Antigua and Barbuda should "one day become a republic", its prime minister has told the Earl and Countess of Wessex during their Caribbean tour.
Gaston Browne said during a meeting with the royal couple, who are touring the region to mark the (...)
The United Nations on Tuesday remembered the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and its continued impact on the modern world, by honoring the tradition of resistance to slavery and unity against racism, through personal stories of courage.
In (...)
Everyone has the right to live a healthy, full, and productive life with dignity, regardless of their HIV or other medical status, the UN agency leading the fight against HIV/AIDS said on Tuesday, Zero Discrimination Day.
"People most vulnerable to (...)
The first American to be vaccinated against the COVID virus and a first-responder in New York City, Sandra Lindsay, met with Abdulla Shahid, President of the General Assembly.
The meeting came on Wednesday, ahead of a high-level vaccines event that (...)
The Cabinet, chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman in person at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh after a series of virtual session on Tuesday, addressed the outcomes of the visit of South Korea President Moon Jae-in to Saudi (...)
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud chaired the Cabinet's session held at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh today.
At the outset of the session, the Cabinet was briefed on the content of the letter received by the (...)
A $10 million contribution from the United States will assist the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in its work on COVID-19 response and addressing threats to human, animal and environmental health, including future pandemics.
The funding, (...)
Queen Elizabeth will have one less realm after this week, when Barbados severs its final imperial links to Britain by removing the 95-year-old as its head of state and declaring itself a republic.
The former British colony -- which gained (...)
A new coalition will accelerate tourism's transition to net zero, audiences at COP26 heard Thursday. Ministers from major tourism destinations and leaders from international organizations have voiced their support to achieve a sustainable travel and (...)
A new coalition will accelerate tourism's transition to net zero, audiences at COP26 heard today. Ministers from major tourism destinations and leaders from international organizations have voiced their support to achieve a sustainable travel and (...)
At least 200 million boys and girls, live in 31 countries which do not have the resources to deal with remote learning during any future emergency school closures, the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF, said in a study released on Thursday.
More than half, (...)
More than half the population of Latin America and the Caribbean has not been vaccinated against COVID-19, a senior official with the regional arm of UN health agency WHO said on Wednesday.
Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, Assistant Director at the Pan American (...)
Saudi Arabia has stepped up preparations for Beijing 2022 as the Kingdom attempts to qualify athletes for the Olympic Winter Games for the first time.
Saudi Arabia is a vast nation that occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula, whose landscape (...)
The preliminary results of the German election are known but what happens next is likely to be drawn out.
In the closest election race since 2005, the Social Democrats narrowly beat the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union by just (...)
The vast majority of people with high blood pressure, or hypertension, — a serious medical condition that significantly increases the risks of heart, brain, kidney and other diseases — live in low and middle-incomes countries, a World Health (...)
Grace, a category 3 hurricane, made landfall south of Tuxpan on the eastern coast of Mexico early Saturday, as the president urged residents in its path to seek refuge in shelters or on higher ground.
Strong winds will continue to batter the region (...)
Grace plowed through the Yucatan Peninsula on Thursday and weakened to a tropical storm but is expected to regain hurricane strength as it approaches the Gulf coast of Mexico, said the National Hurricane Center.
That second landfall is forecast (...)
During Wednesday's World Health Organization briefing on COVID-19, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for funding to fight the spread of the deadly Delta variant while also asking wealthy countries to suspend plans to provide booster (...)
KINGSTON — The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), Saudi Arabia's charity arm, delivered on Wednesday medical supplies to Jamaica to help the Caribbean island combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
On behalf of KSrelief, the medical (...)
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has sent a cable of congratulation to Governor-General of Jamaica Sir Patrick Allen on the anniversary of his country's Independence Day.
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques (...)
His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, has sent a cable of congratulation to Governor-General of Jamaica Sir Patrick Allen on the anniversary of his country's (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) delivered yesterday medical and preventive supplies to Jamaica to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
On behalf of KSrelief, the medical aid was handed over by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's (...)
The United Kingdom will this week begin delivering 9 million COVID-19 vaccines around the world, including to Indonesia, Jamaica and Kenya, to help tackle the pandemic, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced on Wednesday.
Five million doses are (...)
Hurricane Elsa raced toward Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Saturday, where it threatened to unleash flooding and landslides before taking aim at Cuba and Florida.
The Category 1 storm was located about 395 miles (635 kilometers) east-southeast (...)
The U.S National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Friday that tropical storm Elsa had strengthened a little and was very close to the Lesser Antilles.
Elsa is located about 70 miles (110 km) east-southeast of Barbados, with maximum sustained winds of (...)
