
World faces 'stress test' of dangerous conflicts and climate change
Huge security threats loom from the crisis in Yemen to Afghanistan's fighting to the U.S.-China trade war.
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Huge security threats loom from the crisis in Yemen to Afghanistan's fighting to the U.S.-China trade war.
Japan will leave the International Whaling Commission, which will drop to 88 members, and resume whaling in April.
Their strikes were not affiliated with any political party, but they helped rally support for efforts by international organizations to promote global cutbacks in carbon emissions.
The non-binding deal tries to solve some of the polarizing but age-old issues surrounding people crossing borders.
In the past year at least 80 journalists were killed, 348 were detained in prison and 60 were taken as hostages.
The effort accompanied a similar pact for migration that the U.N. General Assembly also approved this month.
Negotiators overcame a deadlock on a crucial element about how nations must report their greenhouse gas emissions.
Despite UNAIDS' insistence on urgency, its leader announced he would wait to resign his position until the end of next June.
The summit is supposed to work out a "rulebook" for nations to follow to fulfill their Paris Agreement climate pledges.
Corruption has wide-ranging impacts. Transparency International says ordinary people can fight back.
An independent panel says the embattled U.N. agency is rife with sexual harassment, bullying and abuse of power.
Ahead of U.N. climate talks, studies show carbon dioxide released in 2018 will be the biggest increase in seven years.
Instagram is the fastest-growing social media network among leaders, organizations and governments and the third most popular for global diplomacy after Twitter and Facebook.
As 200 nations gathered for climate talks, international health experts reported the slow pace of reducing greenhouse gas emissions puts lives and health care systems at risk.
China is responsible for much of the growth as innovation becomes the main intellectual property battleground.
Qatar joined OPEC in 1961 and has been its 11th biggest producer, putting out 600,000 barrels of crude oil a day.