The United Nations Atomic Energy Agency has reported a recent Iranian violation of the nuclear agreement.
According to a report seen by Reuters, the UN atomic watchdog on Friday flagged a fresh violation by Iran of its nuclear pact with major...
ISIS in Mozambique ‘beheading’ children, reports say
ISIS-linked extremists are reportedly beheading children in Mozambique, the BBC claimed on Wednesday. The global jihadist movement has largely been defeated in the Middle East,...
Invisible ‘space hurricane’ detected over North Pole for first time
A 1,000 km. plasma "space hurricane" that raged over the North Pole was confirmed and described by scientists for the first time, the University of...
Blinken: US stands with Israel, ICC lacks jurisdiction to investigate
The US “will continue to uphold our strong commitment to Israel and its security, including by opposing actions that seek to target Israel unfairly.” International...
ICC is probing Israelis for war crimes: What happens now? – analysis
With International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda taking another big step forward against Israelis on Wednesday regarding the 2014 Gaza war and the settlement enterprise,...
ICC prosecutor announces formal investigation into Israeli ‘war crimes’
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced on Wednesday that she is opening a full war crimes probe against Israel and the Hamas terrorist group...
Standing with Israel against the ICC boosts credibility
The International Criminal Court’s decision earlier this month giving itself authority to investigate war-crime allegations against Israel over the 2014 military campaign against Hamas in...
Iran’s use of ‘electric shocks’ on gay children is torture, says UN repor
A UN report released Wednesday on widespread human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran contains shocking findings that the theocratic state imposed electric...
U.N. in talks with U.S. on Central American refugees applying for asylum from home
The United Nations Refugee Agency has held initial talks with U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration about Central American asylum claimants being processed in their own...
U.S. to scrutinize WHO report that rules out COVID-19 came from Chinese lab
The Biden administration is looking forward to scrutinizing data included in a World Health Organization report released on Tuesday that said the COVID-19 virus did...
COVID may have taken ‘convoluted path’ to Wuhan, WHO team leader says
The head of a World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of COVID-19 said bats remain a likely source and that transmission of the virus...
Rescuers search for 125 missing after glacier burst in Indian Himalayas, many believed trapped in tunnel
Hundreds of military personnel were deployed in the Indian Himalayas on Monday to help find at least 125 people unaccounted for after a part of...
Will Israel try to isolate or dialogue with ICC? – analysis
For six years Israel has played a dual game fighting the potential International Criminal Court war crimes allegations facing it regarding the Palestinians. Prime Minister...
Drug companies should share vaccine-making capacity – WHO
The World Health Organisation director-general is calling on pharmaceutical companies to share manufacturing facilities to help ramp up the production of Covid-19 vaccines. The number...
COVID-19: Here’s why global travel is unlikely to resume ‘till 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly referred to Israel’s national vaccination campaign as the “light at the end of the tunnel.” If the majority of...
ICC rules it has jurisdiction to probe war crimes against Israelis
Israelis are a step closer to facing war crimes suits for actions against the Palestinians now that the ICC has ruled it has the jurisdiction...
WHO team in Wuhan hold “good discussions” with Chinese counterparts
A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday visited the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in China’s central...
UN Watch report highlights anti-Israel bias at UN Human Rights Council
The watchdog organization UN Watch published its first-ever report on Monday detailing the strong anti-Israel claims made at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)...
U.N. chief to foreign forces: ‘Leave the Libyans alone’
The U.N. Security Council and Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for thousands of foreign fighters and mercenaries to immediately leave Libya, with Guterres demanding...
U.N. chief Guterres hopes for ‘reset’ in U.S.-China relations
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday he hopes there will be a “reset” in U.S.-China relations, acknowledging that while the countries had “different views”...
International Holocaust Remembrance Day goes online for 2021
Yad Vashem has also created a sub section of its website featuring online exhibitions, educational resources and the unique “IRemember Wall.” Reflected image of Zalman...
Moderna COVID-19 vaccine should not be used on pregnant women – WHO
Regarding pregnant women's reactions to coronavirus vaccines in general, no research was published so far, that it be for Moderna or Pfizer's vaccines. Visibly pregnant...
WHO gives initial nod to first Israeli-sponsored resolution
The World Health Organization’s Executive Board on Monday approved for the first time an Israeli-sponsored resolution when its 34 members supported a text to protect...
Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests
Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher. Altogether, an estimated 28...
UK to launch global climate adaptation effort with partner countries
Britain will team up with Egypt, Bangladesh, Malawi, Saint Lucia and the Netherlands to help communities around the world that are threatened by climate change...
U.S. rejoins fight against climate change at high level summit
The United States will mark its return to the global fight against climate change on Monday by joining high level talks on ways to better...
