American funding for longterm Haiti reconstruction is held up in a bureaucratic logjam. Meanwhile, a UN official aptly describes the situation as "a humanitarian crisis the needs a development solution."
With a NATO summit coming up in Lisbon next month, this seems to be a good time to revive prospects that Macedonia may join the alliance. If only the Greeks would let them.
In honor of World Statistics Day, here is master story-teller Hans Rosling showing how the world is becoming a safer place for newborns. From TedxChange.
Severe flooding hits Benin, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria. Welcome to the next big humanitarian crisis. But after Hait and Pakistan, will there be enough money for emergency relief for the region?
One of the biggest storms in recent history pounded the Philippines today and is en route to southern China. The United States is reportedly diverting military assets to the Philippines to help with humanitarian assistance and recovery efforts.
Ban has a J'accuse! moment at the European Parliament in which he takes on the growing tide of anti-Muslim bigotry on the continent. "Europe's darkest chapters have been written in language such as this," he says.
A new report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime sheds some light into the market economics that feed the $3 billion trafficking in persons industry.
David Frum suggests that having Portugal voted to the Security Council as opposed to Canada is somehow a failure of US diplomacy. This is absurd. He should blame Canada
