As the conflict in Ukraine deepens and the COVID-19 pandemic wears on, the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva is gearing up to hold its annual month-long session, which begins on Monday.
More than 130 foreign dignitaries are expected at the Palais (...)
Massive floods, devastating wildfires, and rising seas – along with the countless lives they take and livelihoods they upend – are realities many nations are already facing. Voices from the front lines of climate change and its impacts were center (...)
Small island nations across the world are bearing the brunt of the climate crisis, and their problems have been accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has severely affected their economies, and their capacity to protect themselves from possible (...)
JEDDAH — The Maritime Rescue Coordination Center here evacuated a sick Turkish sailor in his 30s aboard a tanker on Friday.
The unnamed sailor, crewing for a tanker with a Marshall Islands flag, had to be evacuated as he had fever, Saudi Press (...)
Jeddah Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (JMRCC) received a call that a Turkish sailor in his thirties on board a tanker flying the flag of Marshall Islands (STI AQUA) needs an emergency medical evacuation due to his high temperature, the official (...)
A major climate summit wrapped up in Madrid Sunday with a compromise deal that left little to show, prompting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to lament a "lost opportunity" to act.
Almost a fortnight of COP25 talks just squeezed out (...)
Rescue workers on Monday freed the final crew member trapped inside a South Korean cargo vessel that flipped on its side off the coast of Georgia, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Salvage crews gradually drilled an opening in the ship's massive hull on (...)
Rescue workers on Monday were planning to extract four missing crew members from a South Korean cargo vessel carrying about 4,000 cars to the Middle East that turned on its side off the coast of Georgia, the US Coast Guard said.
Helicopters rescued (...)
From its inception in 1971 up to December 2018, Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), the leading national entity for international development aid, has financed hundreds of development projects in the renewable energy sector around the world worth (...)
The Command of Coalition for Supporting the Legitimacy in Yemen announced that on Wednesday morning, a tanker carrying the flag of "Marshall Islands" was attacked by a naval boat using three Rocket-Propelled Grenades (RPGs) off the Yemeni coast near (...)
The Command of Coalition for Supporting the Legitimacy in Yemen announced that on Wednesday morning, a tanker carrying the flag of "Marshall Islands" was attacked by a naval boat using three Rocket-Propelled Grenades (RPGs) off the Yemeni coast near (...)
WASHINGTON/VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, California — The US military on Tuesday cheered a successful, first-ever missile defense test involving a simulated attack by an intercontinental ballistic missile, in a major milestone for a program meant to (...)
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By Zoe Tabary
THOUSANDS of people around the world work tirelessly to defend human rights — (...)
Waves could reach 1 to 3 metres above the tide
level in the Solomon Islands, after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake in the
Pacific archipelago, the International Tsunami Information Center says, according to dpa.
"Based on all available data, hazardous (...)
The UN's highest court on Wednesday narrowly threw out landmark cases brought by the tiny Marshall Islands against India, Pakistan and Britain for allegedly failing to halt the nuclear arms race.
In majority decisions, the 16-judge bench at the (...)
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) expressed optimism for an agreement on a Carbon Offset and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) when governments meet for the 39th Assembly of the International Civil Aviation (...)
The Conservatives lost power in last October's election. But they still seem to be running aspects of Canada's Middle East policy.
The Tories moved to have the House of Commons "reject the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which (...)
The tiny South Pacific state of the Marshall Islands began legal proceedings on Monday against India at the United Nations' highest court, as part of cases against three of the world's nuclear powers aimed at breathing new life into disarmament (...)
The tiny Marshall Islands will on Monday seek to convince the UN's highest court to take up a lawsuit against India, Pakistan and Britain which they accuse of failing to halt the nuclear arms race.
Lawyers representing the small Pacific island (...)
The U.S. military test fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile in a week late on Thursday to demonstrate the reliability of American nuclear arms at a time of rising strategic tensions with countries like Russia and North Korea, Reuters (...)
A 14-year-old who lost his nose in an accident is thought to be the first person in the United States to have received a 3D-printed nose, restoring his senses of smell and taste, according to doctors at Mount Sinai hospital, according to UPI.
Dallan (...)
Iranian naval vessels conducted rocket tests last week near US warships and commercial traffic passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the American military said Wednesday, causing new tension between the two nations after a landmark nuclear deal.
The (...)
Tens of thousands marched across Australia on Sunday on a third day of worldwide rallies as pressure mounts on global leaders to strike a pact on cutting greenhouse gases at crucial talks in still-shaken Paris.
Some 150 leaders including US (...)
The United States on Tuesday voted for the 24th time against a UN General Assembly resolution calling for the end of the embargo against Cuba despite the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries this year, dpa reported.
The (...)
AlQa'dah 05, 1436, August 20, 2015, SPA -- The U.S. Air Force says an unarmed Minuteman 3 missile was launched from California in a test of the intercontinental ballistic missile system, according to AP.
The missile blasted off at 3:03 a.m. (...)
