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Israeli military operations in Lebanon have continued to claim civilian lives and destroy vital infrastructure, the UN human rights office warned on Tuesday, raising alarm over mounting violations since a ceasefire agreement took effect last November ...

A plane carrying some 40 metric tonnes of lifesaving aid arrived in Myanmar from Dubai on Tuesday to support survivors of the devastating earthquake last month.

The calls for reparatory justice can no longer be ignored, speakers at the fourth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on African Descent in New York said on Tuesday.

An Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Gaza on Tuesday has further jeopardized already limited access to lifesaving medical care in the war-torn enclave.

Two years to the day since Sudan's brutal war erupted between rival generals who rejected the peaceful transition to civilian rule after the overthrow of Omar Al-Bashir, UN chief António Guterres insisted that the world "must not forget" the ...

Recent severe flooding caused by torrential rains has displaced nearly 10,000 people in Tanganyika province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday.

LONDON, Apr 15 (IPS) - It is now official that the European continent is experiencing the fastest rate of global warming, according to a new scientific report released by Europe's Copernicus Climate Change Service and the World Meteorological ...

SAN FRANCICO, California / APEX, North Carolina, Apr 15 (IPS) - Is it only a decade since the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate change were agreed? The two deals were inked to a groundswell of hope.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 15 (IPS) - US President Donald Trump has again seized global attention by arbitrarily imposing sweeping tariffs on the rest of the world. He reminds us America is still boss, claiming to 'make America great again' (MAGA) . ...

As Sudan's devastating war enters its third year, UN rights investigators are warning that its "darkest chapters" may still lie ahead, following the massacre of more than 100 people at displacement camps in Darfur over the weekend.