FILE - People walk through a part of the Amazon River that shows signs of drought in Santa Sofia, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)
FILE - Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during a news conference at the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 19, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)
Overall, the WHO has reported 629 million cases and 6.5 million deaths linked to the pandemic.
The findings come in a paper issued Friday by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Assembly resolutions aren’t legally binding, but they do have clout in reflecting international opinion.
U.N. researchers say the likelihood of catastrophic wildfires globally could increase by more than 50% by the turn of the century.
The World Health Organization says a record 9.5 million cases of COVID-19 were tallied around the world over the last week.
The World Health Organization says the global risk from the omicron variant of the coronavirus is “very high” based on early evidence, and it …
The U.N. health agency warned that it's the activities around skiing, like transportation, that are risky for disease spread.
The U.N. secretary-general has made a sweeping call to end the global inequalities that sparked this year’s massive anti-racism protests and have been further exposed by the coronavirus pandemic.