Considered something of a lightweight on foreign policy issues, Japan’s new prime minister has spent much of his career in the shadows, supporting previous leader Shinzo Abe with backroom bureaucratic maneuvers and in largely...
Read MoreBorn out of World War II’s devastation to save succeeding generations from the scourge of conflict, the United Nations officially marks its 75th anniversary Monday at an inflection point in history, navigating a polarized world...
Read MoreThe World Health Organization’s Europe office said it has begun discussions with Russia to try to obtain more information about the experimental COVID-19 vaccine the country recently approved. Last week, Russia became the first...
Read MoreU.N. Secretary-General António Guterres urged countries Monday not to lose hope in the fight against climate change, as representatives from nearly 200 countries gathered in Madrid for a two-week meeting on tackling global...
Read MoreCountries need to begin making steep cuts to their greenhouse gas emissions immediately or risk missing the targets they’ve agreed for limiting global warming, with potentially dire consequences, senior United Nations officials...
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The topic of addressing climate change echoed across the world this past weekend. Many countries...
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Human-caused climate change is dramatically degrading the Earth’s land and the way people...
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You may go your entire life without seeing an endangered species, yet the globe’s...
Read MoreThe United Nations is set to unveil Sustainable Development Goals in New York in front of the Pope on Friday. A group of ambitious teenagers from Carrboro High will also be in attendance. “In 2000, the United Naitons set the...
Read MoreThe United Nations has estimated that up to 100,000 people have been killed since the Syrian conflict…
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