By UN NewsCoinciding with Universal Health Coverage Day on Thursday the World Health Organization (WHO) released its 2024 Global Health Expenditure Report, revealing troubling declines in government health spending.The report, titled Global Spending...

By AFP/Anna KorkmanAt a popular meeting spot for substance abusers near central Helsinki, even the addicts warn that Finland has a spiralling drug problem, particularly among young people.The situation had reached "a whole new level", one man in his...

By AFP/Richard CarterA feared Sudanese militia chief "willingly and enthusiastically" participated in war crimes, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor charged Wednesday, laying out searing accusations of rape, murder, and torture.Prose...

By AFP/Paul RicardIsrael has been accused of carrying out a "massacre" of journalists in Gaza in two separate reports from media freedom organisations this week that analysed the deaths of reporters worldwide this year.According to calculations from...

By AFP/Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOISThe UN General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza, a symbolic gesture rejected by the United States and Israel.The resolution -- adopte...

By AFPSudan has become the "biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded" after 20 months of devastating war between rival generals, the International Rescue Committee said in a report released Wednesday."The country accounts for 10 percent of all peopl...

By AFPThe cooling weather phenomenon La Nina could appear in coming months, but if it does it will likely be too "weak and short-lived" to significantly impact soaring global temperatures, the UN said Wednesday.There is currently a 55-percent likelih...

By AFP/Marchio GorbianoIndonesian fruit seller Budi was seeking better prospects when he signed up for an IT job in Cambodia. But he found himself detained in a heavily guarded compound where he was forced to carry out online scams."When I arrived th...

By AFP/Dylan Gamba"I don't know when I'll be able to go back to school," 14-year-old Desta said, one of millions of children in northern Ethiopia's Amhara region deprived of school.Desta has not been in a classroom for nearly four months and now divi...

By AFPGoogle on Wednesday announced the launch of Gemini 2.0, its most advanced artificial intelligence model to date, as the world's tech giants race to take the lead in the fast developing technology.CEO Sundar Pichai said the new model would mark...

By AFP/Ognjen ZoricSerbian journalist Radmilo Markovic has gone over every full stop and comma of an article about the powerful mayor of Belgrade that has landed him in court.Aleksandar Sapic is demanding 100,000 euros ($105,000) in damages from the...

By UN NewsThe number of victims of human trafficking detected globally is rising again after falling off during the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in its latest report on the issue, covering 156 countries.The 2024 Gl...