By AFP/Akshata KapoorArranging fruit crates in a market on the western edge of Amsterdam on Thursday, Mohamed Errakil said the Dutch government's rhetoric a week after the city was shaken by anti-Israeli attacks could encourage discrimination."We're...

By AFPThe UN peacekeeping chief whose force monitors Lebanon's south said redeploying Lebanese troops there is crucial for any solution to more than a year of Hezbollah-Israel clashes that escalated into war in September."The redeployment of the Leba...

By AFPMore than a year of clashes that recently escalated into war have cost Lebanon more than $5 billion in economic losses, with actual structural damage amounting to billions more, the World Bank said on Thursday.Since September 23, Israel has ram...

By UN NewsAs negotiations over how to tackle climate change head into their fifth day in Baku, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed solidarity with young climate advocates at COP29, who told him they are frustrated by the lack of polit...

By UN NewsThe global food import bill is projected to exceed $2 trillion in 2024 – fuelled by the rising cost of everyone’s favourite hot drinks – according to the latest Food Outlook released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Thursda...

By UN NewsAntimicrobial resistance initiatives are back in the spotlight as stakeholders gather in Jeddah, on the Saudi Arabian coast, a few months after a high-level meeting in New York led to the unanimous adoption of a political declaration by the...

Political crises in Sudan are intertwined with armed conflicts, and after nearly twenty months of civil war, basic services have collapsed and food supply chains have been disrupted. According to UN reports, millions of Sudanese are suffering from severe food insecurity, while children and women are dying from malnutrition in the absence of real and practical solutions. The disaster is exacerbated...

By AFPThe EU's outgoing foreign policy chief has urged the bloc to suspend a political dialogue with Israel over human rights concerns in Gaza but it is likely to be vetoed, diplomats said Thursday.Josep Borrell raised his proposal during a meeting o...

By AFP/Louise DEWASTCitrus growers in South Africa are among the businesses most nervous that duty- and quota-free exports to the United States could be scrapped next year when Donald Trump returns to the White House.The fruits are among 1,800 produc...

By AFPThe world's major oil and gas companies have mostly vowed to stop leaking the extremely potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere, but big loopholes in their pledges risk "exacerbating the climate crisis," a report warned Thursday.The r...

By AFPThe percentage of adults suffering from diabetes across the world has doubled over the past three decades, the biggest rises coming in developing countries, a study said Wednesday.The serious health condition affected around 14 percent of all a...

By AFPIsrael's warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, a special UN committee said Thursday, as a Human Rights Watch report said Israel's displacement of Gazans amounts to a "crime against humanity".Israel said HRW's claim...