Observers call for more concrete action from rich nations to ensure food security, say G7’s latest initiative is ‘half-baked’ and lacks details.

The United Nations’ World Heritage Committee has recommended Stonehenge be listed as in danger after experts warned of ‘permanent, irreversible harm’ to the area from a planned road tunnel.

UN Palestinian refugee agency sued by 101 plaintiffs in Manhattan court for ‘aiding and abetting Hamas’ genocide, crimes against humanity, and torture’.

Beijing says the move would ‘seriously infringe’ its sovereignty over the disputed South China Sea.

Israel says it has allowed hundreds of trucks of aid into southern Gaza, trading blame with the United Nations over why the aid is stacking up.

A new treaty signed between North Korea and Russia provides for “mutual assistance” in case either country faces aggression, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, in an apparent warning to the West.

Manila’s bid for UN recognition of an extended continental shelf claim could encourage similar moves, adding more complexity to tangled disputes, observers say.

Central African Republic is seeing an influx of millions of refugees, cross-border incursions by the two warring Sudanese rivals.

In a letter, the Russian president vowed to support Pyongyang against ‘US pressure, blackmail and military threats’.

BBC investigation alleged Greece coastguard caused the deaths of 43 migrants in pushback operations in 2020-2023.

A delegation will attend as the talks’ agenda appears ‘beneficial to Afghanistan’, but civil society groups criticise lack of focus on women’s rights.

Let the US impose all the unilateral sanctions it wants in its tech war with China, ‘we are free to do what we like’, Malaysia’s PM says.

The move is aimed at asserting Manila’s exclusive rights to resources in the Western Palawan region.

The question looming over the summit will be how Ukraine and Russia can move back from the brink and eventually silence the guns of war, without Moscow attending.

Since the war began, Canberra has denied supplying directly to Israel, but former diplomats and academics said those words were an “exercise in semantics”.

The United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR said conflicts in places like Gaza, Sudan and Myanmar have forced even more people to flee their homes.

The independent Commission of Inquiry’s report is the United Nations’ first in-depth investigation into the events of the war that erupted on October 7.

Israeli forces, Hamas and Sudan’s warring rivals were added to a UN backlist for killing and injuring children.

Israeli official says Hamas response to US proposal had ‘changed all of the main and most meaningful parameters’.

Blinken said the Hamas statement from an official based outside Gaza was ‘a hopeful sign’ but definitive word was still needed from the Hamas leadership in Gaza.

Fourteen member states voted in favour of the US-drafted resolution, while Russia, one of the veto powers, abstained.

A total of 492 metric tons of humanitarian aid to Gaza has been delivered via the pier after its repair.

Ukraine has arrested thousands of people on suspicion of collaborating with Russian troops since the war began in February 2022.

Until now, no European country has joined South Africa’s case at the UN’s top court. Ireland has also indicated it plans to join the case.

Oxfam said families in some parts of southern Gaza were getting by with barely any water or sanitation services.

Malaysia has been in the spotlight for months over allegations that forced labour, debt bondage and scam jobs have riddled its recruitment market for foreign labour.