BUSAN: Divisions between countries have stalled negotiations on the world's first treaty to tackle plastic pollution, after a terse week of talks in South Korea's Busan. Here are some of the sticking ...

Rebel fighters have launched a new counteroffensive in Syria, resulting in the death of over 400 people. Insurgents have ...

Failure to reverse land degradation would "pose challenges for generations", said a UN-backed study. Read more at ...

A Greenland court will decide on Monday whether to further extend the four-month-long detention of anti-whaling activist Paul ...

The top United Nations court will take up the largest case in its history on Monday, when it opens two weeks of hearings into ...

The current escalation only underscores the urgent need for a Syrian-led political solution to the conflict, states in a joint statement of the countries ...

The United Nations' top court on Monday starts hearings on the legal obligation of countries to fight climate change and the ...

Restoring the world's degraded land and holding back its deserts will require at least $2.6 trillion in investment by the end of the decade, the U.N. executive overseeing global talks on the issue ...

Historians believe that people from the southern African nation of Angola accounted for one of the largest numbers of ...

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has asked judges to issue an arrest warrant for the head of Myanmar’s ...

Trump will take a largely deregulatory approach to tech, while aiming to aggressively pursue foreign cyber threat actors.

Vanuatu's climate envoy Ralph Regenvanu says he is not sure whether Australia will back his country's advocacy at a landmark ...