Chamber reports drop in maritime piracy
Maritime piracy and armed robbery dropped by 24% in the first nine months of 2019, but Africa's Gulf of Guinea remains a "high risk area."
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World Bank and IMF accent island nations
The World Bank and IMF opened fall meetings to survey a slowing world economy, U.S.-China trade war and urgent climate threats to small island nations.
Global Fund raises $14 billion pledges
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, backed by Emmanuel Macron, Bill Gates and Bono, said it reached its $14 billion pledges target.
IMF report says global carbon tax needed
The International Monetary Fund recommended the world adopt a steep global tax on carbon emissions within a decade to slow global warming.
United Nations faces severe cash shortage
The United Nations could run out of money by the end of this month in the worst budget crisis that the world body has faced in at least a decade.
Aid sought for 10 million stateless people
The U.N. refugee agency's chief Filippo Grandi and goodwill ambassador Cate Blanchett appealed to governments to end statelessness for 10 million people.
Commission shows digital dangers for kids from global connectivity
Internet users extend to half the world, including 1.15 billion children who can benefit only if they can safely navigate it.
Georgieva starts in new post as IMF chief
Bulgarian economist Kristalina Georgieva took over as IMF chief, signaling her five-year term will champion empowering women and fighting climate change.
Swiss clamor for U.N.-led climate action
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.
UNCTAD warns of 2020 global recession
UNCTAD cautioned there is "a clear and present danger" of a global recession in 2020 due to trade tensions, corporate debt and weaker growth worldwide.
Urgent UPU session reaches deal to keep U.S. in U.N. postal agency
UPU Congress' consensus vote to adopt the compromise plan represented "an historical moment," the agency's chief says.
U.N.: Oceans and frozen regions changing
Coastal flooding with huge ice and snow losses are getting more extreme as oceans warm and acidify while frozen parts of the planet melt faster, IPCC said.
UPU delegates reject Trump mail demand
The U.N. postal agency opened its Extraordinary Congress with a vote to reject the Trump administration's demand that it overhaul international delivery rates.
U.N. chief fears U.S.-China 'great fracture'
The U.N. chief opened the U.N. General Assembly with a plea for U.S.-China unity while pushing his top priorities of fighting climate change and more war.
U.N. seeks carbon neutral planet by 2050
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.
Counterterrorism forum goes independent
A global task force to fight online extremism announced it will become an independent watchdog organization led by an executive director and a board.