GENEVA – The Vatican revealed Tuesday that over the past decade, it has defrocked 848 priests who raped or molested children and sanctioned another 2,572...
The world’s five nuclear powers pledged Tuesday not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against five Central Asian nations that have banned nuclear...
(Wikipedia photo) The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture organization is warning banana growers that a fungal disease is spreading through crops from Asia to Africa...
The Philippine government will not be bullied. This message comes across loud and clear, as officials yesterday announced the decision to pursue the case made with...
After two weeks of heated debate, liberal and conservative countries early Saturday approved a U.N. document to promote equality for women that reaffirms the sexual...
Russia and the United States exchanged threats Wednesday at a tense U.N. Security Council meeting over the Ukraine crisis, with Moscow’s envoy warning that the U.S....
The civil war in South Sudan has left people so hungry and desperate for relief that they are even fleeing across the border into Darfur, a...
Ukraine’s fugitive president requested Russian soldiers in the strategic Crimea region “to establish legitimacy, peace, law and order,” Russia’s U.N. ambassador said Monday, contradicting the...
The United Nations says in its first report on human rights abuses during the conflict in South Sudan that civilians bore the brunt of ethnic violence...