DAMASCUS: A UN investigator expressed hope Thursday (Jan 9) of a "good relationship" with Syria's new rulers as he wrapped up ...

The United Nations says the world economy resisted battering by conflicts and inflation last year and is expected to grow a ...

North Korea benefiting from troops fighting alongside Russia, US issues grave warning - Pyongyang’s military ties with Russia ...

Global temperatures in 2024 soared to yet another record level, but this time it was such a big jump that Earth temporarily ...

The UN Human Rights Committee found 24 young detainees on Nauru experienced “cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment”. But are ...

A U.N. committee found that Australia violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, including minors ...

Attending the UN climate (COP28) and biodiversity (COP16) conferences during the past two years, it strikes this observer ...

Australia violated the rights of asylum seekers arbitrarily detained on the island of Nauru, a UN watchdog ruled Thursday, in a warning to other countries intent on outsourcing asylum processing.

Calls to formally recognize gender apartheid as a crime against humanity increase amidst growing edicts targeting the ...

In a memo to staff on Thursday, Washington Bureau Chief Anna Johnson announced that Farnoush Amiri will be joining the ...

Fink and other top executives had evangelized on the need to use the company’s investing might to force corporations to ...

On October 7, 2023, the decades-long conflict in the region experienced an unprecedented escalation when Hamas and other ...