If the United Nations was created from the ashes of World War II, what will be born from the global crisis of COVID-19? Many world leaders at this week’s virtual UN summit hope it will be a vaccine made available and affordable to all countries, rich and poor. But with the US, China and...

An estimated 14.6 million new internal displacements have been recorded across 127 countries and territories in first half of 2020, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said Wednesday. “The staggering figures recorded in the first six months of the year are testament to the...

The European Union's executive proposed Wednesday overhauling the bloc's broken migration and asylum rules, seeking to end years of feuds and bitterness over the many people fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East and Africa. The most contentious element would impose a legal...

Elie Hasrouty, who lost his father to the August 4 Beirut port blast, is one of at least 1,228 grieving Lebanese preparing to file a lawsuit against the state. The young computer engineer said going to court won't bring his father back, but it could go some way towards preventing similar...