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The world could suffer a 40 percent shortfall in water in just 15 years unless countries dramatically change their use of the resource

BAMAKO, Mali—Tuareg separatist protesters in Mali said Wednesday they pushed the U.N.'s mission from an airfield in Kidal ...

UNITED NATIONS—The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday condemned the coup attempt "against the legal and democratic institutions" in ...

UNITED NATIONS—Arab ambassadors met Monday to discuss Palestinian amendments to a U.N. resolution that would call for an ...

Fighting between armed groups in Libya has killed hundreds of civilians and could lead to prosecution for war ...

CONAKRY, Guinea—The worst Ebola outbreak on record has now killed more than 7,000 people, with many of the ...

VIENNA—The U.N. nuclear agency on Thursday turned down an offer by Iran to visit a site, saying access ...

The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved an Arab-backed resolution Tuesday calling on Israel to renounce possession of nuclear ...

South Sudan warned Tuesday that imposing sanctions will only make it harder to find an elusive peace in ...

The U.N. human rights chief called Tuesday for a campaign led by Muslims to undermine the ideology of ...

Many beds are empty at newly opened Ebola treatment units in Liberia's urban centers because the outbreak is ...

The UN on Thursday called on China to allow greater electoral freedom in Hong Kong.

Stepping up their vigilance against Ebola, federal authorities said Wednesday that everyone traveling into the U.S. from Ebola-stricken ...

Detroit’s crisis over water shutoffs has attracted the attention of the United Nations.

Iraqi authorities have executed at least 60 people so far in 2014, a United Nations report said Sunday, ...

Looking back, the mistakes are easy to see: Waiting too long, spending too little, relying on the wrong ...

World Space Week is one of a series of events co-ordinated by the UN to celebrate the global ...

UNITED NATIONS—Syria has declared four chemical weapons facilities it hadn't mentioned before, a special representative of the U.N. ...

More than a thousand sub-Saharan immigrants were rescued by Marine Salvage on the Spanish coast in the second ...

The influence of the veto on the outcome of the Security Council deliberations is well known. But perhaps ...

Behind every great man is a great woman. And for all the men who work for the United ...

Dear Prime Minister. Congratulations on reaching 7 Race Course Road. As you take office, you have numerous political ...

This MEI Policy Paper seeks to address the Syrian war’s effects on Lebanon against the backdrop of exacerbated ...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has released a report on the human rights ...

The new round of talks opened on April 8 marks another step in the race against time to ...

The approach to solving the international crime of counterfeiting was, until recently, based around trying to negotiate with ...

The United Nations Foundation hosted their annual Global Leadership Dinner on Nov. 6 at Gotham Hall in New ...