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Cyclones in Mozambique affect 1 million kids in 'worrisome' trend
Extreme weather events are rising in frequency and intensity, disproportionately hitting poor countries and communities.
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Extreme weather events are rising in frequency and intensity, disproportionately hitting poor countries and communities.
Despite fears about being weighed down with too much debt, developing nations embraced the infusion of Chinese cash.
The U.N. and other organizations urged the nation to immediately release the two Reuters journalists.
In Warsaw, ministers from Central and Eastern Europe warily eyed Russia’s military activities. In Washington, where NATO was born, China was foremost on the list of concerns.
Energy-related CO2 emissions rose 1.7% to 33.1 billion tons from the previous year, the highest rate of growth since 2013.
The global scandal has threatened generations of children, the Catholic Church's credibility and the pope's leadership.
Data worth an estimated US$10 trillion — equal to twice Japan's GDP — moves through underwater cables every day.
Japan will leave the International Whaling Commission, which will drop to 88 members, and resume whaling in April.
A routine examination by the U.N. Human Rights Council looked at Chinese crackdowns on Uyghurs and Tibetans.
A U.N. panel identified six Myanmar military leaders it said should be prosecuted for genocide against Rohingya Muslims.
The World Trade Organization is under mounting pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to justify its global rules, dispute forum and even its existence.
Newly installed U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet took on Myanmar's government, defending the right to press freedom and calling for the release of two journalists.
A panel of U.N. human rights investigators identified six Myanmar military leaders that it said should be prosecuted at The Hague for genocide against Rohingya Muslims.
China's government rejected the concerns of U.N. human rights experts that at least 1 million ethnic Uyghurs are being detained and indoctrinated in the remote Xinjiang Province.
A U.N. panel of human rights experts returned from Bangladesh after gathering evidence of a military-planned campaign of genocide against Myanmar's Rohingya people.
The U.N.'s top humanitarian official paid a rare visit to North Korea, meeting aid providers and some who need help.