An estimated 33 million people have been affected by the “worst flooding in decades "and more than 1,000 people, mostly children”, have died since mid-June when heavy rains began pounding…
Thirty years ago, photographer Brian Lanker made indelible images of historical lives; a new exhibition says their stories have never seemed more relevant https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/these-black-women-changed-america-180980633/
The United Nations (UN) has noted an increase in abuse, exploitation and violence against children in Sri Lanka as a result of the economic crisis. George Laryea-Adjei, the UNICEF Regional…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia late Friday blocked agreement on the final document of a four-week review of the U.N. treaty considered the cornerstone of nuclear disarmament which criticized its…
KYIV (AP) — A U.N. nuclear watchdog team set off on an urgent mission Monday to safeguard the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia atomic power plant at the heart of fighting in Ukraine, a long-awaited…
An article in the Nature Climate Change journal argues that non-violent direct action taken by experts is effective 15:00 UTC Monday, 29 August 2022 Scientists should commit acts of civil…
A team of UN atomic energy experts set out on Monday for Zaporizhzya nuclear power station in Ukraine, after months of rising tensions between Ukrainian and Russian forces, who have accused each…
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO OSORNO, Chile (AP) — In labor with her first child last month, Lucia Hernández Rumian danced around her hospital room while her husband played the kultrun, a…
Man resisted all attempts to contact him, laying traps and firing arrows at anyone who came too close https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsXj15ECoCU&feature=emb_title An unidentified and charismatic Indigenous man thought to have been the…
JERUSALEM (AP) — A group of artists has filled a Palestinian area of east Jerusalem with paintings of large, wide-open eyes. The murals are a reminder that all eyes are…