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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.
The U.N. proposed a system for reaching everyone on Earth with early warnings against extreme and dangerous weather.
Former rebels in Mali committed to more civilian protections for health and medical facilities during armed conflict.
ITU's next secretary-general will take over a key agency that regulates and sets standards for global telecommunications.
Reeling from pandemic setbacks, the world's largest disease-fighting fund sought money to work in more than 100 nations.
Prompted by its own paralysis over Syria and Ukraine, the U.N. moved to prevent abuse of power by Russia and other permanent Security Council members.
The world's biggest and most powerful atom smasher is once again circulating beams of protons after a shutdown of more than three years for upgrades.
The U.N. approved a compromise to keep open Syria's last non-government controlled border crossing for aid.
International donors contributed US$1.7 billion for people starving in Yemen, an amount that leaders of humanitarian organizations called disappointing.
The COVAX Facility's global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines finally launched with the delivery of 600,000 doses to Ghana's capital Accra.
Ten million pages scanned, five million more to go. The project to digitize the former League of Nations' entire archives by 2022 has hit the two-thirds mark.
A two-shot vaccine from BioNTech and Pfizer gained official approval in the E.U., two days after Switzerland approved it through a normal procedure.
Switzerland announced it has become the first government in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine using a standard process of regulatory approval.
The IMF was thrust into a dispute over currency manipulation as the U.S. accused Vietnam and Switzerland of currency manipulation.
Several CEOs of leading drugmakers expressed confidence the pandemic can be brought under control starting sometime in the second half of next year.
Syrian representatives, dogged by mistrust from an almost decade-long civil war, began a fourth round of peace talks on a new system of governance.
