
Nations reject Russia's attempt to rejoin U.N. Human Rights Council
The vote undermined Moscow's claim it still has support from a silent majority of the United Nations' 193 member nations.
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The vote undermined Moscow's claim it still has support from a silent majority of the United Nations' 193 member nations.
The talks centered on climate, financial services and more cooperation among governments and private partners.
The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa said the health leader was "targeted by an Ethiopian government investigation that appears to have been politically motivated."
Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber insists the world's seventh largest oil producer sees the 1.5° climate goal as its "North Star."
In 2015, nations committed to hold global warming to no more than 2° Celsius above pre-industrial levels, or preferably 1.5°.
The world's five biggest science and technology clusters are now in East Asia; Japan's is the largest and China has the most.
Despite the absences, the politics of catastrophe and climate inaction toward Earth's impaired health await the assembly's annual gathering of world leaders next week in New York.
Oil producers took issue with a prediction by the energy agency's chief that demand for fossil fuels will peak by 2030.
The 1,157 protected sites account for less than 1% of Earth's surface but play vital roles as biodiversity hotspots.
WMO said the summer of extremes continues: July was the hottest month ever recorded and the high-impact weather continues through August.
The U.S., Albania, Japan, and South Korea led a U.N. Security Council session that shone a spotlight on starvation and repression under Kim Jong Un's regime.
African Union and West African regional bloc leaders supported deployment of a standby military force and demanded that Niger's junta release the ousted president.
ECOWAS' 15 nations set an Aug. 6 deadline for Niger's military to restore to power the democratically elected president.
As climate litigation increases, the body of legal precedent grows, forming an increasingly well-defined field of law.
Guterres' bid to revitalize multilateralism is at the heart of his “New Agenda for Peace” policy paper for the United Nations.
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