Current commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on track for an average 2.7 degrees Celsius temperature rise this century, a United Nations report said on Tuesday, in another stark warning ahead of crunch climate talks.

The next general election in Bangladesh should be held in a transparent and competitive atmosphere with participation from all political parties, said Robert Chatterton Dickson, the British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, yesterday.

A Brazilian Senate investigative committee approved a report on Tuesday that calls for President Jair Bolsonaro to be indicted for nine crimes related to his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, including crimes against humanity.

The United States has issued its first passport with an “X” gender designation — a milestone in the recognition of the rights of people who don’t identify as male or female — and expects to be able to offer the option to nonbinary, intersex and gender-nonconforming people early next year, the State Department said Wednesday.

Angry Sudanese stood their ground yesterday in street protests against a coup, as international condemnation of the military’s takeover poured in ahead of a UN Security Council meeting.

Facebook Inc will fuel more violent unrest around the world unless it stops its algorithms pushing extreme and divisive content, whistleblower Frances Haugen told the British parliament on Monday.

Saudi Arabia pledged more than $1 billion for new environmental initiatives on Monday, as the world’s top oil exporter took further steps to bolster its green credentials ahead of next week’s COP26 climate summit.

The German government has cut its economic growth forecast for this year to 2.6 per cent, but lifted its estimate for next year to 4.1  per cent as supply problems are delaying the recovery in Europe’s largest economy, two sources familiar with the decision said on Tuesday.

Indigenous residents of low-lying islands off northern Australia filed a landmark lawsuit yesterday aimed at forcing the government

The EU’s top negotiator will meet his counterpart from Tehran this week in Brussels for talks on restarting negotiations over Iran’s

Turkey and its Western allies climbed down from a full-blown diplomatic crisis on Monday after foreign embassies said that they

Coal-rich Australia unveiled a much-delayed 2050 net zero emissions target yesterday, in a plan that pointedly dodged thorny details or near-term goals ahead of a landmark UN climate summit.

Police around the world arrested 150 suspects, including several high-profile targets, involved in buying or selling illegal goods online in one of the largest-ever stings targeting the dark web, Europol said yesterday.

Taiwan has not been permitted to contribute to UN efforts. We encourage all UN member states to join us in supporting Taiwan’s robust, meaningful participation throughout the UN system and in the international community.

In March, as claims about the dangers and ineffectiveness of coronavirus vaccines spun across social media and undermined attempts to stop the spread of the virus, some Facebook employees thought they had found a way to help. Instead, Facebook shelved some suggestions from the study. Other changes weren’t made until April.

Two people were killed and four others, including a police officer, were injured on Monday in a shooting at a shopping center in Boise, Idaho, that ended with the lone suspect taken into custody, authorities said.

Roads were blocked, shops were shut, phones were down and mosque loudspeakers blared calls for a general strike in Sudan on Tuesday, a day after the army seized power in a coup.

US President Joe Biden on Monday signed an order imposing new vaccine requirements for most foreign national air travelers and lifting severe travel restrictions on China, India and much of Europe effective November 8, the White House said.

U.S. President Joe Biden will take part in a virtual summit with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Tuesday, the first time in four years Washington will engage at the top level with a bloc it sees as key to its strategy of pushing back against China.

Soldiers arrested most of the members of Sudan’s cabinet yesterday and the military chief dissolved the transitional government, while opponents of the takeover took to the streets where gunfire and injuries were reported.