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Political calculation, national self-interest and moral confusion lie behind many of the abstainers’ excuses for not taking a firm position on Russia

In Sudan's sprawling Kalma camp for the displaced, Ansaf Omar lives with the gut-wrenching guilt of losing her toddler to a food crisis that has hit millions of people nationwide. "I am severely malnourished so I couldn't breastfeed him," said Omar, 34, a month after her one-and-half-year-old child died in…

Russia's senior diplomat to the United Nations accused the West on Sunday of "cowboy" methods and "arm twisting" of some countries during last week's United Nations General Assembly vote that demanding Moscow withdraw its troops from Ukraine.

The head of the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) said on Saturday he was confronted with "apocalyptic" scenes as he visited earthquake-stricken areas in southern Turkey.

Former US marine’s segregated, maximum security imprisonment is unjustified, wife says

From Vogue photoshoots to lunch with Brangelina, Syria's brutal ruling couple once tried to buy influence. After a decade as international pariahs, will they use a natural disaster to stage their return to the world stage?

People are still lined up nearly two hours after voting was supposed to close in Nigeria during the country’s presidential and parliamentary election which opened with large delays

Jul Sirous and Olha Onipko help run a shelter providing temporary housing for LGBTQ+ refugees of the Ukraine war.

Daniel Duggan, an Australian citizen, was arrested in October by federal police in NSW at the request of American authorities, who accuse him of helping train the Chinese military to fly jet fighters.

Across multiple trips since the start of Russia’s invasion, Bel Trew has been charting the devastating impact of the war on people all over Ukraine

Tunisian law enforcement has launched a wave of repression against the country’s sub-Saharan African population, carrying out random identity checks and sometimes violently arresting them, leaving their children abandoned and offering no access to any kind of legal support. Xenophobic and racist sentiments have also been circulating widely on Tunisian…