Report on global aid finds lives saved equal to twice the U.S. population
The ONE Campaign says at least 669 million people worldwide would have needlessly died between 1990 and 2016.
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The ONE Campaign says at least 669 million people worldwide would have needlessly died between 1990 and 2016.
There's mounting evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. But the two nations are brought together through the diplomacy of shared pursuits in space.
The U.S. envoy to the U.N. will depart at the end of 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump announced without explaining why.
The Nobel Prize-winning U.N. panel on climate change said it's life or death for much of the planet as soon as 2040.
Meng Hongwei turned up in police custody and submitted his resignation while under investigation on unspecified corruption charges by China's ruling Communist Party.
The world's largest international police organization has a politically-charged mystery to solve: its president is missing.
Concerns about climate change's rapid rate of advance in the far north drove three years of talks on commercial fishing.
Judges ruled that sanctions reinstated by the Trump administration breached a 1955 treaty between Iran and the United States that predates Iran's Islamic Revolution.
The "Books for Blind" Marrakesh Treaty championed by United Nations Messenger of Peace Stevie Wonder will have 70 member nations when the European Union is added.
A new review of U.N. whistleblowing policies and practices by the U.N.'s Joint Inspection Unit showed little improvement from retaliation cases reported more than a decade earlier.
Low- and middle-income countries and the poorest and most vulnerable populations worldwide are the hardest hit.
The special gathering at U.N. headquarters in New York highlighted the many challenges to press freedoms globally.
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands said the losses between 1970 and 2015 pose a serious threat to the "world's most valuable ecosystem" with a huge amount of biodiversity.
At the U.N. General Assembly, U.S. President Donald Trump unleashed a vicious attack on the U.S.-hosted world body that he described as a largely usesless "global bureaucracy."
The picture is complicated by safety and environmental concerns and IAEA's dual roles as watchdog and promoter.
Russia and Turkey plan to allow a 'war on terror' to continue against fighters living near civilians in the Idlib region.