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U.S. derides U.N. effort to counter racism
The top American diplomat rebuked the U.N. Human Rights Council a day after it commissioned a report on racism and police brutality.
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The top American diplomat rebuked the U.N. Human Rights Council a day after it commissioned a report on racism and police brutality.
U.S. President Donald Trump sent a US$4.8 trillion budget plan to Congress proposing deep cuts to international organizations and global health programs.
A public–private global health partnership said it will invest US$178 million to establish an emergency stockpile of 500,000 Ebola vaccine doses worldwide.
The Paris Peace Forum promoted what French President Emmanuel Macron described as a need for "balanced cooperation" among nations.
The U.N. health agency had rejected making an emergency declaration three times before, but said it now fears the deadly virus disease could spread to neighboring countries.
Delegates to the global decision-making body will tackle ways to strengthen emergency response and restructure the agency.
Disasters and conflicts drove nations atop a list of places adding to the 28 million people newly displaced at home.
After an emergency meeting, WHO’s director said he accepted a panel's recommendation to skip an emergency declaration.
Hundreds of millions of youth are at risk of contracting water-borne diseases because more countries suffer from conflicts.
Qatar joined OPEC in 1961 and has been its 11th biggest producer, putting out 600,000 barrels of crude oil a day.
With demands growing for the U.N. chief to appoint an investigation into Jamal Khashoggi's murder, a review by Arete News found just eight previous instances of such an order.
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."
New ethnic clashes in the south of the country and violence along a border region displaced more than 1 million people.
U.S. President Donald Trump's belligerent national security adviser John Bolton harshly condemned the International Criminal Court, which is hated by conservatives.
With the U.S. reversal, Iran's planned economic opening to the West depends on its European, Russian and Chinese partners.
A third of the world’s fish stocks are overfished, FAO said, and 35% of what's caught never makes it one someone's plate.