At UN, Leaders Confront COVID’s Impact on Global Education
With COVID-related school disruptions setting back children around the world, activists implored world leaders Monday to prioritize school systems and restore educational budgets slashed…
With COVID-related school disruptions setting back children around the world, activists implored world leaders Monday to prioritize school systems and restore educational budgets slashed…
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the Security Council on Ukraine, in New York today:Today marks a sad and tragic milestone —…
The devastating consequences of the war in Ukraine have spread far beyond the region’s borders.Coming on top of a world made ever more fragile…
KEY POINTS• Current situation: calm in all regions• July: rains started in summer breeding areas• August–September: above-normal rains likely in summer breeding areas for…
DUBAI –The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) today signed a regional…
Total economic losses caused by natural disasters hit an estimated $72 billion in the first half of 2022, fueled by storms and floods, Swiss…
South African police say a championship belt given by American professional boxer Sugar Ray Leonard to the country's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela,…
Ukrainian officials said Russian missiles struck the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia on Thursday, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100…
Olympic champion Mo Farah revealed in an article published Monday that he was brought to Britain illegally under the name of another child to…
A Spanish court has cleared the way for an autopsy to be conducted on Angola’s former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who died in…
The war in Ukraine and its impact on energy and food supplies dominated G-20 talks Friday in Bali.The G-20 host country called on ministers…
In 2021, extreme weather events and natural hazards cost the world US$343 billion in economic losses, the fourth highest year on record. Of these…