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TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s birth rate fell to a new low for the eighth year in a row in 2023, according to health ministry data released Wednesday. A government official described the situation as critical and urged authorities to do everything they could to reverse the trend. The data underlines Japan’s long-standing problems of a […]

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The horrors of the Second World War are being forgotten, raising the risk of a new global conflict, Pope Francis said on Wednesday in comments marking the 80th anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings. The Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France was a turning point in World War II, and Francis said

“I leave this job feeling unfulfilled because the world is a worse place now than when I joined in 2021,” Martin Griffiths said in his final briefing to journalists as UN Humanitarian and Emergency Response Coordinator. He said the international community does not resolve conflicts through dialogue, as proposed in the US almost 80 years

Three rusty water carts stand on the edge of Kibbutz Malkiya, on Israel’s border with Lebanon; They’re a little bigger than a family car and look like something out of an old cartoon. A collection of industrial leaf blowers are stacked nearby. “This is all we have,” resident Dean Sweetland explained. “We only have these

Humanitarians said “security and humanitarian access conditions” have been further reduced since May due to increased violence in northern and southern Gaza, especially in Rafah, where Israeli forces continued their bombing and military offensive. “Despite the presence of a system to inform and coordinate humanitarian movements, obstacles, delays and denials of missions often continue to

In a post marking Wednesday World Environment DayAntónio Guterres emphasizes this countries “must deliver” on all their commitments to restore degraded ecosystems and degraded land, and so on Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Frameworkthe global agreement to protect biodiversity. “They must use their new national climate action plans to explain how they will stop and reverse deforestation by

A new report from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) confirmed that every year hundreds of thousands of people risk their lives to migrate from sub-Saharan Africa without access to immediate assistance, shelter or information about the dangers they may face, including from human traffickers – even though the location of major movement centers is known.

A suspected terrorist from Germany’s far-right Reichsburgers, a domestic terrorist group, made a wide-ranging confession before the Düsseldorf High Court on Wednesday. The suspect has expressly admitted that he is a member of a terrorist organization and participated in plans to commit high treason, he said in statements from his lawyer. “I would like to

In commemorative comments the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of AggressionDenise Brown also noted that boys and girls in frontline regions have had to spend the equivalent of €2.50 seven months underground in bomb shelters due to brutal attacks. “I won’t stop repeating that the entire international community should never accept what is happening