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Added on the 23/10/2021 - Copyright : tv shinjuku
Election officials at a polling station in the northern city of Shamli pack and seal electronic voting machines as the first of seven voting stages closes in the world's biggest election. IMAGES
"Neither the region nor the world can afford more war," United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns at the top of a Security Council meeting on Iran's attack on Israel. SOUNDBITE
The spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General says that Antonio Guterres extends his condolences to the staff of the World Central Kitchen following an Israeli strike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza. SOUNDBITE
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says that Israel's military campaign in Gaza has turned the territory into the world's "greatest open-air graveyard". Borrell's comment comes as he arrives in Brussels for a meeting of EU foreign ministers. SOUNDBITE
French MPs and Senators meeting in the Congress of Versailles have overwhelmingly voted to enshrine the right to abortion in the Constitution, announced the Speaker of the House, Yael Braun-Pivet, making France the first country in the world to do so explicitly. IMAGES