The 75th session of the UN General Assembly was on Tuesday declared open by new General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir,

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called on the international community to get united and find a vaccine that

Less than 10 percent of globally reported COVID-19 cases and less than 0.2 percent of deaths have been people under

The UN humanitarian agency said on Monday that an estimated 500,000 people have been affected by flooding across South Sudan,

The Jordanian government on Monday announced its decision to suspend most of schools and close coffee shops, restaurants and mosques

At least 10 pupils have been killed and seven others injured after a fire burnt a dormitory to ashes at

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga was elected on Monday as the new president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party

Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt has said there is "genuine cause for hope and optimism" that a coronavirus vaccine will

At least nine people died and 22 went missing in two separate landslides at three settlements in Barhabise Municipality of

There have been at least 19 people killed in the past month, 3.2 million acres (about 12,950 square km) burned,