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UN Security Council to Meet Sunday on Iran Attack after Israel Request

Objects are intercepted in the sky after Iran launched drones and missiles towards Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel April 14, 2024. (Reuters)
Objects are intercepted in the sky after Iran launched drones and missiles towards Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel April 14, 2024. (Reuters)
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UN Security Council to Meet Sunday on Iran Attack after Israel Request

Objects are intercepted in the sky after Iran launched drones and missiles towards Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel April 14, 2024. (Reuters)
Objects are intercepted in the sky after Iran launched drones and missiles towards Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel April 14, 2024. (Reuters)

The United Nations Security Council is set to meet on Sunday after Israel requested the council condemn Iran's attack on Israel and designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization.

The meeting will take place at 4 p.m. ET (2000 GMT), according to a schedule released late on Saturday.

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, requested the council hold an emergency meeting in a letter on Saturday to the council's president.

"The Iranian attack is a serious threat to global peace and security and I expect the Council to use every means to take concrete action against Iran," Erdan wrote in a post on X.

Iran launched a swarm of explosive drones and fired missiles at Israel late on Saturday in its first-ever direct attack on Israeli territory, risking a major escalation as the United States pledged "ironclad" backing for Israel.

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to all federal funding or support for healthcare that aids the transition of transgender youth, the latest in a series of actions limiting transgender rights in his first eight days in office.

The executive order, which is certain to face legal challenges, follows another executive order banning transgender people from service in the armed forces and others that appeal to Trump's most conservative supporters by limiting diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

The order fulfills a campaign promise to end "child sexual mutilation," an apparent reference to transgender-related healthcare such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy that help people transition from one gender to another.

"It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called 'transition' of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures," Trump's executive order said.

Trump supporters such as the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian law firm, applauded the order as "a refreshing return to sanity," while opponents such as Marci Bowers, a gynecologist and surgeon who provides transgender care, declared Trump would "have blood on his hands."