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High stakes for COP27 summit as climate becomes a health crisis too
Drought, floods, disease outbreaks and a global food crisis add pressure for real action at the U.N. climate summit in Egypt.
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Drought, floods, disease outbreaks and a global food crisis add pressure for real action at the U.N. climate summit in Egypt.
The report blames misinformation, conflicts and wars, lockdowns, supply chain disruptions and diverted resources.
The U.N. health agency and other international organizations began airlifting emergency supplies to Afghanistan through neighboring Pakistan and its airline.
Fifty nations ratified a treaty to ban nuclear weapons that will enter into force in 90 days, the U.N. confirmed on the same day it was founded 75 years ago.
Amnesty International announced it must cease its human rights work in India because Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government froze its bank accounts.
U.S.-Russia nuclear talks resumed after more than a year, despite unknown factors like China's non-participation and a U.S. presidential election.
The U.N. more than tripled its humanitarian aid appeal to US$6.7 billion, up from US$2 billion, for vulnerable countries.
Japan strengthened inspections as part of efforts to improve regulation in the wake of the Fukushima Daichi accident.
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.
Pakistan's prime minister took his nation's dispute over Jammu and Kashmir to the U.N. General Assembly, warning of a potential "bloodbath" in the region.
The U.N. human rights chief says the climate crisis is a top threat and U.S. detention of migrant children is alarming.
Prodded by China and Pakistan, the U.N. Security Council held a closed-door discussion on the Indian-controlled region.
The moves are a furious reaction to India revoking the protected status Jammu and Kashmir held for six decades.
At a carefully staged visit, the British monarch touting the multilateral institutions that Britain and the U.S. helped to create after World War II — to prevent a third one.
Despite fears about being weighed down with too much debt, developing nations embraced the infusion of Chinese cash.
The leaders had contradictory accounts of why there was no agreement on dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons.