The United Nations' International Seabed Authority (ISA) met on July 15 to consider new rules allowing firms to extract minerals from the ocean floor, despite…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was set to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin on July 9, a day after the Indian leader arrived in Moscow…
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 7 said he might invite his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad to Turkey "at any moment", in a sign of…
Pope Francis decried the state of democracy and warned against "populists" during a short visit to Trieste in Italy's northeast on July 7 ahead of…
The leaders of China and Russia on July 4 urged their allies and partners to resist malign external influence, advancing their shared anti-Western agenda at…
The UN rights chief voiced alarm July 3 at a hardening of rhetoric, including hate speech and dehumanising language against migrants and other minorities, linked…
The leaders of Russia and China were in Kazakhstan on July 3 for a regional summit, seeking to harden anti-Western alliances and press their influence…
Turkish authorities said July 2 they had detained over 470 people after anti-Syrian riots in several cities sparked by accusations that a Syrian man had…
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Kazakhstan on July 2 for a state visit, during which he will attend a meeting of Shanghai alliance nations…
Turkish police were holding 67 people July 1 after a mob went on the rampage in a central Anatolian city after a Syrian man was…
Mark Rutte, chosen to be NATO's next secretary-general, is a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and a staunch ally of Ukraine who honed…
The International Criminal Court on June 25 said it had issued arrest warrants for Russia's top army chief and ex-defense minister over strikes on Ukrainian…
The frequency and intensity of extreme wildfires has more than doubled worldwide over the past two decades as human activity has warmed the planet, said…
The US Department of Justice is considering a deal with Boeing that would avoid criminal prosecution of the aerospace giant but may appoint a federal…
Surging cases of bird flu among mammals, including US cattle, offer a stark warning that the world is not ready to fend off future pandemics,…
Nuclear-armed countries hiked spending on atomic weapons arsenals by a third in the past five years as they modernized their stockpiles amid growing geopolitical tensions,…
A Group of Seven summit is opening on June 13 with agreement on a US proposal to back a $50 billion loan to Ukraine using…
The international trading system is on the brink of fragmenting amid rising geopolitical tensions, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on June 12, as he cautioned…
Violence against children in armed conflicts reached "extreme levels" in 2023, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, according to a forthcoming UN report obtained by AFP…
More armed conflicts took place in 2023 than in any other year since the end of World War II, a new study has found. The…
A man infected with H5N2 bird flu, the first confirmed human infection with the strain, died from multiple factors, the WHO said on June 7,…
Humanity now faces an 80% chance that Earth's temperatures will at least temporarily exceed the key 1.5-degree Celsius mark during the next five years, the…
A person died of bird flu in Mexico in the first confirmed case of a human infected with the H5N2 variant, the World Health Organization…
Global warming has accelerated at an "unprecedented" pace as the window to limit rising temperatures within internationally-set targets closes, over 50 leading scientists warned in…
World Health Organization members on June 1 extended negotiations on a landmark global agreement on handling future pandemics for up to a year, as the…
