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Trump Commits $300 Million To Fight Africa Famine
US President Donald Trump told Pope Francis on Wednesday he was committing more than $300 million (270 million euros)...
North Korea Can Fire Its Ballistic Missile From ANYWHERE, Images Show
North Korea's latest missile launch showed that the county's military is able to operate weapons from anywhere in the...
400,000 DR Congo Children At Risk In Violence-Hit Kasai
Almost 400,000 children risk dying of hunger in DR Congo's troubled Kasai region where months of violence has driven...
More Donors Can Absorb ‘shock’ of Any US Cuts
The World Health Organization should expand its donor base to better withstand the "shock" from planned deep budget...
African Candidate Wins Top WHO Job
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from Ethiopia will be the next director general of the World Health Organization (WHO). He...
Thai Teen Among Latest Group Held For ‘royal Insults’
A 14-year-old boy has been detained in a Thai army prison under a draconian and increasingly wielded royal defamation...
Jailed Chinese Lawyer Force-Fed Medication, Wife Says
When human rights lawyer Li Heping returned to his home in Beijing after a two-year incarceration, his wife did not...
Portrait of Myanmar’s ‘Buddhist Bin Laden’ Chills Cannes
Barbet Schroeder spent months with Ugandan dictator Idi Amin at the height of his power, when corpses would wash up...
Ghana To Request Extension of IMF Programme To Dec 2018
An extension would reassure markets and also likely bring in additional IMF funds Ghana's government will ask the...
Does India Risk Hague Return For Gogoi’s ‘war Crimes’ In Kashmir?
As news broke that India's army had commended a senior officer who tied a Kashmiri man to a jeep and used him as a...
India Launches Assault On Pakistan Army Posts To Deter Infiltration
India has announced that it has fired mortars at Pakistani army posts across their disputed border in Kashmir, a rare...
China’s UN Envoy Says ‘no Reason’ Not To Talk With N.Korea
China's UN ambassador said Tuesday that there was "no reason" to refuse dialogue with North Korea despite a series of...
ICC Prosecutor Says C. Africa Bloodshed ‘must Stop Now’
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor on Tuesday called for an immediate halt to the renewed sectarian...
UN Questions DR Congo Probe of Experts’ Murder
The United Nations raised questions Tuesday about the Democratic Republic of Congo's probe of the murder of two UN...
Ethiopia’s Tedros Elected New WHO Chief
Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom was elected as the new head of the powerful World Health Organization on Tuesday, vowing to...
WHO Reform A Top Priority For Ethiopia’s Tedros
The first African to head the World Health Organization, Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom, says he aims to replicate his...
Fresh Shipwreck In Med, Migrants Tell UNHCR
Migrants rescued off the coast of Libya have described discovering a shipwrecked dinghy at sea, saying dozens of people...
UN To Honour Two Ghanaian Peacekeepers Posthumously
Two fallen peacekeepers from Ghana will be honoured at the United Nations Headquarters on Wednesday, 24 May, to mark...
UN Seeks Security For Syria Gas Attacks Investigators
The United Nations is working to obtain security assurances needed to dispatch an international team of experts to the...