Diplomacy & Crisis News

An energy shortage threatens critical semiconductor supply lines as COVID-19 surges.

Government efforts to force the birth rate up are met with stubborn resistance.

Upholding human rights online must be part of global efforts to recover better following the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of UN independent experts said on Friday. 

This week in FP’s international news quiz: Hong Kong protests, new leadership in Israel, and Peru’s big election.

Biden and the Europeans are close to agreement on a virtual revolution in international corporate tax policies.

Independent UN human rights experts on Friday urged Canadian authorities and the Holy See of the Catholic Church to conduct prompt “full-fledged investigations” into a mass grave found in British Columbia containing the remains of over 200 children at a residential school for indigenous students, who had been forcibly taken from their homes.

Heads of Government, religious leaders, activists and artists joined the United Nations on Friday in a rallying cry to heal the planet, launching the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. 

The demise of center-left parties across Europe is a warning to Democrats focused on divisive cultural issues rather than bread-and-butter economics.

Amidst the triple environmental threat of biodiversity loss, climate disruption and escalating pollution, Secretary-General António Guterres launched “an unprecedented effort to heal the Earth”, on the eve of World Environment Day. 

The military regime’s neighbors resist sanctions, fearing it would divide regional powers.

Some two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been distributed globally but only 0.5 per cent have reached low-income countries where frontline health workers and the elderly have yet to receive a shot, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

This crisis may be a turning point for how the IMF treats indebted nations.

Voters will decide between a dictator’s daughter and a socialist in Sunday’s polarized contest.

Bandits in the country’s northwest are terrorizing civilians, destabilizing the region, and empowering jihadists.

Attacks on journalists and a proposed law increasing government media oversight do not bode well for democracy.

There has been no further investigation into the state of the FSO Safer, a stricken tanker anchored just 4.8 nautical miles off the Yemen coast, meaning the risk of a massive oil leak continues to grow with each passing day, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Thursday.  

Until those responsible for any and all chemical weapons use in Syria are held responsible, the global community will continue sending a message of impunity, the senior UN disarmament official warned the Security Council on Thursday.

The head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has called for “clear and unequivocal guarantees” over the safety and security of staff working to restore critical services in Gaza, following last month’s conflict between Israel and militant group Hamas, which controls the occupied enclave.

Financial capital and the courts are quietly creating the conditions to stop global warming—if politics does its part, too.

New memorandum puts anti-corruption efforts at the heart of national security strategy.