![Demonstrators in Geneva protest Russia's invasion of Ukraine](/content/images/size/w1304/2023/10/geneva-demonstration-human-rights.jpg)
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.
Already have an account? Log in
The vote undermined Moscow's claim it still has support from a silent majority of the United Nations' 193 member nations.
But the world's five biggest science and technology clusters are now in East Asia; Japan's is the largest and China has the most.
The U.N. agency's report last month concluded that Japan's plans were consistent with international safety standards.
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.
Mining the deep seas: The best way forward to a green energy transition, or a looming environmental disaster?
As the only G-7 member to have joined Beijing's sprawling global pact, Italy had indicated it would leave. But now Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says the decision is still up in the air.
Delegates in Geneva mustered a non-binding report that essentially prolongs a decade-old geopolitical impasse.
Humanitarian leaders say the risk of nuclear catastrophe is the highest 'since the worst moments of the Cold War.'
The 46-nation council reaffirmed support for Ukraine and initiated a register to account for damages by former member Russia so human rights victims can be compensated.
A U.N. Security Council resolution calls on Afghanistan's de factor rulers to quickly restore the rights of women and girls to 'full, equal, meaningful and safe' participation in society.
The Group of Seven's nonproliferation directors expressed alarm that Russia, China and North Korea have all been pushing to expand their nuclear-armed capabilities.
The symbolic clock was reset closer to the symbolic hour of apocalpyse largely due to Russia's war in Ukraine, which has raised the risk of a nuclear confrontation with the West.
UNEP's chief describes the summit as an opportunity to 'secure our life-support system, to make peace with nature.'
Reeling from pandemic setbacks, the world's largest disease-fighting fund sought money to work in more than 100 nations.
The IMF was thrust into a dispute over currency manipulation as the U.S. accused Vietnam and Switzerland of currency manipulation.
The first privately run spacecraft certified by NASA to fly people launched into orbit and docked with the International Space Station carrying four astronauts.