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World Bank's turnover at the top tests the politics of international aid
Not surprisingly, the patterns of American and European leadership have been an affront to non-Western nations.
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Not surprisingly, the patterns of American and European leadership have been an affront to non-Western nations.
Despite co-founding the U.N. agency as a peace-promoting organization, the U.S. has now withdrawn from it two times.
The Trump administration's broadsides against international cooperation embolden nations with poor human rights records and encourage attacks on journalists, experts said.
Huge security threats loom from the crisis in Yemen to Afghanistan's fighting to the U.S.-China trade war.
In the past year at least 80 journalists were killed, 348 were detained in prison and 60 were taken as hostages.
Negotiators overcame a deadlock on a crucial element about how nations must report their greenhouse gas emissions.
The summit is supposed to work out a "rulebook" for nations to follow to fulfill their Paris Agreement climate pledges.
Instagram is the fastest-growing social media network among leaders, organizations and governments and the third most popular for global diplomacy after Twitter and Facebook.
As 200 nations gathered for climate talks, international health experts reported the slow pace of reducing greenhouse gas emissions puts lives and health care systems at risk.
Global greenhouse gas emissions, rather than fall, rose in 2017 by 0.7 gigatons to 53.5 gigatons, after three years of decreases.
Even in a country with a tradition of hosting international organizations, one-third of all voters preferred to put the promise of "Swiss law first" ahead of global cooperation.
The world's largest international police organization, which was expected to elevate a senior Russian security official to the top job, shifted gears after politicians and activists protested.
Interpol's general assembly meeting in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, was expected to select a Russian frontrunner.
Precipitated by unrestrained nationalism, the immense tragedy of a four-year global war laid the groundwork for the post-World War II era of relative concordance among nations.
Arms control experts urged the Trump administration to reverse plans to withdraw the United States from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia.
A routine examination by the U.N. Human Rights Council looked at Chinese crackdowns on Uyghurs and Tibetans.