Antisemitism is expected to rise significantly around the world in 2021
Ministry decries ‘first institutional threat to Jewish religious freedom in Europe since the Holocaust'. A float featuring antisemitic caricatures at the Aalst Carnival parade in...
ICC has arrested Central African Republic war crimes suspect Said: statement
The International Criminal Court on Sunday said it had taken into custody a former Central African Republic commander of the “Seleka” faction suspected of war...
What will the US return to the Paris Agreement mean for earth?
Within hours of becoming president of the US, Joe Biden has moved to recommit his country to the Paris Agreement - the internationally binding treaty...
Step up adaptation to climate change now or risk ‘enormous toll’, scientists warn
More than 3000 scientists on Friday called for a far bigger global push to protect people and nature from the effects of a heating planet,...
World Bank provides Lebanon with $34M to buy vaccines
The World Bank approved $34 million in emergency financing to Lebanon to allow the country to purchase vaccines against the coronavirus. For more stories from...
Rich nations ‘hugely exaggerate’ climate finance: study
Rich countries have over-reported finance to help countries adapt to the impacts of climate change by $20 billion over the last decade, leaving at-risk communities...
How world leaders are reacting to Joe Biden’s inauguration
Here is how world leaders are reacting to U.S. President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday, replacing Donald Trump. JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER YOSHIHIDE SUGA, IN...
Global stocks waver as COVID-19 fears trump recovery hopes
Global stock markets wavered on Monday as soaring COVID-19 cases offset investor hopes of a quick economic recovery, even after data showing that the Chinese...
Independent pandemic review panel critical of China, WHO delays
An independent panel said on Monday that Chinese officials could have applied public health measures more forcefully in January to curb the initial COVID-19 outbreak,...
Helen Clark-led Covid-19 independent review panel criticises China, WHO
An independent panel says Chinese officials could have applied public health measures more forcefully in January to curb the initial Covid-19 outbreak, and criticised the...
Mesut Ozil confirms new shirt number
Mesut Ozil’s imminent transfer to Fenerbahce is getting closer, with the player already appearing to have confirmed his new shirt number, the UK Metro reports....
Britain invites G7 leaders to Cornish resort for June summit
Britain announced plans to hold the first in-person meeting of the G7 for nearly two years in June, inviting the leaders of major developed economies...
Global COVID-19 death toll tops 2 million
The worldwide coronavirus death toll surpassed 2 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, as nations around the world are trying to procure multiple...
‘Heart-wrenching milestone’: Covid death toll reaches 2m
The worldwide coronavirus death toll has surpassed 2 million, according to a Reuters tally, as nations around the world are trying to procure multiple vaccines...
‘QAnon Shaman’ Jake Angeli charged over pro-Trump riots
Federal agents arrested two more Capitol Hill rioters whose images had gone viral, of one carrying off the House speaker's lectern and another who wore...
Banished by Twitter, an isolated Trump faces looming impeachment threat
With only days left in his presidency, Donald Trump - silenced by Twitter and shunned by a growing number of Republican officials - faces a...
Global temperatures reached record highs in 2020, EU scientists say
Last year tied with 2016 as the world's warmest on record, rounding off the hottest decade globally as the impacts of climate change intensified, the...
Uganda’s Bobi Wine asks ICC to investigate rights abuses
Uganda’s main opposition leader asked the International Criminal Court on Thursday to investigate President Yoweri Museveni and senior officials for sanctioning human rights abuses in...
Japan leads 2021 world’s powerful passports, Nigeria 97th (See full list)
Japan maintains its lead into 2021 as the world’s most powerful passport. The Asian giant has held the top spot since 2018. The Henley Passport...
WHO’s Tedros ‘very disappointed’ China hasn’t granted entry to coronavirus experts
The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday he was “very disappointed” that China has still not authorised the entry of a team...
Pope recognizes the resignation of the archbishop of Belarus, who has upset Lukashenko
Pope Francis on Sunday accepted the resignation of the head of the Catholic Church in Belarus, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, who spent time in exile last...
Covid-19 ‘might get more intense’ across world over coming weeks, warns Michael Baker
The new Covid-19 variant found in the UK is set to become more prevalent across the world due to its more transmissible nature, an epidemiologist...
Coronavirus vaccine: How will it affect the future of flying
Here are factors to consider as the vaccine begins its rollout. PHILIPPINE AMBASSADOR Neal Imperial addresses Filipino students at Ben-Gurion Airport as they wait to...
New Covid-19 variant raises transmission ‘R number’ by 0.7- BBC
The new variant of Covid-19 is "hugely" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found. And while not more deadly, more transmission...