Written by MALLIKA SEN Come visit the Maldives, its president entreated the world at this year’s United Nations General Assembly, moments before switching to an impassioned plea for help combating climate change. The adjacent...
Read MoreWritten by AYA BATRAWY It’s been little more than a month since Kalashnikov-toting Taliban fighters in their signature heavy beards, hightop sneakers and shalwar kameezes descended on the Afghan capital and cemented their...
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Written by PIA SARKAR The inequity of COVID-19 vaccine distribution will come into sharper focus...
Read MoreWritten by DAVID RISING With increasingly strong talk in support of Taiwan, a new deal to supply Australia with nuclear submarines, and the launch of a European strategy for greater engagement in the Indo-Pacific, the U.S. and...
Read MoreWritten by ZEINA KARAM There was a time not long ago when uprisings and wars in the Arab world topped the agenda at the U.N. General Assembly meetings in New York. With most of those conflicts in a stalemate, the world’s focus...
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Written by EDITH M. LEDERER Racism, climate change and worsening divisions among nations and...
Read MoreWritten by ZEKE MILLER President Joe Biden is set to announce that the United States is doubling its purchase of Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots to share with the world up to 1 billion doses as he embraces the goal of vaccinating 70% of...
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Written by EDITH M. LEDERER In person and on screen, world leaders returned to the United Nations...
Read MoreWritten by JAMEY KEATEN The U.N. weather agency says the world — and especially urban areas — experienced a brief, sharp drop in emissions of air pollutants last year amid lockdown measures and related travel restrictions put in...
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Written by TAMEEM AKHGAR, RAHIM FAIEZ and JOSEPH KRAUSS The Taliban completed their sweep of the...
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