
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.
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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 special gathering at U.N. headquarters in New York highlighted the many challenges to press freedoms globally.
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."
A U.N. panel identified six Myanmar military leaders it said should be prosecuted for genocide against Rohingya Muslims.
Diplomats, experts and international organizations are negotiating a new treaty aimed at protecting the rich biodiversity of open oceans against commercial pressures.
U.S. President Donald Trump's belligerent national security adviser John Bolton harshly condemned the International Criminal Court, which is hated by conservatives.
The U.N. Security Council, led by the U.S. this month, held its first meeting devoted to debating the ties between corruption, peace and security, focusing especially on Venezuela.
For only a second time in its 144-year history, the Swiss-based Universal Postal Union held an "Extraordinary Congress," this time under U.S. pressure to change international postal rates.
Russians and Americans have a complicated history of election meddling abroad but they are not equivalent, international organizations and democracy proponents say.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he'd withdraw the United States from the World Trade Organization, an independent colossus that underpins trade rules, it it doesn't 'shape up.'
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.
More than a half-century after the world agreed to keep the peace in outer space, U.S. President Donald Trump's militarization plans could violate international space law.
With the U.S. reversal, Iran's planned economic opening to the West depends on its European, Russian and Chinese partners.
Three times a year, a little-known panel of human rights experts gathers in Geneva and New York with a monumental task: upholding people's civil and political rights.