Nations most vulnerable to the impacts of global warming yesterday called for rich countries to live up to their promise to finance the fight against climate change, ahead of a crunch UN summit.

Amnesty International yesterday said that migrants held in Libyan detention camps are subject to horrific sexual violence at the hands of guards, including being forced to barter sex for clean water, food and access to sanitation. 

Climate change and deforestation have flipped a large swathe of the Amazon basin from absorbing to emitting planet-warming CO2, a transformation that could turn humanity’s greatest natural ally in the fight against global warming into a foe, researchers reported on Wednesday. 

A Mexican court has sentenced a man to 208 years in prison for the criminal homicides of 26 people, most of them children, who died when a school collapsed during a powerful earthquake that struck Mexico City in 2017, authorities said on Wednesday. 

Nearly 23 million children missed out on routine vaccinations last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the highest number in more than a decade, fuelling outbreaks of measles, polio and other preventable diseases, UN agencies said yesterday. 

President Joe Biden welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the White House on Thursday for what is likely her last official visit to Washington, and she’s conveying a message to Berlin’s close ally: You’ve got a friend.

Celebrity Dutch crime reporter Peter R. De Vries has died just over a week after being shot in the street, his family and his employer RTL Netherlands news said on Thursday.

At least eight people have died and dozens of people are missing in Germany after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away cars and causing some buildings to collapse.

The UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday highlighted the global “scourge” of systemic racism and ordered an independent investigation into racially-fuelled police violence around the world.  

1961 - Spain accepts equal rights for men and women

France’s antitrust watchdog yesterday slapped a 500 million euro ($593 million) fine on Alphabet’s Google for failing to comply fully with temporary orders it had given in a row with the country’s news publishers.

A record number of French people sought to book appointments for Covid-19 vaccinations on Monday night after President Emmanuel Macron announced a slew of measures designed to push sceptics to get themselves jabbed.

Schools remain shut in 19 countries due to the pandemic, affecting 156 million children in what risks being “a generational catastrophe,” the heads of two UN agencies warned Monday. 

We will look back in anger, and we will look back in shame.

1789 – Storming of the Bastille in Paris. This event escalates the widespread discontent into the French Revolution.

Commuters soared over one of the world’s biggest and most traffic-clogged cities as a new cable car system went into operation in the Mexican capital on Monday. 

The UN rights chief yesterday called for countries to do more to dismantle systemic racism against black people, urging acknowledgement and reparations for past wrongs.  

The Covid pandemic caused an estimated 18 percent increase in the number of people facing hunger, a UN report released yesterdayfound, dealing a massive setback to efforts to ensure everyone has access to food.  

A 90-year-old woman who died after falling ill with Covid-19 was infected with both the Alpha and Beta variants of the coronavirus at the same time,

Antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” -- which the World Health Organization calls one of the top global threats to public health -- usually conjure images of hospital settings.