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Environment

COP17 Opens With Nature Finance Far Below Global Promise

YEREVAN, Armenia - Governments are gathering Monday for the United Nations biodiversity conference in Armenia with globa...

World

Ethiopia Invokes Self-Defense as Eritrea Warns of a New Regional War

NAIROBI, Kenya - Ethiopia told the United Nations Security Council that it is taking measures in self-defense against Er...

Politics

U.N. Extends Darfur Arms Embargo as Russia and China Resist Wider Ban

UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council has extended the arms embargo on Sudan's Darfur region for two months, preser...

World

Five Years of Taliban Rule Leave Afghan Women Shut Out

KABUL, Afghanistan - Taliban leaders gathered in Afghanistan's Loya Jirga assembly hall on Saturday to celebrate five ye...

World

ICC Removes Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan in First-Ever Ouster

Member states of the International Criminal Court removed chief prosecutor Karim Khan from office on Friday, July 24, in...