Nearly 80 percent of the world’s poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by global warming, bearing a “double and deeply unequal burden,” the United ...

US President Donald Trump was in Israel for a lightning visit ahead of a summit in Egypt on Gaza, after the final 20 surviving Israeli hostages returned home following two years in captivity. Trump, ...

Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage at the UN General Assembly just over a week after an independent UN Commission concluded that Israel has committed genocide — the worst crime under international law.

Former FBI director and prominent Donald Trump critic James Comey was indicted Thursday on two criminal counts as the US president escalated a campaign of retribution against political foes. The ...

Despite major gains in education and reducing poverty in recent decades, entrenched inequalities are eroding trust in institutions and democratic systems around the world, the UN warned Tuesday.

Government gestures to calm deadly protests in Indonesia have done little to address the economic inequality and hardship fueling the unrest, leaving deep resentment to linger and flare up again, ...

More than half of Europe and the Mediterranean basin was affected by drought in the first ten days of August, according to an AFP analysis on Monday of European Drought Observatory (EDO) data. The ...

A US federal judge on Thursday barred the US President Donald Trump‘s administration and Florida state government from bringing any new migrants to the detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” ...

Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa marched Tuesday in a protest against the country’s Constitutional Court judges who recently suspended several security laws. While Noboa portrayed the rally as part of ...

Kenya marked its fight for democracy on Monday, with police blocking main roads in Nairobi ahead of potential protests, after last month’s demonstrations descended into violent clashes. Saba Saba Day ...

A US appeals court on Thursday ruled that President Donald Trump could continue control of National Guard troops in Los Angeles, over the objections of California Governor Gavin Newsom. Trump ordered ...

Over 25 years ago, during my first year in a doctoral program, I recall having a conversation with one of my White male peers. We were part of a cohort of five students: 2 White males, 1 White female, ...