostly held inside Yemen.”
He emphasized that the truce “was designed as a means, not an end,” and its primary objective “was to open the way to negotiations on a comprehensive settlement of the conflict.”
Grundberg said, “a return to large-scale fighting in Yemen now would come at an unforgiving moment: with Yemen’s state institutions fragmented by over a decade of conflict, its economy left with little margin to absorb another shock, and the wider region engulfed by war.”
For Yemenis, he said, “renewed war would once again place every ordinary ambition to study, to work, to build a life, at the mercy of the fighting. It would mean a new generation sent to front lines, instead of having the chance to reimagine and remake their country’s future.”
Source: United States Department of Justice (video statements)
Today, AG Todd Blanche addressed the entire DOJ workforce for the first time as the 88th Attorney General of the United States. 🇺🇸
“I promise you that I will work as hard as any of you. I want people who want to do the right thing every day, and if you do that I will back you every step of the way. I can’t tell you how proud I am to stand with you.” -AG Todd Blanche
Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
President Cyril Ramaphosa in a bilateral meeting with the Global Champion for Girls Education and youngest Nobel Laureate, Ms Malala Yousafzal and a delegation of Afghan women leaders.
Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
Deputy Minister Kenny Morolong leads the Launch of the Milestones of Freedom in Cape Town
