Five Australian women who were strip-searched and invasively examined at Doha airport have failed in their bid to sue Qatar Airways.
They and other women were ordered off a flight and checked for whether they had given birth after a baby was found (...)
Eclipse watchers are keeping a close eye on the weather ahead of a solar eclipse that will plunge a wide strip of North America into daytime darkness on Monday.
Forecasters are predicting cloudy conditions in northern Mexico, Texas and parts of the (...)
في عالم يزداد ترابطًا وتعقيدًا يومًا بعد يوم، تبرز الأيام الدولية كاستراتيجية فعالة في تعزيز الوعي وتحفيز العمل والتعبئة حول موضوعات حيوية تخص المجتمع المحلي أو العالمي بأكمله. هذه الأيام تشكل فرصاً لتسليط الضوء على القضايا العالمية، مثل: تعزيز (...)
Every two years, all 193 UN Member States have an opportunity to collectively address critical environmental issues facing the planet.
This moment is the United Nations Environment Assembly, or UNEA, the sixth edition of which will be held from Feb. (...)
The global problem of illegal sports betting, the fraudulent manipulation of competitions, and the involvement of organized crime in the sporting world has been tackled at a UN conference in Atlanta, United States.
The discussions at the (...)
The past decade has been confirmed the warmest ever recorded, continuing an alarming 30-year trend that the UN weather chief said on Tuesday is "unequivocally driven by greenhouse gas emissions from human activities."
Marked by record breaking land (...)
A row between Canada and India over the murder of a Sikh separatist has stoked talk of political friction among some Sikhs and Hindus in the diaspora, though others say it's overblown.
After Trudeau's public accusation on Monday that India may have (...)
Sir Keir Starmer has said he will seek a "much better" Brexit deal with the EU if Labour wins the next general election.
The opposition leader told the Financial Times that the current deal, which is due for review in 2025, is "too thin".
Sir Keir (...)
Air Canada has apologized after kicking two passengers off a flight for refusing to sit in vomit-smeared seats.
Susan Benson, who was on the Las Vegas-Montreal service, said the pilot warned the passengers they would be put on a no-fly list if they (...)
A Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to Barcelona on Friday night was forced to turn around after a passenger had diarrhea.
The Airbus A350 had set out on time on the evening of September 1 with 336 passengers on board, but was forced to turn (...)
A new global environmental fund marks a major step towards securing the wellbeing of biodiversity in developing countries and will help to ensure sustainable utilization of their natural resources, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said (...)
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau are separating, Trudeau announced on his Instagram account Wednesday.
Trudeau said after "many meaningful and difficult conversations" with Sophie, "we have made the (...)
Air quality in the north and eastern US is rapidly declining as hundreds of Canadian wildfires burn out of control.
Twenty US states were under air alerts on Monday, according to AirNow, a government website that tracks harmful airborne pollutants. (...)
Canadian police have identified a woman known as the "Nation River Lady," nearly five decades after she went missing and was found dead floating in a river in Ontario, police said.
Jewell "Lalla" Langford, whose maiden name was Parchman, had (...)
High-risk air quality warnings have been issued for millions of people across North America due to ongoing wildfires in Canada.
Wildfire smoke has blanketed major cities in Ontario and Quebec, including Toronto and its surrounding areas.
The smoke (...)
The theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity, observed on Monday, centers on moving from talk to action: build back biodiversity.
"On the International Day for Biological Diversity, we reflect on our relationship with humanity's (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's strategic location at the confluence of three continents, Asia, Africa, and Europe, confers great influence to it and makes it a global logistics hub. This strategic location contributed to the Kingdom's becoming a (...)
Climate change campaigners gathered in New York's Times Square on Earth Day to urge action on global warming and cuts in plastics use while volunteers worldwide planted trees and cleared trash to mark the 54th annual celebration of the environment, (...)
US prosecutors have arrested two men in New York for allegedly operating a Chinese "secret police station" in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood.
Liu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, both New York City residents, face charges of conspiring to act (...)
Two families from Romania and India were found dead in the St Lawrence River by Canadian police near the US-Canada border on Thursday, with one infant still missing.
Six bodies were recovered by police, who said the families were likely trying to (...)
By Peter Gilchrist, Senior Biodiversity Consultant at Aramco
From the Asir mountains in the southwest to the Al Ahsa oasis in the east, Saudi Arabia's diverse landscape is home to a surprising array of birds. In fact, despite its arid climate and (...)
Canada saw record population growth in 2022, with immigration accounting for the vast majority of the 1.05 million new residents.
This is the first time in the country's history that its population has grown by more than one million people in a (...)
Secretary-General António Guterres has congratulated UN member countries for finalizing a text to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, calling it a "breakthrough" after (...)
A friendly face appears on the screen and so begins what could be yet another Zoom call — except I'm sitting inside a white booth that looks like a doctor's office designed to fit on an airplane, and I'm a little nervous.
Attached to the walls are a (...)
The ozone layer is on track to recover within four decades, according to a new UN assessment.
Human emissions of certain chemicals cause a hole to open up in the ozone layer each year over the Antarctic. This affects the ability of the ozone to (...)