UNITED NATIONS

There have been a spate of recent deadly attacks by Al Shabab militants along the Somali coast in the Lower Shabelle region this month.

Protesters in the African country have used the online networks to coordinate demonstrations across the capital city Bujumbura this week.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday praised the pope's efforts to make climate change a moral issue for Catholics.

Denmark previously held this distinction, according to the latest World Happiness Report.

Climate change and its threat to the economy "can no longer be denied," U.S. President Barack Obama says Saturday, in advance of his Earth Day speech.

President Pierre Nkurunziza is running for a third term, despite the constitution stating a president can only be elected twice.

Food and water have been scarce along the Omo River since work began on the Gilgel Gibe III project. The U.N. plans an assessment.

Some 80 percent of Somalis living in urban areas are currently unemployed and there are few legal options for them to make money.

A year after Boko Haram kidnapped the girls from Chibok, hundreds gathered in New York City to show solidarity for the victims.

Civilians lack security and "are struggling for the very basics -- water, food, fuel and medicine," the U.N. secretary-general said.

A new Unesco report finds that only 52 percent of countries achieved universal primary school enrolment target.

Greece announced on Thursday that it had given the order to repay a loan installment from the International Monetary Fund worth about $485 million.

As people from over 170 nations prepare to participate in Earth Hour 2015, here's everything you need to know about the annual event.

Thousands who crossed Egypt's western border to find work have been returning home by land or by flights from Tunisia.

The U.N. Human Rights Council launched its inquiry in September after the militant group seized large swathes of northern Iraq.

Questions have long swirled over whether Hammarskjöld's plane was shot down en route to Belgian Congo peace talks.

The photographs were smuggled out of Syria by a forensic photographer known as "Caesar."

The IMF's bailout program for Ukraine assumes Kiev will be able to get $15.4 billion from talks with its creditors, according to four sources familiar with the IMF's documents, said an exclusive Reuters report.

A political row in the world's youngest country triggered a conflict that has killed more than 10,000 people. Talks broke down Friday.

The bulldozing of one of Iraq’s most historical archaeological sites is the latest assault by ISIS against the region’s cultural heritage.

A UN report, issued ahead of International Women's Day, finds progress to correct gender inequality has been painfully slow.