China's growing global influence poses a serious threat to international human rights, according to a new report, which suggests the UNHRC is failing to counter such risks.
The energy transition is off track to prevent the worst impact of the climate emergency, according to the head of the International Renewable Energy Agency.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday agreed to suspend a planned judiciary reform until the next parliament session after nationwide protests paralyzed the country.
NATO condemned Russia's "dangerous and irresponsible" nuclear rhetoric Sunday after President Vladimir Putin shared plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.
The EU says it is hoping to provide more clarity to consumers so that when a product is sold as green, they can trust that it is environmentally friendly.
Germany could be weeks away from introducing a bill to legalize cannabis — a move that would make it the world’s largest regulated national market for the drug.
Swiss regulator FINMA on Thursday defended its decision to instruct Credit Suisse to write down its AT1 bonds — a controversial part of the lender's emergency sale to UBS.
Switzerland has approved plans to legalize the sale and consumption of cannabis in Zurich in a trial designed to assess the economic and social benefits of regulating the drug.
The latest report from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change provides world leaders with a gold-standard summation of modern climate science.
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