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World Food Programme funding crisis means aid will be cut to 2.5 million of 5.5 million people reliant on agency.

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin claimed Tuesday that Ukraine's casualties in its much-anticipated counteroffensive were ten times higher than Moscow's even as Kyiv said it was making gains and "moving forward".

President admits Russia has lost 54 tanks in the opening assaults but insists Ukraine’s losses are greater

Africa’s growing population desperately needs clean, modern energy in the home. Currently, more than 900 million people, 85% of the region’s population, still rely on solid biomass fuel (like wood and charcoal) and kerosene for cooking. These energy sources are highly polluting, inefficient and unsafe.

The United States plans to rejoin Unesco, the United Nations' cultural organisation, five years after the previous administration withdrew its membership over funding requirements and alleged bias against Israel.

Remarking on the fact that India was yet to find a place as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on June 13 that the time had come for the U.N. and its bodies to be “more democratic and representative of the…

Climate activist says only ‘rapid and equitable’ phaseout will keep temperatures within 1.5C limit

Cambodia’s long-serving leader says his government will amend the country’s election law to bar anyone who fails to vote from running as a candidate in future elections, in his latest move to marginalize his political foes

Kerala Tourism will soon launch a mobile app to further strengthen the country’s first ‘women-friendly tourism’ initiative launched by the State government to turn the State’s tourism sector gender inclusive

Activists and observers have warned that unchecked violence could prove worse than Darfur’s previous cycle of killings.

At least 46 people, half of them children, were killed in a militia attack on a camp for displaced people in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).