U.N. urges cease-fire as cases near 400,000
The U.N. chief called for a global cease-fire to help vanquish the pandemic, imploring warring parties to disarm and fight the virus as a "common enemy."
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The U.N. chief called for a global cease-fire to help vanquish the pandemic, imploring warring parties to disarm and fight the virus as a "common enemy."
WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic — the global spread of a new disease — marking the first time a coronavirus has gained that distinction.
The U.N. chief warned “a wind of madness is sweeping the globe” from a dangerous surge of instability and unpredictable geopolitical "hair-trigger" tensions.
A new U.N. report cautions the world must begin cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 7.6% a year starting in 2020 to meet global targets.
The U.N. World Tourism Organization said 117 nations recommitted to making tourism more sustainable, inclusive and ethical after a five-day gathering.
Oceans, landfills and public spaces are filling with degraded bits and pieces of bottles, toys and other plastic pollution.
Iran's biggest European trading partners are Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, and Greece.
The condemnation came from Australia, Canada, Iceland, Japan and New Zealand, along with 17 European nations.
The Event Horizon Telescope pulled off one of astrophysicists' longtime dreams by documenting a supermassive black hole.
The Inter-Parliamentary Union said members of Venezuela's parliament were barred from leaving the country.
The movement against too much artificial light at night celebrates International Dark Sky Week in April.
Hundreds of millions of youth are at risk of contracting water-borne diseases because more countries suffer from conflicts.
Not surprisingly, the patterns of American and European leadership have been an affront to non-Western nations.
Protesters urged more attention to global weapons sales in the wake of a journalist's murder in a Saudi consulate at Istanbul.
The picture is complicated by safety and environmental concerns and IAEA's dual roles as watchdog and promoter.
The concept of a demilitarization zone, like the one planned for Idlib, goes back almost a half-millennium to Europe's rules on demolishing forts or prohibiting their reconstruction.