The United States Wednesday hit back at a UN women's rights panel that said some US states limited access to abortions during the COVID-19 pandemic, rejecting its interference and the notion of "an assumed right to abortion." "The United States is disappointed by and categorically rejects...

Russian mass media reported that scientists of the Institute of physical Culture History of the Russian Academy of Sciences ended work with a three-dimensional model of the Syrian city of Palmyra, listed on UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites, claiming that this is “a prelude to the...

Ahmed Mansour and his colleagues worked eight months without pay in a health center in a Yemeni displacement camp out of concern for their patients. But this month they closed its doors. "Enough is enough now, we can't go on," said administrative worker Mansour, who financially supports his...

The coronavirus is exposing an uncomfortable inequality in the billion-dollar system that delivers life-saving aid for countries in crisis: Most money that flows from the US and other donors goes to international aid groups instead of local ones. Now local aid workers are exposed on the...