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U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk on Thursday urged countries with influence in Africa to help end the fighting in Sudan and said that both warring sides had “trampled” international humanitarian law. “I take this opportunity to urge all States with

Calgary unveiled a new special ambassador Wednesday as the city inches closer to hosting the World Petroleum Congress in September. Rocky, a large red moose, made an appearance in the municipal building atrium as Mayor Jyoti Gondek and WPC president and

Deutsche Bank announced today that it will end all investments in fossil fuels by the end of this year, a move that has been hailed as a major step forward in the fight against climate change. “We are proud to announce

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Sunday that the United States will increase investment in Africa and help spur economic growth as she began a week long tour of the continent aimed at offering a counter to the influence of

he construction of 53,830 housing units has started in Türkiye’s earthquake zone, with the foundations laid for 22,467 so far, Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Minister Murat Kurum noted Sunday. In a message published on his official social media account, Kurum

Inspectors from the United Nations announced that they found missing uranium in southern Libya. The International Atomic Energy Agency said earlier this month that some 2.5 tons of natural uranium stored at a site in the southern town of Sabha had gone

At least 29 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died when their boat sank off the coast of Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, sources said Sunday, the latest migrant boat disaster off Tunisia. In the last four days,

One of the largest mining gathering in the world, the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention, just ended, attracting tens of thousands of geologists, engineers and investors to downtown Toronto. After several years of interruptions related to the pandemic in