Amid Signs of Softer Foreign Policy Tone, Is China About to Shift Its Russia Policy?
[ad_1] AdvertisementBeijing has hinted in recent weeks that it will dampen its "wolf warrior" rhetoric and seek to reduce tensions with the United States and,...
UK and Africa to hold discussions with African leaders on rising food insecurity | Law-Order
The Minister for Development and Africa will this week hold consultations with African leaders on growing food insecurity. Andrew Mitchell will address this challenge...
Opinion | How Not to Negotiate with Russia
[ad_1] Needless to say, it didn’t work. While we were holding back, Russia was building up. The Minsk process ended when Russia unleashed a devastating...
Will Germany Send Tanks to Ukraine?
Welcome to today’s Morning Brief, where we’re looking at deliberations over German tank exports, Japan’s declining birth rate, and corruption investigations in Ukraine. If you...
Mali: WHO doctor seized by ‘unidentified assailants’, as UNHCR raises alarm over continuing violence
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a tweet posted on Tuesday that WHO was working with local authorities to investigate the abduction of Dr. Mahamadou Diawara,...
Police overwhelmed, development stalled, as gang violence spirals in Haiti
“Years of hard-fought recovery gains are being undone, and Haitians are grappling with setting the country back on a path to democracy,” said Helen La...
Top UN body asks what more can be done to stop genocide, atrocity crimes
The UN fears risk of these atrocities is heightened given current global crises that include conflict, soaring food and energy costs, and deepening inequalities and...
UN chief calls for worldwide commitment to transforming education
He called for countries to deliver education systems “that can support equal societies, dynamic economies and the limitless dreams of every learner in the world.”...
Palestinian refugees face hitting ‘rock bottom’, warns UNRWA in $1.6 billion appeal
Head of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, told journalists in Geneva that competing global crises, and skyrocketing levels of poverty and unemployment among Palestine refugees, have put...
Crises hindering victim identification: UNODC human trafficking report
Globally, the number of victims detected fell by 11 per cent in 2020 from the previous year, driven by fewer detections in low and medium-income countries....