On the occasion of this year's International Women's Day celebrations, African Union Commission ( AUC ) president Moussa Faki Mahamat called for increased participation of women and girls in the field of technology.

Unusually, Chinese leader Xi Jinping criticized the United States with direct and public comments.

 China’s new Foreign Minister Qin Gang warned Tuesday that “conflict and confrontation” with the United States is inevitable if Washington does not change course, delivering a stern and wide-ranging rebuke of US policies for his first press conference in the new role.

Russian representative Irina Tyazhlova declared earlier that the Russian delegates to the UN couldn't enter the USA because the latter side had denied entry visas to several Russian delegates to the session of the UN open-ended working group on cybersecurity.