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Panda figures are displayed on a market place in Bremen, northern Germany, on August 20, 2013. The environmental organisation WWF Germany

WWF: Half the world’s wildlife gone over last 40 years

June 23, 2019 at 5:22 p.m.

The world populations of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles fell overall by 52 percent between 1970 and 2010, far faster than previously thought, the World Wildlife Fund said on...

De Mistura succeeds Brahimi as U.N. Syria mediator: diplomats

August 25, 2021 at 1:20 a.m.

UNITED NATIONS/GENEVA (Reuters) - Veteran United Nations official Staffan de Mistura, a former U.N. special envoy to Afghanistan and Iraq, will replace Lakhdar Brahimi as the international mediator seeking an...

Hundreds killed in Islamist militant advance in Iraq: U.N.

December 23, 2018 at 6:13 p.m.

Hundreds of people were killed, many of them summarily executed, after Sunni Islamist militants overran the Iraqi city of Mosul this week, U.N. human rights spokesman Rupert Colville said on...

Syria calls for help rebuilding health system wrecked by ‘terrorists’

August 25, 2021 at 12:11 a.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Syria's government begged the world for help on Wednesday to rebuild a healthcare system it said had been destroyed by "terrorists", despite reports by U.N. officials that...

After air fares and share sales, U.N. seeks aid money from oil

August 25, 2021 at 12:06 a.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations is talking to oil-producing African countries about levying 10 cents on every barrel produced to provide funds to help the poorest nations improve public...

U.N. official asks if 1 million Syrians must die before world acts

August 24, 2021 at 11:50 p.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - A top U.N. aid official, frustrated by obstacles to humanitarian aid in Syria, asked on Friday if a million people needed to be killed and neighboring states...

One billion people still defecate in public despite health risks: UN

May 14, 2019 at 1:00 a.m.

One billion people worldwide still practice "open defecation" and they need to be told that this leads to the spread of fatal diseases, U.N. experts said on Thursday at the...

U.S. backslides in maternal deaths, bucking global trend

May 14, 2019 at 1:00 a.m.

By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - American women are more likely to die in childbirth than they were two decades ago, making the United States one of the few countries...

Pakistan’s failings to fight polio spark global emergency response

May 14, 2019 at 12:58 a.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Pakistan's failure to stem the spread of polio triggered global emergency health measures on Monday, with the World Health Organization (WHO) recommending all residents must show proof...

Russian memo to WTO says U.S. sanctions are illegal

August 24, 2021 at 11:17 p.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Russia has told the United States that its Ukraine-related sanctions on a Russian bank and Russian citizens are illegal under World Trade Organization rules and must be...

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