Ratko Mladić has died in prison. But how many other war criminals were actually convicted, from those wars in the Balkans?

The Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal.

Many thousands of boys and men in Lesotho take up the vital profession of herding but have to give up their education. A small network of schools on a shoestring budget is teaching them the ABCs.

Ratko Mladić has died in prison. But how many other war criminals were actually convicted, from those wars in the Balkans?

Among the 10 killed overnight are children, including a two-month old infant.

Officials say rescuers in Nepal have pulled two workers alive from a tunnel Friday during an ongoing operation. The rescues come nine days after the Aug. 26 floods.

The amendment to block military assistance failed, but partisan split cemented the increasingly polarized view of the U.S. ally.

Bosnian ​Serb general ‌Ratko Mladic, who ​was serving ​a life sentence ⁠for ​genocide in ​the bloody 1992-95 war ​in ​Bosnia, has died ‌in ⁠the United Nations detention centre ​in ​The ⁠Hague, Belgrade's ​Informer ​TV ⁠reported on Thursday.

UNITED NATIONS, August 17 (IPS) - Women-led and women’s rights organizations (WLOs) in humanitarian settings are collapsing amidst a complicated predicament in which needs are surging and international support is dwindling.

Investigation by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty and Legal Agenda shows Israel deliberately attacked Amal Khalil and colleague Zeinab Faraj knowing they were civilians An Israeli strike that killed Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil and injured her colleague Zeinab Faraj in April was a war crime, three rights organisations said on Thursday. Investigations from Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International and Legal Agenda showed that Israel deliberately and directly attacked Khalil and Faraj, with apparent knowledge that they were civilians. The organisations called for the attacks to be investigated as war crimes, while HRW called for states to halt arm sales to Israel and put targeted sanctions on Israeli officials responsible for ongoing crimes. Continue reading...

Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday.

The United Nations General Assembly took a crucial step on June 30, 2026, towards easing the world body’s deepening liquidity crisis by amending a longstanding rule that would have required it to refu...

In this time of tight budgets, an overlooked source of donor funding, are private foundations.

The ​death toll ‌in Venezuela's ​twin ​earthquakes last week ⁠has ​risen to ​2,645, the nation's ​information ​ministry said on ‌Friday.

President says ‘we always hold onto hope’ as discovery of earthquake survivors spurs fresh search efforts despite dwindling chances of survival * Mortuary in Caracas ‘overwhelmed’ as Venezuela struggles to respond after earthquakes A man and his teenage son were found alive under the rubble in Venezuela on Sunday, in a town about 40km north of the capital Caracas, AFP journalists reported, as the death toll from last week’s twin earthquakes passed 1,450. The discovery of survivors in Caraballeda was made by French and American rescue teams nearly four days after back-to-back quakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 struck, completely destroying nearly 200 buildings in the area. Continue reading...

In this time of tight budgets, an overlooked source of donor funding, are private foundations.

View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.

Three brothers say their mother and father died after losing access to their HIV medications. Now the boys are figuring out how to navigate life.

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office on Friday ruled a Haitian woman’s hypothermia death in March a homicide, pointing to the circumstances...

TNI mengakui empat anggotanya terlibat kasus penyiraman air keras terhadap aktivis KontraS, Andrie Yunus. Keempat prajurit itu telah ditahan di Pomdam Jaya. TNI mengklaim belum mengetahui motifnya. Pe...

The agency is facing pressure to improve medical care in its facilities after reporting the deaths of 18 detainees in the first five months of this year.

Ten years after United Nations Security Council Resolution 2286 was adopted to protect health care in armed conflict, attacks on hospitals and healthcare workers continue.

Nicholas Enrich’s new memoir details the human toll of the agency’s dismantling.

At least 80 deaths reported in Congo’s Ituri province while Uganda reports spread from travellers from the DRC The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a “public health emergency of international concern”. The WHO on Sunday said the outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo virus, does not meet the criteria of a pandemic emergency. Continue reading...

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

Gaza is facing an “environmental and biological apocalypse” under Israeli bombardment and blockade, reports Palestinian aid worker Eyad Amawi of the Gaza Relief Committee. Israel’s destruction of infr...