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As Putin's war in Ukraine nears the one-year mark with no end in sight, the U.N. again calls on the international community to step up with billions more in aid for civilians and refugees.
The border crossing allows the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations to provide food, medicine and other basic items to the 4.1 million mainly displaced inhabitants of Syria's northwest Idlib province.
Most of the world's 8 billion inhabitants prefer to stay within their nation of birth, but almost 1-in-20 have left that behind.
Journalists, lawyers, activists, fact checkers, regulators and others have been using a new tool to fight disinformation.
Attacks targeting medical facilities, personnel and transport are prohibited under international humanitarian law.
The extension of a wartime agreement with Russia will continue to allow Ukraine's grain shipments to be exported.
Drought, floods, disease outbreaks and a global food crisis add pressure for real action at the U.N. climate summit in Egypt.
Concerns are rising about the risk of a "twindemic" of COVID-19 and influenza as their seasons collide this winter.
With leadership under fire and a mix of crises, finance ministers and central bankers held World Bank meetings.
Indigenous communities have long coped with climate uncertainties. Researchers suggest tapping that knowledge.
ITU's next secretary-general will take over a key agency that regulates and sets standards for global telecommunications.
With 50 million 'a step away from starvation,' humanitarian groups calculate a person dies of hunger every four seconds.
The U.N. health chief blamed racism in world leaders' neglect for the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
Several grain ships left Ukrainian ports under a U.N.-brokered deal that could help ease the global food crisis.
Russia struck Ukraine's port of Odesa, violating the deal brokered by Turkey and the United Nations that Moscow and Kyiv signed less than a day earlier.
Obstructed by Russia's demands, the U.N. Security Council agreed to a six-month entension for cross-border humanitarian aid deliveries to Syria.
