
Experts say Myanmar's foreign arms trade fuels human rights abuses
A U.N. fact-finding mission urged the international community to sever ties with Myanmar’s military.
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A U.N. fact-finding mission urged the international community to sever ties with Myanmar’s military.
The military delivered more than 88,000 tons of packages and letters last year and must now plan for a possible disruption.
The condemnation came from Australia, Canada, Iceland, Japan and New Zealand, along with 17 European nations.
Finance leaders from the world's 20 biggest economies projected moderate global growth and recovery later this year and into 2020, but warned of risks from a prolonged trade war.
At a carefully staged visit, the British monarch touting the multilateral institutions that Britain and the U.S. helped to create after World War II — to prevent a third one.
The Trump administration's withdrawal of U.S. funding for Palestinian refugees could create a huge humanitarian crisis.
The movement against too much artificial light at night celebrates International Dark Sky Week in April.
Flooding, the worst of the impacts globally, continued to affect the largest number of people, more than 35 million.
The European Union and eight other nations condemned Saudi Arabia, demanding that it cooperate with a U.N.-led investigation into Jamal Khashoggi's brazen murder.
The biggest beneficiaries are likely to be the E.U., Mexico, Japan, Canada, South Korea, India, Australia and Brazil.
WTO's stalled negotiations re-emerged on the last day of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos.
The German chancellor noted there's been a "certain amount of disquiet in the international system," a thinly veiled criticism of the U.S. under the Trump administration.
In a ceremonial handover, the Palestinian president assumed the chairmanship of the Group of 77 major bloc of U.N. votes.
The Trump administration's broadsides against international cooperation embolden nations with poor human rights records and encourage attacks on journalists, experts said.
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.