
Human-induced climate change worsened Horn of Africa drought
Low rainfall and high evaporation rates 'would not have led to drought at all in a 1.2° C. cooler world,' scientists concluded.
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Low rainfall and high evaporation rates 'would not have led to drought at all in a 1.2° C. cooler world,' scientists concluded.
Sudan's unraveling forced humanitarian aid organizations, including those with staff killed by fighting, to suspend operations, despite millions of civilians in great need.
Twice in a week U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has criticized two powerful members of the world body: Russia for invading Ukraine and the U.S. for spying on his phone calls.
Hundreds of accounts of world leaders and their institutions, plus 40 organizations and their leaders, were to be demoted.
The NATO chief emphasized the need to negotiate new arms control arrangements, despite broad geopolitical worries.
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.
Diplomats from other nations objected to the Russian-led U.N. Security Council session as an exercise in disinformation.
Russia's status as president of the U.N. Security Council is bound up in a frozen-in-time power structure dating to the end of World War II.
The number of nuclear warheads available to nations for deployment reached 9,576 at the start of 2023, up from 9,440 a year earlier.
Mozambique hosted a discussion on how to strengthen efforts between the U.N. and regional organizations at curbing terrorism and violent extremism.
The idea is to preserve and teach an ugly chapter of history that might help ward off humanity’s worst impulses.
The Financial Stability Board designated Switzerland's two biggest banks as so critical to the world that they must not be allowed to fail.
From the killing fields of Ukraine to the earthquakes of Turkey and Syria, children struggle in an often indifferent world.
WFP's leader represents a seemingly bygone era of bipartisanship as both a close political ally of Joe Biden and widow of John McCain.
The U.N. emergency relief coordinator's office set a $4.3 billion target to help people suffering in the war-torn nation.
The global demands for peace grow as humanitarian aid workers emphasize the war's devastating effect on children.