BANGKOK — With coronavirus deaths rising in Myanmar, allegations are growing from residents and human rights activists that the military government, which seized control in February, is using the pandemic ...
GENEVA — The World Health Organization says the number of coronavirus deaths globally jumped by 21 percent in the last week. Most of the 69,000 deaths were reported in the ...
First lady Jill Biden’s chief of staff will be nominated to be the U.S. ambassador to Spain, the White House announced Tuesday, though the administration hasn’t yet said who will ...
On paper, it sounded like a jurist’s dream job. In mid-2018, Daniel Kipfer Fasciati, a Swiss federal criminal judge, was appointed after a yearlong search as the United Nations’ chief ...
ROME — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday warned that climate change and conflict are both a consequence and a driver of poverty, income inequality and food prices. Guterres also ...
KABUL, Afghanistan — More women and children were killed and wounded in Afghanistan in the first half of 2021 than in the first six months of any year since the ...
When investors in 2019 announced plans to build a massive hydroelectric dam on the Mekong River just upstream from Luang Prabang, the ancient royal capital of the former Kingdom of ...
NAIROBI, Kenya — Thousands of Eritrean refugees are increasingly caught in the middle of the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where witnesses and U.N. officials say forces have attacked their ...
For a second time, Myanmar’s military junta tried to fire its U.N. Ambassador, Kyaw Moe Tun, who condemned the military’s February takeover, for “abuses” of duty, the Associated Press reported. ...
TOKYO — The Tokyo Olympics should not be judged by the tally of COVID-19 cases that arise because eliminating risk is impossible, the head of the World Health Organization told ...
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