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With just hours left before the close of negotiations, UN mediators rushed to broker a truce Wednesday between government representatives and...

Formed in the shadow of Mount Everest, the turquoise depths of Nepal's Imja glacial lake would be a breathtaking miracle of nature to behold...

Another round of talks on the Yemen conflict will likely take place in the coming months, sources said Sunday, as warring parties met for UN-sponsored...

The global #MeToo campaign has taken the battle for women's rights to "where we have never been before", the head of the UN's agency for gender...

The United States has dropped a bid to hold a UN Security Council meeting on North Korea's human rights record after failing to garner enough...

UNAIDS, under fire over a mishandled sexual assault investigation, suffers from "a broken organisational culture," where leaders fail "to accept...

Even as China struggles to curb domestic coal-fired power and the deadly pollution it produces, the world's top carbon emitter is aggressively...

Eduard Romanov points to a spot on a block of flats where a major supporting beam has sagged and begun to crack, destabilising the nine storeys...

With climate change pushing up temperatures, English winemakers are rubbing their hands as their sparkling wines start to give top champagnes...

Peace talks between Yemen's government and rivals aimed at ending four years of devastating war will open on Thursday in Sweden, the UN announced.No...

Global emissions of carbon dioxide mainly from fossil fuel burning will rise 2.7 percent in 2018, scientists said Wednesday, signalling a world...

Global emissions of carbon dioxide mainly from fossil fuel burning will rise 2.7 percent in 2018, scientists said Wednesday, signalling a world...

Campaign groups representing citizens from across the world demanded Tuesday that big energy leaves coal in the ground as COP24 host Poland pushed...

Ratan Kumar once battled India's brutal summers with damp bedsheets and midnight baths. Now he is among millions upon millions of Indians using...

The UN Security Council will meet behind closed doors on Tuesday at the request of France and Britain after they accused Iran of test-firing...

Wounded Yemeni rebels were flown out of Sanaa on a UN charter flight Monday for medical treatment in Oman, an airport source told AFP, a critical...