UN Security Council holds emergency meeting last night in response to North Korean ballistic missile fire Council members issued a statement condemning the firing of two Pyongyang ballistic missiles from a train on Wednesday, calling it a serious threat to neighbors.

The two-day meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization began in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan Focusing on the Afghan crisis is the main agenda of the meeting Ibrahim Raisi, as well as Pakistani leaders, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan will attend the meeting in person, as well as Russian, Chinese and Indian leaders.
The US Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations at a Security Council meeting condemned the attacks by Bashar al-Assad's government in Daraa, which resulted in the killing and displacement of civilians and food and medicine shortages. Pressure is used in firearms negotiations

SpaceX has launched the world's first spacecraft, all four of which are non-professional passengers. Launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the spacecraft soars to an altitude of 575 km and lands in the Atlantic Ocean three days later.

French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted that French forces had killed ISIL leader Walid al-Sahrawi in sub-Saharan Africa. Macron called the event "another great success" in the fight against terrorist groups in the desert