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Russia's war in Ukraine has pushed global displacement numbers above 100 million for the first time, and the UN warns the resulting hunger crisis could force many more to flee their homes. Efforts to address the global food insecurity crisis, which has been dramatically aggravated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine,…

Australia's new center-left government submitted more ambitious emissions targets to the United Nations Thursday, seeking to end a decade of foot-dragging on climate change. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese raised the country's 2030 emissions reduction target to 43 percent, up from a more modest previous target of 26-28 percent, AFP said.…

The US administration of President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced an additional $1 billion in security aid for Ukraine, the largest single package of weapons and equipment offered to the Eastern European country in the war against Russia.

David Lammy and Preet Gill were the first senior British politicians to visit Afghanistan since the fall of Kabul.

The federal government has formally committed to the United Nations that Australia will reduce its carbon emissions by 43 per cent by the end of the decade.

A food security crisis stoked by the Ukraine war is set to push more people to flee their homes in poorer countries, driving record levels of global displacement even higher, the head of the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said.

That's more people than live in Germany or Vietnam.

The head of the U.N. refugee agency says Europe should be more much worried than it is that larger numbers of people from Africa’s Sahel region could seek to move north

HYDERABAD: Spiritual guru Jaggi Vasudev, better known as Sadhguru, weighed in on the need to focus on soil enrichment as the number one environmental issue.