OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría welcomes the initiative of President Francois Hollande and Chancellor Angela Merkel to put forward a (…)
A major health crisis is unfolding in conflict-ravaged Yemen, where hospitals have been destroyed, health workers killed and critical shortages of (…)
A cargo plane carrying 15 metric tonnes of much needed life-saving medicines and surgical supplies for almost 40 000 people landed in Deir ez-Zor (…)
Below is an email ACLU supporters received from Edward Snowden Thursday, one year to the day since The Guardian broke the first in a series of (…)
The Council yesterday adopted Negotiating Directives for a bilateral Political Dialogue and Co-operation Agreement with Cuba. Welcoming the (…)
DAMASCUS, Syria ¦ 7 January 2014 – Over the past two weeks the World Health Organization (WHO) delivered two shipments with more than 125 tons of (…)
Seven Greenpeace International activists peacefully demonstrated in a Mauritian port on Sunday against a South Korean vessel accused of unlawful (…)
Over 50 countries have made renewed efforts to tackle over-fishing and other threats to migratory shark species as part of a new UN-backed (…)
Dubai based Emirates Airline has ordered a further 32 A380s from Airbus, taking their total firm orders for the iconic flagship of the 21st (…)
Africa faces a double burden of obesity and hunger as millions take up increasingly sedentary lives in cities and the global financial crisis hits (…)
Health officials said they were trying to keep disease at bay in the aftermath of the powerful quake that hit Indonesia’s West Sumatra Province, (…)
A six-year clinical trial in Thailand has yielded the first ever evidence that an AIDS vaccine can provide some protection against HIV infection. (…)