ROME - Almost 70.8 million people were forcibly displaced last year, a 2.3-million increase compared to 2017, according to a report released in Rome on Wednesday by the United Nations Refugee Agency, or UNHCR.
The 34th summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, is expected to adopt policies promoting sustainable development, pushing the region to go beyond the economic gains it has reaped in the past few years, analysts say.
Kenya is fast tracking a raft of new export strategies to boost growth and bridge the yawning trade gap. This followed a 1.4 percent increase in the trade deficit from $11.3 billion in 2017 to $11.5 billion in 2018.
The head of a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit organization that aims to prevent infant crib deaths argued that US tariffs on Chinese products are putting US infants at risk because they raise the price of products for very young children.
The five remaining candidates in the Conservative leadership race to be the United Kingdom's next prime minister set out their differing approaches to Brexit in a live televised debate on Tuesday evening, ahead of a third ballot due to be held on Wednesday.
TOKYO - A powerful earthquake jolted northwestern Japan late on Tuesday, causing minor injuries to at least 26 people and a brief evacuation of coastal homes until the risk of a tsunami passed.
Boeing has announced the sale of 200 737 Max jets to International Airlines Group, ending a wave of cancellations and a sales drought following the worldwide grounding in March of the aircraft after two fatal crashes.
COPENHAGEN - Scientists said 2019 could be another horrible year for the Arctic with record temperatures already registered in Greenland - a giant melting icicle that threatens to submerge the world's coastal areas one day.
A lose-lose strategy by which the United States thinks it can inflict more economic damage on China than on itself is a very "big miscalculation" and will ultimately increase the "pain" on the people in the United States, according to John Ross, a British academic and senior fellow with the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China.
Humankind's numbers may reach 9.7 billion by 2050 and India is poised to overtake China as the world's most populous nation around 2027, according to a new United Nations report.
While the world adjusts to the new world order in global trade, tourism is booming and China is in the driver's seat.
No country will come out unscathed by the ongoing trade tensions between the United States and China, said Raphael Tuju, secretary-general of Kenya's ruling Jubilee party.
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