Move over tobacco, air pollution is the next major public health target
As much as 91% of the world's population breathes unhealthy air, which is why it's the focus of a global health conference.
John Heilprin
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Postal union scrambles to address U.S. criticism on mail delivery rates
The action came days after the Trump administration said it intends to withdraw from the 144-year-old organization.
Global arms trade comes into focus on Saudi role in Khashoggi killing
Protesters urged more attention to global weapons sales in the wake of a journalist's murder in a Saudi consulate at Istanbul.
Turkey says treaty will allow unobstructed Khashoggi probe
Turkey's president said a treaty prevents the investigation of Jamal Khashoggi's murder inside the Saudi consulate from being 'concealed behind the armor of immunity.'
Anti-corruption forum links corrosive impact on democracy
At least 45 governments, businesses and organizations endorsed a 26-point pledge for preventing corruption.
Trump raises risk of arms race with U.S. exit from nuclear treaty
The Trump administration announced plans to withdraw the United States from the INF Treaty of 1987, and blamed Russia.
Groups urge U.N. murder investigation in Khashoggi case
The U.N. chief faces calls to order an independent investigation into Jamal Khashoggi's murder.
U.N. urges international cooperation in Khashoggi murder investigation
The U.N. human rights chief said the likely murder of Jamal Khashoggi would be a serious crime that should make Saudi Arabia and Turkey cooperate fully with investigators.
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.
A lab in space has become a platform for science diplomacy
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.
Trump administration's Nikki Haley to resign as U.S. ambassador to U.N.
The U.S. envoy to the U.N. will depart at the end of 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump announced without explaining why.
Experts dash false hopes that climate change won't bring misery
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.
Interpol chief is discovered in Chinese detention and quits his post
Meng Hongwei turned up in police custody and submitted his resignation while under investigation on unspecified corruption charges by China's ruling Communist Party.
Interpol's president seems to have vanished on a work trip to China
The world's largest international police organization has a politically-charged mystery to solve: its president is missing.
Nations agree to fishing ban allowing Arctic marine protections
Concerns about climate change's rapid rate of advance in the far north drove three years of talks on commercial fishing.
U.S. ordered by U.N. tribunal to lift some economic sanctions on Iran
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.