U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said politicians must take responsibility when xenophobia takes root in their societies.
The WHO declares that air pollution is responsible for more than 600,000 child deaths each year and should be considered a global "public health crises."
Angela Merkel announces that she'll step down as German chancellor in 2021. Two biographers consider her legacy.
A new report finds that Myanmar's military demolished more than 390 villages and likely killed more than 10,000 Rohingya Muslims in 2017. What will the world do about it?
A top U.N. human rights expert suggests Saudi officials implicated in the death of Jamal Khashoggi are too senior to absolve the state of responsibility.
New U.S. data privacy laws loom on the horizon, and tech companies are hoping business-friendly federal rules supersede more restrictive state laws.
President Trump is ordering the U.S. to withdraw from a key 1987 arms control treaty with Russia. Experts worry about the arms race that could follow.
President Trump is misreading America's responsibilities toward Central American asylum seekers under U.S. and international law.
No joke: Experts think a papal visit to North Korea fits nicely into Pope Francis' vision for the Catholic Church.
Rights groups demand an independent U.N. investigation of the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The ball is in Turkey's court.
A top U.N. torture expert and the director of the Committee to Project Journalists say that the human rights landscape is worsening globally.
President Trump threatens to cut foreign aid to Honduras if the country doesn't stop 2,000 migrants from heading northward toward the US.
The U.N. and other humanitarian agencies say peace in Yemen is the only way to avert potentially millions of deaths from hunger.
Eritrea joins an unsavory slate of rights-abusing nations in winning three-year membership to the UN Human Rights Council.
The State of Washington and the Asian nation of Malaysia move to end the death penalty, joining 19 states and 105 countries in doing so.
A new UN report says the world may be just 12 years away from triggering the severe and irreversible effects of climate change.
A new blockchain application rolled in Jordan’s refugee camps is making U.N. aid more efficient and empowering female refugees in the process.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo returns from North Korea and says Kim Jong Un is open to inspectors visiting one of the country's nuclear test sites.
Congolese physician Denis Mukwege and Yazidi sexual violence activist Nadia Murad win the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.
Thousands continue to await humanitarian aid six days after a major earthquake and tsunami hit Indonesia's Sulawesi Island.
New data from the Pew Research Center shows a world receptive to American leadership, even as Chinese power grows.
What the Republic of Macedonia chooses to call itself has major implications for geopolitics and the success of diplomacy in the post-Cold War period.