Every 24 seconds someone is killed in traffic, making safety on the world's roads a global development challenge for all societies, especially for the most vulnerable, a senior UN official has said, ahead of the first ever High-level General (...)
A landmark trial of a specialist domestic violence police station has been recommended by a coroner after two murders that shocked Australia.
Hannah Clarke, and her children, and Doreen Langham were burned to death by their ex-partners in (...)
The Cabinet, chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman on Tuesday afternoon at Al-Salam Palace, was briefed on the outcomes of the visits of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to Egypt, Jordan and Türkiye, and discussions with the (...)
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud chaired the Cabinet's session held on Tuesday afternoon at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah.
At the outset of the session, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques spoke about Allah's (...)
The Saudi-Italian Investment Forum culminated today in the signing of two Memoranda of Understanding, including establishing the Saudi-Italian Business Council, formalizing the business relationship between Saudi Arabia and one of its most important (...)
The leaders of the Brics group of nations are meeting this year amid major shifts in the geopolitical order.
The group, which owes its name to the initials of its five member states — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — is holding its (...)
Brazilian police say a suspect has confessed to shooting British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.
Detective Eduardo Fontes said the man, Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, took investigators to a site where human remains were (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia continues its upward ascent in the global competitiveness rankings in the just-released World Competitiveness Yearbook 2022, published by Switzerland-based International Institute for Management Development (IMD). Saudi (...)
Saudi Arabia continues its upward ascent in the global competitiveness rankings in the just-released World Competitiveness Yearbook 2022, published by Switzerland-based International Institute for Management Development (IMD). Saudi Arabia is ranked (...)
War in Ukraine continues to cause mayhem and "destroy the lives of many", and it is everyone's responsibility to limit the global food, fuel and financial crisis" that it has sustained, the UN's top rights official told the Human Rights Council on (...)
Ever greater numbers of vulnerable people are risking their lives on dangerous migration routes in Latin America, forced to move by the global food security crisis that's been made worse by spiraling inflation linked to the war in Ukraine, the UN (...)
The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international air travelers to the US take a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding their flights, easing one of the last remaining government mandates meant to contain the spread of the (...)
Authorities in Brazil must step up efforts to find a British journalist and an indigenous rights activist who disappeared nearly a week ago in a dangerous remote area of the Amazon, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday.
Dom Phillips, a (...)
Ecuador will play at the 2022 World Cup after FIFA dismissed Chile's claims that they had fielded an ineligible player in the qualifiers, world soccer's governing body said on Friday.
The Chilean Football Federation last month said it had proof that (...)
Countries are expected to spend a staggering $1.8 trillion importing food they need this year; this would be a new world record but worryingly, it's going to buy them less food, not more.
That's according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (...)
A British journalist and a Brazilian indigenous expert have gone missing in a remote area of the Amazon rainforest.
Dom Phillips, a regular contributor to the Guardian newspaper in Brazil, was last seen in the Javari region, Amazonas state at the (...)
The Dominican Republic's minister of environment and natural resources has been shot and killed in his office by a close personal friend, officials say.
Orlando Jorge Mera, 55, was holding a meeting at the time of the attack. At least six shots were (...)
The Federation of Saudi Chambers (FSC) has announced forming the Saudi side of the Saudi-Brazilian Business Council in its constitutive session and completing naming members of its executive committee under the presidency of Mishal bin Hithlin and (...)
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has sent a cable of condolence and sympathy to President Jair Bolsonaro of the Federal Republic of Brazil over the floods and landslides that occurred in Pernambuco State, (...)
His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and Deputy Prime Minister, has sent a cable of condolence and sympathy to President Jair Bolsonaro of the Federal Republic of Brazil over the floods and landslides (...)
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has sent a cable of condolence and sympathy to Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro over the floods and landslides that occurred in Pernambuco State, northeast of Brazil.
In his cable, Custodian of the Two (...)
The tobacco industry damages both the environment and human health, and needs to be more accountable for the destruction it causes, declared the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday.
The UN agency revealed that the tobacco industry costs the (...)
The death of a black man who was forced into a police car boot where a gas grenade was set off has sparked outrage in Brazil.
Police stopped Genivaldo de Jesus Santos, 38, in the street in the north-eastern city of Umbaúba, Sergipe state, on (...)
A portable solar generator in a black case, and an eggplant grown in organic soil, were among the diverse items that a group of young climate leaders in Jakarta shared with the UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed this weekend, embodying their (...)
NEWYORK — Twenty-nine Saudi hospitals have been listed among the annual list of the best hospitals in the world that is issued by the American magazine (Newsweek) for the best hospitals in the world for the year 2022.
It is noteworthy that Saudi (...)
