
G-7 urges 'humanitarian pauses' in Gaza to let in desperately needed aid
Medical facilities are running out of supplies and fuel, which Israel hasn't allowed into Gaza for a month now.
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Medical facilities are running out of supplies and fuel, which Israel hasn't allowed into Gaza for a month now.
A first-of-its-kind provision cites an 'urgent need' for nations to address concerns about autonomous weapons systems.
Israel pounded Gaza with increasingly intensifying airstrikes. The U.N. chief emphasized the rules of war must be obeyed.
The U.S. blocked a Security Council resolution as Russia pushed to omit mention of Hamas or Israel's self-defense.
Each of the Geneva-based global initiatives developed by the GESDA Foundation won pledges of millions of Swiss francs.
UNICEF forecasts nearly 96 million children displaced by river flooding, 10.3 million by cyclonic winds, and 7.2 million by storm surges over three decades.
New measurements show a dramatic decline in the health of glaciers and sea ice, perpetuating the cycle of warming.
The world's five biggest science and technology clusters are now in East Asia; Japan's is the largest and China has the most.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Joe Biden each took the stage at the U.N. General Assembly to emphasize there are global stakes in the outcome of the war.
Despite the absences, the politics of catastrophe and climate inaction toward Earth's impaired health await the assembly's annual gathering of world leaders next week in New York.
Funding for humanitarian aid has been getting hard to find amid global economic pressures, but the needs are soaring.
In the recording, UAE officials anticipate a need to "minimize" attacks on the Gulf nation's human rights record when it hosts COP28 in Dubai later this year.
The Global Environment Facility set up the new multilateral fund with key initial investments from Canada and the U.K.
The U.S., Albania, Japan, and South Korea led a U.N. Security Council session that shone a spotlight on starvation and repression under Kim Jong Un's regime.
'Extremely high water stress' afflicts 83% of the population in the Middle East and North Africa and 74% in South Asia.
Scottish energy expert Jim Skea said it's important not to despair over the 'existential threat' from rising temperatures.