WTO tackles food, vaccines, fishing subsidies
Hunger, vaccine patents and fishing subsidies top the agenda as the global trade body holds its first ministerial conference in four and a half years.
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Hunger, vaccine patents and fishing subsidies top the agenda as the global trade body holds its first ministerial conference in four and a half years.
After two years of discounting a controversial pandemic theory, WHO released a report urging "further investigations into this and all other possible pathways."
Five nations won seats on the U.N. Security Council for the next two years, putting them in a position to influence global policies on peace and security.
Tens of millions of people in 20 hunger "hotspots" will need emergency aid as they face a sharply increased risk of starvation, two U.N. agencies predicted.
Assassination, assault, unlawful deportations, spyware and family intimidation are some methods authoritarian regimes use against activists and dissidents.
North Korea took over the presidency of the U.N. Conference on Disarmament, drawing stern criticism from a quarter of the world body's 193 members.
A group of nations is looking at how they can use regulations for hazardous chemicals and wastes to tackle pollution, global warming and species losses.
Proponents of a U.N. global high seas treaty for protecting biodiversity are set to resume talks in August with the goal of approving it as soon as possible.
The U.N.'s top human rights official acknowledged she could not adequately judge the situation for Muslim Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang Province.
The Group of Seven rich democracies pledged to largely stop relying on coal and other fossil fuels to generate electricity by 2035.
The World Health Assembly voted to condemn and call for an immediate end to Russia's military attacks on Ukraine's hospitals, clinics and ambulances.
Now here’s a climate change twist: the U.S. weather agency — forecasting lots of Atlantic hurricanes — finds reducing air pollution causes more hurricanes.
The World Health Organization's governing body opened its weeklong annual meeting against a backdrop of financial tumoil and war in Europe.
G-7 finance ministers said they agreed to take concrete steps to deepen economic cooperation and respond together against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
More than two years into the pandemic, scientists say its global impacts will not be finished with us anytime soon, particularly in developing nations.
NATO welcomed decisions by Finland and Sweden to seek membership in the military alliance as foreign ministers met to discuss fast-tracking an expansion.