Global Citizen’s Hugh Evans hoping music can mobilize world
Hugh Evans started his fight against extreme poverty by mobilizing his friends when he was growing up in Australia.
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UN agency: Innovation continued even as coronavirus emerged
GENEVA — The U.N.'s intellectual property agency said Monday that innovation marched forward last year despite the impact of the coronavirus outbreak. Technology, pharmaceuticals...
UN to world leaders: To curtail warming, you must do more
Pressure keeps building on increasingly anxious world leaders to ratchet up efforts to fight climate change. There's more of it coming this week in...
AP Interview: UN chief warns China, US to avoid new Cold War
UNITED NATIONS — Warning of a potential new Cold War, the head of the United Nations implored China and the United States to repair...
Parents laud Chinese rules aimed at kids’ ‘unhealthy’ gaming
Li Zhanguo’s two children, aged eight and four, don't have their own smartphones, but like millions of other Chinese children, they are no strangers...
UK’s Johnson to urge climate action over 4-day trip to US
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was travelling to the United States on Sunday with senior Cabinet officials to urge world leaders attending...
Indonesia retrieves most-wanted militant’s body from jungle
PALU, Indonesia — The bodies of Indonesia’s most wanted militant with ties to the Islamic State group and a follower, who were killed in...
France’s Macron to talk to Biden amid crisis over submarines
PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron will speak in the coming days with President Joe Biden in what will be their first contact since a...
Two Afghans who trekked to France have lessons for evacuees
PARIS — One slept on the streets of Paris, the other in a massive makeshift migrant camp in northern France.
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In Russian Far East city, discontent smolders amid election
KHABAROVSK, Russia — The handful of demonstrators gathering each evening in Khabarovsk are a shadow of the masses who took part in an unusually...