What the 27 mostly unpublished missives tell us about the future of U.S.-North Korean diplomacy.
But others question the “market-based” approach of Biden’s chief climate envoy.
Britain’s decision to compensate slaveholders was unjust, unpalatable—and effective.
Expressing alarm over “rampant police brutality against peaceful protesters worldwide”, more than 40 UN-appointed human rights experts on Friday called for an end to the violence, urging Governments to promote dialogue, tolerance and diversity.
This week in FP’s international news quiz: climate change red flags, a looming Taliban takeover, and one risky helicopter landing.
Why Moscow’s moves could determine the future of navigation
Put aside all your idealistic fantasies about the world’s biggest crisis, and here’s what’s left.
Malaysian mothers can’t automatically pass on their nationality to foreign-born children. The pandemic has worsened the law’s ill effects.
Rival armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are carrying out horrific sexual attacks against women and girls, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) warned on Friday.
Nearly 30,000 children in sub-Saharan Africa are believed to have died from cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Afghanistan is on course to witness its highest ever number of documented civilian casualties in a single year since records began, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday.
Confronting the violence of U.S. policing requires an international perspective.
En plongeant le Liban dans un marasme généralisé, l'invasion israélienne de juin 1982 a dévoilé la friabilité de son économie. Pourtant, que de fois n'avait-on pas entendu « experts » libanais et « observateurs » étrangers chanter ce « miracle », quotidiennement renouvelé jusque dans la guerre ? Mais (...)
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How “the worst consular system in the world” was turned around—and why it needs to happen again.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged all countries “to put differences aside” in order to speed up efforts to understand where and how the COVID-19 virus started – including the unproven suggestion that it was manufactured in a laboratory.
A U.N. official calls efforts in the region “a model of solidarity.”
With Taliban fighters continuing to gain ground in Afghanistan, the UN Secretary-General is following events “with deep concern” said the UN Spokesperson on Thursday, including the battle for Herat and Kandahar, the country’s second and third largest cities.
Political strides are breathing new hope into the country’s fragile State-building process, driven by an electoral agreement signed by Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble, and the heads of Somalia’s federal member states, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Thursday.
With 40 per cent of the global population under 25, the international community has a special responsibility to ensure young people can share their perspectives and concerns about existential threats to current and future generations, UN disarmament chief Izumi Nakamitsu said on Thursday.
Young people are on the “frontlines of the struggle to build a better future”, the UN chief said on Thursday, International Youth Day.
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