Oxfam calls for $160 billion package to cancel debt and fund Coronavirus emergency

Oxfam today called for a package of nearly $160 billion in immediate debt cancellation and aid to fund a global emergency and public health...

WHO chief warns against COVID-19 ‘vaccine nationalism’, urges support for fair access

Warning against “vaccine nationalism” in the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has again underlined the importance of global solidarity...

World Health Authority calls for end to wet markets

The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners have called for countries to suspend sales of live wild mammals in traditional food markets, also known...

LIVE-Ukraine crisis latest

A local school was damaged and a local community center destroyed after Russia attacks a city of Merefa in Kharkiv Oblast.  Merefa, home to 21,500...

Johnson-High energy costs the price we have to pay to support Ukraine

Boris Johnson on a visit to Kyiv said western countries must ‘endure’ higher energy bills and food prices as a result of the war...

Earth is ‘really quite sick now’ and in danger zone in nearly all ecological...

Humans are taking colossal risks with the future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth, a new Earth Commission study published today in...

Manchester Charity In Syria: “The Siege Of Eastern Ghouta Is Worse Than Aleppo”

Human Appeal, a Greater Manchester-based humanitarian aid charity, have called the current siege in Easter Ghouta “worse than Aleppo” – the bloody siege which...

World Bank confirms deepest recession since World War Two

The COVID-19 pandemic will shrink the global economy by 5.2 per cent this year, representing the deepest recession since World War Two, and triggering...

Future pandemics will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, do more damage to the...

Future pandemics will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, do more damage to the world economy and kill more people than COVID-19 unless there...

Grave violations against children in conflict ‘alarmingly high’, latest UN report reveals

More than 19,300 boys and girls affected by war last year were victims of grave violations such as recruitment or rape, and the COVID-19...