By Lisa Schlein Geneva 14 June 2007 A U.N. expert says more than 850 million people around the world are starving. The expert, who has submitted a report on the state of world hunger to the U.N. Human Rights Council, says the international community...
By Catherine Maddux Washington 14 September 2006 Zimbabwe is in the midst of an unprecedented economic and political free fall. With skyrocketing inflation rates, declining agricultural production and repressive political and media policies, Zimbabw...
By Greg Flakus Houston 06 September 2006 Now that the Mexican electoral tribunal has declared Felipe Calderon president-elect, the path should be clear for him to begin forging a new government to tackle his country's many problems. But losing candi...
By Catherine Maddux Washington 22 May 2006 The implementation of the peace accord to end more than three years of war in Darfur, Sudan, appears to be stumbling, amid accusations of cease-fire violatio...
By Jessica Berman Washington 15 March 2006 A new study says universal access to AIDS drugs in developing countries could increase HIV infection rates if they are not accompanied by prevention measures...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 24 January 2006 Injured man is carried away from rubble on stretcher Efforts are continuing in Kenya to rescue survivors trapped inside a five-story building that collapsed M...
By Meredith Buel Washington 01 February 2006 An expert on global terrorism says there are now up to 40 groups around the world trying to imitate al-Qaida and virtually all of them are intent on attack...
By Luis Ramirez Beijing 19 January 2006 U.N. experts are warning that Africa is a likely new location for the emergence of bird flu, and they say the spread of the virus onto the African continent cou...
By Steve Herman Tokyo 12 January 2006 Experts at an international conference on avian influenza are being told their governments must do more to ensure early detection of the virus if a global human p...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 06 January 2006 People carry coffin of 15-year-old Fatma Kocyigit for burial in her hometown, Dogubayazit, Jan. 5. 2006 The World Health Organization, WHO, says a team of intern...