ISTANBUL China launched a broadside attack against acts that target children in conflict zones as the US first lady Melania Trump presided over a session of the UN Security Council in New York, amid regional escalation in the Middle East which left dozens of girl students dead in Iran. The sitting Monday of the top UN body came two days after US-Israeli airstrikes Saturday killed dozens of students in the southern Iranian city of Minab, according to Tehran. It is first time that any first lady