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December 20, 2024 6:33 PM
More than 700 people have been killed in al-Fashir in Sudan's North Darfur state since May, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday, imploring the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to halt a siege of the city. The siege and "the relentless fi...
November 25, 2024 10:23 AM
As delegates from 175 countries gathered in Busan, South Korea on Monday for the fifth round of talks aimed at securing an international treaty to curb plastic pollution, lingering divisions cast doubts on whether a final agreement is in sight. Sout...
November 18, 2024 12:46 PM
Diplomatic tensions over global warming spilled over into the G20 summit negotiations in Brazil this week, with sources saying the 20 major economies reached a fragile consensus on climate finance that had eluded U.N. talks in Azerbaijan. Heads of s...
November 4, 2024 12:06 PM
Wealthy nations appeared to hit a limit with how much they are willing to pay to conserve nature around the world, instead shifting their focus at the two-week U.N. biodiversity summit toward discussions of private money filling the funding gap. At ...
September 25, 2024 7:54 PM
The United States will give a further $424 million in humanitarian help to the people of Sudan, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield announced on Wednesday. War erupted in mid-April last year from a power struggle between th...
May 7, 2024 5:26 PM
The Israeli military said on Tuesday it had taken operational control of the Palestinian side of Gaza's southern Rafah Crossing, which borders Egypt and has been pivotal for the delivery of aid and exit of injured people in the Gaza war. The militar...
January 15, 2024 2:00 PM
The 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) has commenced in Davos, Switzerland, convening leaders from around the world. Themed "Rebuilding Trust," the meeting will run from January 15 to January 19. Over the next five days, discussio...
October 21, 2023 6:23 PM
Leaders from around the world convened at the Cairo Peace Summit in Egypt on Saturday, addressing the ongoing Gaza crisis, which has raised fears of a broader conflict in the Middle East. Despite the absence of a high-ranking official from the United...
October 20, 2023 4:58 PM
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres flew to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Friday in a push to get aid flowing into the besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza but it was unclear when delivery of relief materials stockpiled in Egypt would start. In G...
October 20, 2023 3:35 PM
The conflict between Israel and Hamas may jeopardize already limited humanitarian resources needed in other parts of the world, a United Nations official said in Tokyo on Friday. Filippo Grandi, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said his agen...
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