About US$3 billion from Venezuela's frozen assets held in U.S. and European banks is expected to go to a U.N.-administered fund. The agreement restarts negotiations and clears the way for Chevron to resume pumping Venezuelan oil.
WASHINGTON (AN) — A new U.N.-administered fund to direct US$3 billion in humanitarian aid to Venezuelans will be set up under an agreement between representatives of President Nicolas Maduro's government and the opposition.
The signing of the agreement on Saturday in Mexico City between the socialist government and opposition, including U.S.-backed Juan Guaidó, restarts negotiations and clears the way for Chevron to resume pumping oil from its Venezuelan joint ventures.
Dow Jones’ lawyers want the working group to use its mandate from the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva to investigate the reporter's highly politicized case.
Its new analysis shows each 1% cut in aid to its US$5.2 billion annual budget could push 400,000 people toward starvation.
Funding for humanitarian aid has been getting hard to find amid global economic pressures, but the needs are soaring.
At the end of a weeklong visit, the U.N. investigator's findings of an orchestrated state policy contradict Moscow’s denials.
Some in the developing world fear that the war in Ukraine is diverting attention away from the dangers of climate change.
The U.N. health agency praised world leaders for a 'historic' commitment to working together against future pandemics.
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.
