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António Guterres was on Friday re-appointed to a second term as UN Secretary-General, pledging as his priority, to continue helping the world chart a course out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Covid-19 cases rose by over 20 percent week-on-week in nearly two dozen African countries and progress on vaccinating Africans is proceeding slowly, with just 0.79 percent of people on the continent fully vaccinated, senior health officials said.

A Palestinian teen who was seriously injured by Israeli military gunfire in an anti-settlement rally in Beita town, south of Nablus, succumbed to his wounds on Thursday, reported WAFA Palestine news agency.

Land degradation from climate change and the expansion of agriculture, cities and infrastructure “undermines the well-being of 3.2 billion people”, the UN chief said on Wednesday in his message for World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.

Domestic workers globally have been among the hardest hit by the COVID crisis, losing more jobs and working hours than other sectors, the UN labour agency ILO said on Tuesday.

Jennifer Mathers, Aberystwyth University No one is expecting any major breakthroughs from US president Joe Biden’s first meeting since his election with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Senior officials on both sides...

The presidents of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine issued a statement Tuesday urging that all investigations into the origins of Covid-19 "be guided by scientific principles" and warning...

Human Rights Watch on Thursday alleged that the United Nations refugee agency improperly collected and shared personal information from ethnic Rohingya refugees with Bangladesh, which shared it with Myanmar to...

The Delta variant of COVID-19, first identified in India, has been detected in 74 countries and continues to spread rapidly amid fears that it is poised to become the dominant strain across globe.

Al Jazeera Media Network on Sunday condemned the online harassment and death threats endured by Kashmiri freelance journalist Raqib Hameed Naik for his investigative report on COVID-19 relief funding...

Benjamin Netanyahu's record 12-year run as Israel prime minister ended on Sunday with parliament approving a new "government of change" led by ultra-nationalist Naftali Bennett. Bennett was sworn in as...

Oxfam International on Saturday warned that the failure of the world's richest nations to lift intellectual property protections for life-saving vaccines could ultimately raise the cost of administering shots...