United Nations, United States A year after a historic treaty to protect the high seas was opened to signatures, it has now received 13 ratifications — leaving it still far from coming into force. The treaty, which took 15 years of tough negotiating to be approved, aims to protect vital marine ecosystems that are threatened by...
Mexico City, Mexico Hurricane John, which made landfall twice on Mexico’s Pacific coast, has now left eight people dead, all of them in southern Guerrero state, home to the beachside city of Acapulco, authorities said Saturday. John first slammed into the shore earlier this week as a Category 3 hurricane, churning along the coast for several...
Acapulco, Mexico Residents of Mexico’s beachside city of Acapulco were reeling Friday after a hurricane left at least five people dead and neighborhoods underwater in a region still recovering from a devastating storm last October. Clutching belongings, families waded down streets turned into muddy rivers, nearly a year after Hurricane Otis left a trail of destruction...
New York, United States US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday questioned China’s sincerity in seeking peace in Ukraine as he directly pressed his counterpart over exports that boost Russia’s military. Blinken met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the latest talks as the two powers look to...
United Nations, United States France on Wednesday unveiled a proposal for a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon in UN diplomacy with the United States as the death toll mounted in deadly strikes by Israel against Hezbollah. Shortly after talks at the United Nations between Presidents Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron, France outlined the proposal at an emergency...
United Nations, United States World leaders lined up at the United Nations on Tuesday to call on Israel to refrain from a full-scale war in Lebanon, with the organization’s chief warning the situation was on the “brink.” The UN General Assembly, the high point of the international diplomatic calendar, comes after Lebanese authorities said Israeli strikes...
Cairo, Egypt Israel’s military campaign to eradicate Hamas in retaliation for the October 7 attack has weakened it by killing several of its leaders and thousands of fighters, and by reducing swaths of the territory it rules to rubble. But the Palestinian militant group has not been crushed outright, and a year on from its unprecedented...
United Nations, United States Senior United Nations officials warned on Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of lives are at risk in the besieged Sudanese town of El-Fasher, amid signs that the fighting could soon escalate. El-Fasher is one of five state capitals in Sudan’s western Darfur region and the only one not in the hands of the...
Washington, United States US lawmakers on Wednesday vowed to keep up pressure to free Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, whose son warned that time was running out. Lai, the founder of the now-shuttered popular Chinese-language tabloid Apple Daily which supported mass pro-democracy protests, was detained in 2020 and is standing trial on charges including sedition...
United Nations, United States A United Nations official returning from Sudan described on Friday how women and girls fleeing the civil war there had been “stripped bare of their basic necessities,” struggling for food, water and safety. “We all know that war is ugly, but this is one of the ugliest situations that I have ever...