US president Donald Trump's recent actions seem designed to reassert American power and demonstrate that it is still the dominant global power and is capable of bullying weaker nations into following ...

The scenario is common. An elderly person seems to be in good health until one day they suffer a fall and from then on their ...

The lives and health of millions are threatened by the cutoff of programs to feed the hungry and treat and cure diseases.

In this age of mass travel, increasing urbanisation, industrial livestock farming, and human encroachment on wildlife ...

Australian researchers dependent on US funding are facing an uncertain future as the Trump administration attempts to slash ...

The Government of Sri Lanka and the United Nations in Sri Lanka havelaunched the ‘Transforming Local Administrative Data CollectionSystems for SDG ...

Programmes to tackle HIV, polio, mpox and bird flu have been affected by the freeze on tens of billions of dollars of ...

The second world war marked a turning point in the history of childhood. To train young people to build peace, authorities ...

The United States' pause on foreign aid contributions has a serious impact on global health, WHO Director-General Tedros ...

There’s a certain animosity in the US toward the UN and multilateralism,’ says Swiss American political analyst Daniel Warner ...

The World Health Organization on Tuesday wrapped up its executive board meeting, held against the backdrop of the United ...

The U.N. food agency says one of its staffers detained last month by Houthi rebels in Yemen has died in prison.