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More than 37.8 million people across the Greater Horn of Africa face or are projected to face acute food insecurity. The crisis is not a simple food shortage: drought, conflict, displacement, disease and collapsing humanitarian coverage are creating a reinforcing public-health emergency.
Global exposure to fine-particle pollution improved before 2020 and then largely stopped falling. The new data reveal a severe income divide and show why clean air policy must connect transport, power, industry, agriculture and household energy rather than treating pollution as a temporary urban alert.
The Sustainable Development Goals have expanded access to water, electricity, health care and connectivity for billions, but current progress remains too slow to deliver the 2030 agenda. The central challenge is no longer identifying successful interventions; it is financing and scaling them amid conflict, debt and declining aid.
The World Health Organization projects that annual cancer diagnoses will approach 35 million by 2050. Population ageing explains much of the increase, but survival will depend just as heavily on whether countries can finance prevention, diagnosis and treatment as part of universal health coverage.
The United Nations has convened its first dedicated global dialogue on AI governance, giving every government and relevant stakeholders a formal place in the same process. Its value will depend on whether broad participation can produce evidence-based cooperation rather than another layer of non-binding discussion.
When diplomatic frameworks between major powers fracture, they rarely collapse all at once. They erode gradually, through competing demands,...
Oil Surge to $127 as Iran War Sends Central Banks Into Emergency Rate Hike Path From Fed to ECB
Unlike 2022, Central Banks to Diverge if Energy Shock Deepens: McGeever
Russia Sanctions Dispute Crisis: 3 Risks in 2026?
The United States, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Russia and Japan are struggling to control rising geopolitical tensions as wars, trade conflicts and...
China's industrial strategy now touches almost every major sector in the economy and their underlying supply chains. These state interventions are...
Iran Says Response to U.S. Proposal Focuses on Ending Conflict and Gulf Security Iran says its response to a recent proposal from the United States is...
U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed diminishing patience with Iran, while Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed that the Strait of Hormuz should be...
Putin to Visit China Next Week for Talks With Xi Jinping Vladimir Putin is reportedly set to visit China next week for high-level talks with Xi Jinping,...
Nearly a decade after his first-term visit, Trump returns to Beijing amid tensions over tariffs, Taiwan and tech rivalry.
According to reports published by the Tehran Times, Iran submitted the proposal through Pakistani intermediaries earlier this month as a counteroffer...