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The WHO says two experimental vaccines could lead to trials being done in West Africa in January, while another flu drug is being tested as well.
Russia’s desire to keep its last remaining ally in the Middle East collided head-long with the United States’ desire to remove President Bashar Assad.
Some 15 million to 60 million jobs
Bill Gates has rescued a beleaguered health fund by pledging $750-million to fight three of world’s killer diseases — Aids, malaria and TB.
A 54-year-old man has admitted sexually abusing more than 100 mentally disabled children and adults in care homes in Switzerland and Germany.
Tension arising from the UN Security Council’s reliance on African nations to supply peacekeepers came into sharper focus on Friday.
An informal band of nations and organisations fighting piracy off the coast of Somalia have agreed to set up two new international funds.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon ended a mission to Burma on Saturday saying he was ”deeply disappointed”.
The world’s largest UN peacekeeping effort risks unraveling in the the DRC, hampered by the potential loss of more than a quarter of its troops
UN chief Ban Ki-moon will embark on an African tour next week in a bid to shore up DRC’s peacekeeping mission and press for climate-change progress.
Charlize Theron is the latest UN messenger of peace, turning her fame to ending violence against women and girls around the globe.
The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court charges that ”the whole state apparatus” of Sudan is implicated in crimes against humanity in the Darfur region, linking…
A new war could break out between Eritrea and Ethiopia if the United Nations peacekeeping mission that has been prevented from patrolling both sides of the border withdraws…
United Nations peacekeepers resupplied their food but were running low on fuel on Tuesday after being forced to withdraw all personnel to the Eritrean capital, unable to get…
The United Nations Security Council opened the door on Friday to new economic, political or military sanctions against Sudan because of an attack by its troops on a UN…
More than two-thirds of the world’s polar bears will be killed off by 2050 — the species completely gone from Alaska — because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the…
Producers of half the world’s greenhouse gases are angling for more private investment to create cleaner energy technologies and help slow global warming. The White House said…
