Pakistani officials say the executive board of the International Fund has approved a new $7 billion loan for the country.

Nikki Haley has won the District of Columbia’s Republican primary.

Wednesday will be an important time for four Republican candidates when the fourth debate of the election cycle takes place in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

A former president of Paraguay who has been investigated for his alleged participation in money laundering operations has been included in a U.S. corruption list.

Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has sent a letter to the United Nations formally requesting that his country be referred to as “Türkiye.”.

The former chief prosecutor of U.N. war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia has called for an international arrest warrant to be issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

At the World Wildlife Conference in Panama later this year, discussions are expected to center around African wildlife such as elephants, big cats and rosewood trees.

Ukraine has launched a case against Russia at the United Nations’ highest court accusing Moscow of planning genocide and asking for the court to intervene to halt the invasion and order Russia to pay reparations.

Amid an outcry over the U.S. treatment of Haitian asylum-seekers, the beleaguered island country’s embattled prime minister is pointedly saying that inequalities drive migration.

Lebanon’s president is asking the international community for assistance to help the country recover from one of the worst financial crises the world has seen in modern history.

President Joe Biden delivered remarks before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday morning for the first time in his presidency.

The foreign ministries of Germany, France and Britain have expressed “grave concern” over the latest report by the UN’s nuclear watchdog that said Iran continues to produce uranium metal, which can be used in the production of a nuclear bomb.

A United Nations report says last year saw a “dramatic worsening” of world hunger, much of that likely linked to the pandemic.

The U.N. human rights chief is urging countries worldwide to do more to help end discrimination, violence and systemic racism against people of African descent and “make amends” to them — including through reparations.

___5:50 p.m.British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell the U.N. General Assembly that the coronavirus pandemic has frayed the bonds between nations and will urge world leaders to unite against the “common foe” of COVID-19. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi also used his U.N. speech this week to describe the dam, Africa’s largest, as an existential threat. Khan has frequently criticized the decision by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in August 2019 to strip Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood, scrap its separate constitution and remove inherited protections on land and jobs. The United Kingdom is a founding nation of the United Nations and a member of the Security Council, and the country has been a global diplomatic juggernaut for centuries. Michel’s ire was raised when British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would contemplate breaking an agreement he signed with the EU.

LONDON The World Health Organizations Europe office said it has begun discussions with Russia to try to obtain more information about the experimental COVID-19 vaccine the country recently approved. Last week, Russia became the first country in the world to license a coronavirus vaccine when President Vladimir Putin announced its approval. Russian officials claimed the vaccine would provide lasting immunity to COVID-19 but offered no proof. This concern that we have around safety and efficacy is not specifically for the Russia vaccine, its for all of the vaccines under development, said Smallwood. Two other potential COVID-19 vaccine candidates have already started such studies in the U.S. and elsewhere, and will require about 30,000 people to receive the immunization and be tracked afterward.

Venezuela has become the latest accused human rights abuser to win a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council. It also presented evidence of human rights violations including torture and extrajudicial killings by Venezuelan security forces. The UN Human Rights CouncilThe UN's 47-nation human rights group gets to point the finger at countries for their human rights violations. And Human Rights Watch, deputy director for global advocacy, Philippe Bolopion said that Venezuela's election "betrays the fundamental principles (the UN) set out when it created the Human Rights Council." On Thursday, US Ambassador Craft said the Venezuela's ascent to the council "provides ironclad proof that the Human Rights Council is broken and reinforces why the United States withdrew."

The Houthis have sent dozens of drones and short-range ballistic missiles against Saudi Arabia in the past two years. A second source in the Gulf region told CNN that while there was no proof yet, the indications were that the attack originated in southern Iraq. Earlier this year, some regional analysts assessed that a drone attack on a pumping station at Afif in northern Saudi Arabia originated in Iraq. The Iraqi government Sunday issued a statement rejecting reports "about its land being used to attack Saudi oil facilities." But Saudi Arabia is normally the organization's "swing producer" with the ability to reduce or increase the flow as required.

KABUL, Afghanistan - More civilians in Afghanistan were killed by Afghan and NATO forces than by the Taliban and other militant groups in the first half of 2019, a UN mission to the country said Tuesday. The report found that of the 1,366 killed, 717 were killed by Afghan and NATO-led forces -- a 31 per cent increase from the corresponding period in 2018. By comparison, 531 people were killed by the Taliban, ISIS and other militant groups during the same six months. The three leading causes of civilian casualties were ground engagements (33%), improvised explosive device attacks (28%) and aerial operations (14%), according to the UN. Earlier in July, a joint declaration by participants to the Intra-Afghan Dialogue, held in Doha, called for all parties to reduce civilian casualties to zero.

About 100 million people across India are on the front lines of a nationwide water crisis. "After 1990, cities in India have grown very rapidly," said Samrat Basak, director of the World Resource Institution India's Urban Water Program. They also have limited water conservation infrastructure -- rainwater harvesting systems, water reuse and recycling, and waste water treatment. "Climate change will have devastating consequences for people in poverty," the UN human rights report said. In the face of desperation, civil rights, democracy and the rule of law are also at danger, the UN human rights report added.

A new report published on Tuesday estimated that more than 120 million people could slip into poverty within the next decade because of climate change. Alston said the difference between how climate change affects the wealthy and the poor is already apparent. Researchers from Stanford University have previously warned that climate change is making poor countries poorer, widening global inequality between nations. But extreme weather events fueled by climate change are also deepening disparities within countries. The livelihoods of the world's poorest are most exposed to climate change disasters, because poverty makes it impossible to escape, says the research.