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Climate summit in Brazil needs to find way to stop global heating accelerating amid stark divisions

Eight global millennium development goals were established in 2000 by member states of the United Nations (UN) and endorsed by other multilateral organisations. They ranged from eliminating hunger to empowering women, and from reducing child mortality to environmental sustainability.

Tens of thousands of Sudanese have fled to overcrowded camps to escape atrocities by a paramilitary force since it captured el-Fasher in the Western Darfur region

World leaders, activists, experts and many more are in or headed to Brazil for this year's annual United Nations climate talks

Diana Shams wrote a book because ‘no one explains how to carry your baby through fire, hunger and fear – and still sing to her at bedtime’

A former International Criminal Court chief prosecutor claimied on Thursday that the vessel strikes would qualify under international law as a crime against humanity

Shabana Mahmood’s proposals draw scorn from some Labour MPs, while others want government to go further

DISPATCH FROM BRAZIL: The US president’s loud cries of a climate ‘con job’ are being ignored, Nick Ferris writes from Belem

Israel turns the violence up and down at will, maintaining full dominion over Gaza and the West Bank, then calls each pause a generous ‘ceasefire’