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Born from the ashes of the Second World War, the dream of a more peaceful and fairer world drew nations together in 1945 under a new vision for humanity: the United Nations.

All-time high greenhouse gas concentrations in Earth's atmosphere continue to drive heat records on land and sea, with long-lasting consequences for humanity, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Monday.

Domestic violence was not something people spoke about openly in Kyrgyzstan in the 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union, but after a long road of dedicated efforts, there are now laws addressing family abuse, crisis centres and hotlines . ...

More than 1,000 people have been killed and 2,584 injured in Lebanon since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran, UN officials said Saturday.

She woke up to messages flooding her phone. Doctored images of her, sexualised and viral, had spread while she slept.

The World Health Organization (WHO) verified on Saturday a hospital attack in war-torn Sudan that killed 64 people.

BARCELONA, Spain, March 20 (IPS) - "Europe can no longer be a custodian for the old-world order, for a world that has gone and will not return () we need a more realistic and interest-driven foreign policy." These were some of the words pronounced .. ...

UNITED NATIONS, March 20 (IPS) - The past two weeks have marked a significantly violent escalation in the Sudanese Civil War, with drone strikes and artillery shelling between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) causing ...

WASHINGTON DC, March 20 (IPS) - In many high-income countries, even a small number of tuberculosis (TB) diagnoses can generate headlines and prompt a rapid public health response. Recent situations in U.S. cities such as Seattle and San Francisco ...

KARACHI, Pakistan, March 20 (IPS) - Energy expert Vaqar Zakaria believes solar power makes "excellent economic sense" - and he lives by it. For over five years, his rooftop panels have slashed his bills, sometimes to zero, even allowing him to sell . ...