The United Nations has launched a “misinformation war” against those questioning the U.N. narrative of a human-induced climate crisis and its COVID policies, including vaccinations, lockdowns, and mask-wearing.
The floods from storm Daniel that devastated Libya became the country’s largest natural catastrophe in years Thursday, with authorities fearing that more than 20,000 people have died.
The secretary general of the NATO military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, has warned the world there will be no swift end to the Ukraine war. His comments came as Kyiv pushes on with its counteroffensive against Russia.
Efforts by Poland’s conservative governing party to make migration a campaign theme seemed to fail Sunday after revelations that diplomats provided 250,000 visas in exchange for bribes.
The government of democratically-ruled Taiwan weighed its options Friday after Communist-run China’s military surrounded the island in a threatening drill.
Britain, Germany, France, and the United States told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Thursday that further action would be needed on Iran if the country did not fulfill legal obligations and clarify issues over nuclear material.
A Russian pilot tried to shoot down a British military spy plane after believing he had permission to fire, officials said Thursday.
On Thursday, the European Central Bank (ECB) raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, with the deposit rate reaching 4 percent, the highest in its two-decade history.
In a warning to Russia, the U.S.-led NATO alliance will conduct its largest military exercise since the Cold War involving tens of thousands of troops, officials confirmed Thursday.
Hope to find survivors was fading Thursday, nearly a week after a rare 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Morocco, killing and injuring thousands of people, authorities said.
A constant stream of bodies was seen in eastern Libya early Thursday as the official death toll of the nation’s deadliest flooding rose to far above 5,000.
Scientists in China have successfully grown early-stage human kidneys inside pig embryos, in research that may one day contribute to the supply of much-needed human organs for transplant patients, Live Science reports.
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, has made clear he backs Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during a Wednesday summit with President Vladimir Putin. The two met to discuss military cooperation despite U.S. warnings and amid reports that Ukraine had attacked the home base of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Crimea.
The U.S. is one step closer to a deal to release five Americans held captive by the Iranian regime.
The European Union’s top executive wants a world authority to supervise global digital identity documents, similar to coronavirus vaccine passports and artificial intelligence (AI).
Thousands of people died, and at least 10,000 residents remained missing after a Mediterranean storm dumped torrential rain on Libya’s coast, setting off massive flooding, authorities said Tuesday.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported Sunday that trafficking of the highly addictive methamphetamine synthetic drug has skyrocketed in Afghanistan and neighboring countries. In a press statement Sunday, UNODC said seizures of methamphetamine soared from 2.5 tons in 2017 to 29.7 tons in 2021.
A court in the Netherlands has sentenced a former Pakistani cricketer to 12 years in prison for offering a reward to kill Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders.
International teams joined state efforts to find survivors between the ruins of Morocco’s biggest earthquake in over a century as the death toll approached 3,000, with many still lying beneath the rubble.
Ethiopia says it has finished filling a reservoir for its controversial hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile river – a project which once prompted Egyptian politicians to discuss military action.