An investigator for the UN Human Rights Council urged member states on Thursday (July 9) to pressure Saudi Arabia to free women activists before a G20 nations summit which Riyadh will be hosting in No

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday (July 9) it was setting up an independent panel to review its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the response by governments worldwide.

Often working in shops, cafes and factories, refugees have been harder hit by coronavirus-triggered job cuts than citizens in their host countries, US development groups said on Wednesday (July 8).

The United States will leave the World Health Organization (WHO) on July 6, 2021, the United Nations said on Tuesday (July 7), after receiving notification of the decision by President Donald Trump, w

Foreign students must leave the United States if their school’s classes this fall will be taught completely online or transfer to another school with in-person instruction, the US Immigration and Cust

Global coronavirus cases exceeded 11 million on Friday (July 3), according to a Reuters tally, marking another milestone in the spread of the disease that has killed more than half a million people in

Nations who fail to use every mechanism available to combat the still-raging novel coronavirus will struggle to beat it, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday (July 1).

OPEC oil output hit the lowest in two decades in June as Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab members made larger cuts, a Reuters survey found, pushing group compliance in a supply reduction pact above 10

The European Union has excluded the United States from its initial “safe list” of countries from which the bloc will allow non-essential travel from Wednesday (June 30).

The outlook for the global labor market in the second half of 2020 is “highly uncertain” and the forecast recovery will not be enough for employment to return to pre-pandemic levels this year, the Int

The death toll from COVID-19 surpassed half a million people on Sunday (June 28), according to a Reuters tally, a grim milestone for the global pandemic that seems to be resurgent in some countries ev

Global coronavirus cases exceeded 10 million on Sunday (June 28) according to a Reuters tally, marking a major milestone in the spread of the respiratory disease that has so far killed almost half a m

A Danish court on Friday (June 26) sentenced a Norwegian citizen to seven years in jail after convicting him of spying for an Iranian intelligence service and complicity in a suspected plot to kill an

President Donald Trump’s administration is considering ending a long-standing system for congressional review of foreign weapons sales, congressional aides said on Thursday (June 25), a plan that woul

Russia has quit a United Nations arrangement that aimed to protect hospitals and humanitarian aid deliveries in Syria from being hit by the warring parties, according to a UN note to aid groups seen b

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, people already displaced by conflict, hunger and economic upheaval are especially vulnerable. Lauren Young and Michelle Nichols of Reuters spoke with David Miliband,

Big gaps between the number of male and female coronavirus cases in parts of Africa and the Middle East suggest that women may be struggling to access testing or care, an aid agency said on Wednesday

The lack of global leadership and unity to fight the coronavirus is a bigger threat that the outbreak itself, the head of the World Health Organization said on Monday (June 22), adding that politicisa

An Iranian ship was approaching the Venezuelan port of La Guaira on Sunday (June 21) with a cargo of food that will supply the South American nation’s first Iranian supermarket, according to Refinitiv

A shimmering ring of light flashed into view on Sunday (June 21) in parts of the eastern hemisphere as the moon drifted across the face of the sun in a rare eclipse on the longest day of the year.