Argentinian diplomat Grossi named to lead U.N. nuclear watchdog
Argentina’s ambassador to Austria, Rafael Mariano Grossi, will head the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency.
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Argentina’s ambassador to Austria, Rafael Mariano Grossi, will head the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency.
The data 'discrepancies' are being assessed by the World Anti-Doping Agency and independent forensic experts.
Voters in Switzerland's national elections delivered a major boost to left-leaning Greens who back urgent U.N.-led climate action and other ecological causes.
Amid a storm of bipartisan criticism, U.S. President Donald Trump rescinded his plan to host the G-7 summit at his own resort in 2020.
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to host next year's gathering of the Group of Seven rich democracies at his private golf resort in Florida.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, backed by Emmanuel Macron, Bill Gates and Bono, said it reached its US$14 billion pledges target.
The International Monetary Fund recommended the world adopt a steep global tax on carbon emissions within a decade to slow global warming.
Up to 100,000 people turned out for Switzerland's largest-ever climate demonstration to insist on fulfilling the U.N.-brokered goals to cut greenhouse gases.
UPU Congress' consensus vote to adopt the compromise plan represented "an historical moment," the agency's chief says.
The African Development Bank Group will no longer support "19th century technologies" like coal and oil and will help create the world's largest "solar zone."
Some 40% of the U.N.'s 193 member nations committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, and nearly the same amount vowed to do more by 2020.
A global task force to fight online extremism announced it will become an independent watchdog organization led by an executive director and a board.
The U.N. General Assembly called on all nations to work towards enabling everyone to have affordable, quality health services by 2030.
Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution seeking to impose a cease-fire in northwest Syria's Idlib governorate, the last rebel stronghold.
More than 500 institutional investors urged governments to finally take significant action to reduce carbon emissions.
The Paris-based organization pointed to oil companies' reserves that still can meet demand for more than a month.