Reports of widespread damage are emerging from Mayotte after a 100-year cyclone ripped across the French archipelago Saturday, inflicting devastation that one resident likened to an atomic bomb, with hundreds and possibly even thousands of feared (...)
Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem has won this year's prestigious World Press Photo of the Year award with a depiction of loss in Gaza.
The heartrending photo depicts a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her young niece.
The photograph, taken (...)
Coral around the world is turning white and even dying as recent record ocean heat takes a devastating toll.
It has triggered the fourth global mass coral bleaching event, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (...)
Last month, Yale University issued a formal apology for the links its early leaders and benefactors had with slavery.
Since then, one name that has come under intense scrutiny in India is that of Elihu Yale, the man after whom the Ivy League (...)
It's what Malaysia Airlines told him when flight MH370 disappeared, with his son Yanlin on board.
"For years I have been asking what do you mean by 'lost contact'? It seems to me that if you lose contact with someone, you should be able to reconnect (...)
Germany is wrestling with a potentially explosive debate over whether to ban the far-right party Alternative for Germany, or AfD.
Germans have been shocked by revelations that senior figures attended a meeting where mass deportations were allegedly (...)
The UNESCO committee that protects so called Intangible Cultural Heritage met in Botswana this week to add new entries to the UN culture agency's list of world treasures, some of which must be "urgently" safeguarded.
Convened in the town of in (...)
For nearly 10 years, Jiang Hui has been searching for answers as to why the plane carrying his 70-year-old mother back from vacation in Malaysia vanished without trace.
Jiang's mother, Jiang Cuiyun, was one of 239 people on board Malaysia Airlines (...)
When Racha Mousdikoudine opens her kitchen faucet, she never knows what will happen.
"Maybe I won't get any water at all," she told CNN. "Maybe I'll get 30 minutes of water. Maybe the water will only come after hours of waiting."
For the last four (...)
JEDDAH — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced the arrival of 41 Saudi citizens and 171 nationals of friendly countries in Jeddah from Sudan.
The 212 evacuees have been transported on Monday from Port Sudan to Jeddah on His Majesty the (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, under the directives of its leadership, continues to make efforts to evacuate its citizens and nationals of brotherly and friendly countries from the Republic of Sudan to the Kingdom. This evening, 41 Saudi citizens and (...)
A team from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) met on Tuesday with Major General Elack Olivier Andriakaja, the Director General of the National Office of Risk and Disaster Management (BNGRC) of the Republic of Madagascar, (...)
Two soldiers have spent the night on a tree-top in flood-devastated Malawi to avoid being swept away by the powerful currents of a river below them.
The soldiers were on a mission to rescue flood survivors when their boat capsized, forcing them to (...)
At least 99 people were confirmed dead on Monday after Cyclone Freddy slammed into southern Malawi, the country's Commissioner for Disaster Management Affairs, Charles Kalemba, told CNN.
Most of the deaths happened in Blantyre, Malawi's commercial (...)
At least 190 people are now confirmed dead in Malawi after Tropical Storm Freddy ripped through southern Africa for the second time in a month.
Terrifying amounts of brown water have cascaded through neighborhoods, sweeping away homes. Malawi's (...)
Tropical Cyclone Freddy — which is threatening communities in Madagascar and Mozambique for a second time in as many weeks — could become the longest-lasting storm of its kind on record, the World Meteorological Office (WMO) said on Tuesday.
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Tropical cyclone Freddy, one of the longest-lasting systems in the southern hemisphere, slammed into Mozambique on Friday, as UN agencies helped residents with early action.
Accurate early warnings and early action on the ground helped limit loss of (...)
Heavy rainfall that followed the landfall of Tropical Storm Cheneso in Madagascar has killed 16 people and left 17 missing, the government's Office for Risk and Disaster Management said, according to Reuters.
The storm, which reached land on Jan. (...)
Heavy rainfall that followed the landfall of Tropical Storm Cheneso in Madagascar has killed 16 people and left 17 missing, Reuters reported quoting the government's Office for Risk and Disaster Management.
The storm, which reached land on Jan. 19, (...)
Most of the globe was drier than normal in 2021, with "cascading effects on economies, ecosystems and our daily lives", the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday.
According to the agency's first report on global water resources, (...)
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has announced the appointment of Abdoulaye Bathily of Senegal as his Special Representative for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL).
He succeeds Ján Kubiš of (...)
The creator of a women-only rapid intervention team who leads riot control activities inside the Central African Republic's biggest all-male high-security prison, was named the winner of a prestigious new UN award on Tuesday.
Téné Maïmouna (...)
The war in Ukraine has exacerbated steadily rising global food and energy prices, undermining economic stability across the world, warned in a UN report launched on Monday.
The ripple effects of the Ukraine war have triggered price surges, (...)
Advisor at the Royal Court Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Qattan met with Madagascar's Minister of Defense and Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Léon Rakotonirina at the capital, Antananarivo. Madagascar backs Saudi Arabia's bid to host World Expo 2030
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Advisor at the Royal Court of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Qattan today met with Minister of Defense and Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Madagascar Léon Rakotonirina at the capital, Antananarivo.
During the (...)
