Chris Knayzeh was in a town overlooking Lebanon's capital when he heard the rumbling aftershock of the 2020 Beirut port blast ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is holding The Summit of the Future 2024 in New York on 22-23 September, providing an opportunity for world leaders to assess these issues so collective solutions ...

Now, most observers have little doubt that the end is just a matter of timing and circumstance. Ten years ago, I predicted ...

World leaders will descend on the United Nation's New York HQ from Sunday for the organization's annual signature gathering ...

The Colombo meeting was addressed by SEP (US) presidential candidate Joe Kishore, who spoke via an online link, and followed ...

Western governments ignored widespread fraud in South Korean adoptions and sometimes pressured the country to keep the kids coming, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found. Many Korean ...

But after two world wars, the Holocaust and other genocides ... human rights atrocities, poverty, racism, gender inequality, ...

Poverty is a thing of the past in much of Europe and South-East Asia; in much of Africa it looks more ingrained than it has ...

In 1959, 35.2% of people who were 65 and up were experiencing poverty – the highest rate of any age group. In 2023, only 9.7% of older Americans were in poverty, as indicated by the official rate, and ...

Nearly 800 million people in the world lack access to commercial electricity. It is easy to assume that connecting them to ...

Increased protectionism will hit the world's poorest countries hardest ... citing its transformative role in lowering poverty and income inequality. Between 1995 and 2022, the WTO estimated that the ...

A growing army of Russian expats want to take back Russia. Can they succeed?