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Health Minister Greg Hunt says he will seek advice on claims that a key World Health Organisation director in the region has engaged in racist behaviour.

While communities in Perthshire complain of a shortage of trained doctors, one professional who had to flee from Iran is queuing for a daily food ration in a Greek migration camp, unable to come to the UK without a bureaucratic miracle.

Mali's military regime has taken an "irresponsible" decision by expelling Danish special forces sent to help fight jihadist insurgents, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Thursday. Denmark said the country would withdraw its newly deployed contingent of 90 troops from Mali after repeated demands by the Sahel country's military…

Funds will go only to those provinces where girls are in school if Taliban do not make good on promise

Coalition investment includes funding for water quality projects, pest management and reef science

Dozens of people were killed in an air raid on a prison in Saada, northern Yemen, last week.

Renewed tribal violence near the western Sudanese city of El Geneina over the past week has displaced more than 15,000 people, the United Nations said.

The group has not been able to take any action in its previous meetings as Russia is a veto-wielding member of the security council – follow

KUALA LUMPUR: The world's 20 richest nations should more than double their annual spending to protect and restore nature to US$285 billion by 2050, the United Nations and donors said on Thursday, calling for private and overseas investments to be ramped up too.