One Woman Killed By Partner, Relative Every 10 Minutes Worldwide in 2023: United Nations
One woman was killed by a partner or relative every 10 minutes worldwide in 2023, the United Nations warned Monday, stressing ...
‘They came and demolished everything’: Palestinians fear more evictions in the West Bank under Trump
Where the high hills of the occupied West Bank tumble into the Jordan valley, half a dozen heavy Israeli diggers pound the ...
Lebanon condemns attacks on UN peacekeeping mission
Lebanon on Monday condemned attacks on the United Nations peacekeeping mission (UNIFIL) stationed in its south, including ...
In world's largest refugee camps, Rohingya mobilise to fight in Myanmar
One day in July, Rafiq slipped out of the world's largest refugee settlement in southern Bangladesh and crossed the border ...
The UN chief and pope call for nations to end the use of antipersonnel land mines
The U.N. chief, Pope Francis and others are calling for nations to end the production and use of land mines, even as their ...
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Guterres condemns supply of anti-personnel landmines to Ukraine
On November 20, the Pentagon confirmed to TASS that the US administration had authorized the use of anti-personnel landmines in Ukraine. On November 21, the US Defense Ministry suggested the ...
Romania in shock after far-right populist enters presidential election’s runoff with most votes
Romania's political landscape is reeling after a little-known, far-right populist secured the first round in the presidential election, electoral data showed ...
In South Korea, nations meet in final round to address global plastic crisis
Negotiators are gathering in South Korea in what’s billed as a final push to address the global crisis of plastic pollution ...
Contentious COP29 deal shows climate cooperation fraying at edges
COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev's preparation for different outcomes at the divisive summit in Azerbaijan reflected what many ...
An average of 140 women and girls were killed by a partner or relative per day in 2023, the UN says
The deadliest place for women is at home and 140 women and girls on average were killed by an intimate partner or family ...
The World Is a Decade Late and $2 Trillion Short
The climate agreement reached at the United Nations’ COP29 confab is, to put it mildly, insufficient. To put it not so mildly ...
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Nations meet to address global plastic crisis in South Korea
BUSAN, South Korea - Negotiators are gathering in South Korea in what’s billed as a final push to address the global crisis ...