Voters have handed Anura Kumara Dissanayake a significant win in a snap general election, giving its new leftist president greater legislative power to pursue policies to alleviate poverty.

Donald Trump has chosen conspiracy theorist and vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and ...

In an open letter to the UN, a group of scientists and climate experts said COP needs to "shift away from negotiations to the delivery of concrete action." It also called for an end of climate ...

EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell wants the bloc to halt some dialogue with Israel. The proposal is almost certainly ...

Wealthy countries need to double the amount of public money being used to help poorer nations cope with a warming world, say ...

The G20 summit in Rio aims to build consensus on taxing the super-rich for climate action and poverty relief. But as ...

Is Bluesky stepping out of the shadow of X in the wake of the US election? The spike in users and another startup of ...

Although the eight million tourists who visit Prague every year are a boon to the city's economy, there is a downside to the ...

While New Delhi does not recognize the Taliban rule in Afghanistan, reports say a Taliban "acting consul" is already in ...

New Zealand's parliament was suspended after Maori lawmakers performed a haka to interrupt a vote on a controversial bill.

A ruling by the Higher Administrative Court of Berlin-Brandenburg means Russian conscientious objectors who fled their ...

The European Parliament has bowed to pressure from various stakeholders and voted to delay a landmark deforestation ...