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Experts identify potentially serious breaches over treatment of people and call for ‘one in, one out’ scheme to end

An environmental expert from Nigeria, a climate policy consultant from Kenya, an oceanographer from Indonesia and an Indigenous social development specialist from the Philippines will are among dozens of experts in the UK this month as the UN’s top climate body meets to rewrite the the rules for compiling the…

After more than a decade of war, a surge of violence in northern Syria is forcing thousands of people to flee – even as others return to a fractured country under a fragile interim government. With two-thirds of the population in need of urgent assistance and the UN humanitarian response…

The author on taking solace in Joan Didion, discovering Donna Tartt and being cheered up by David Sedaris

In the 1960s, major oil-producing nations formed a cartel to drive up the price of oil. It worked. For decades, nations in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have agreed to manage supply and raise prices.

Although weakened by airstrikes, sanctions and domestic unrest, Tehran is surprisingly bullish before talks with US

Toxicity from farm chemicals increased for most species groups between 2013 and 2019, with insects worst affected

President condemns ‘environmental and health crime’ as critics say Israel seeks to make southern Lebanon uninhabitable

Basic services at the al-Hol camp in northeast Syria are functioning normally after recent disruptions

Famine is spreading in Sudan's western Darfur region, UN-backed experts have warned, as a grinding war between the army and paramilitary forces has left millions hungry, displaced and cut off from aid.

The US vice president leads the US delegation at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, calling the Games a rare unifying moment as world leaders gather for the opening.