“The world wants and indeed needs a plastic conventional treaty because the crisis is getting out of hand – and people are frankly outraged,” said Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director of the UN ...

Defence and Foreign Ministers from the United Kingdom and Australia have signed a new 50-year military pact designed to underpin Australia’s acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines.

Amid rising strategic competition, the pursuit of a security treaty and a long-standing shared history have made Australia the security partner of choice for Papua New Guinea. PNG formally remains a ...

GENEVA (5 August 2025) - The Special Rapporteur on torture, Alice Jill Edwards, has welcomed the adoption by the European Union on 31 July of revised lists that prohibit and control the use and export ...

By Edward Carver This is Part 1 in a short series on efforts to decarbonize the global shipping industry. Since the Paris ...

On a two-day visit to Gujarat to promote tourism in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah called for restoring full statehood to the Union Territory and pressed for the transfer of security ...

In a move that will draw the ire of Beijing, Britain has sent one of its carrier groups to dock in Australia for the first ...

Somewhere in Solomon Islands lies a security agreement with China that has never been made public, despite assurances from ...

The talks in Geneva may be the world’s last chance to agree a strong treaty to tackle plastic pollution, scientists warn.

On July 18, Ukraine formally informed the United Nations that it has suspended its operation of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, the landmark international treaty prohibiting antipersonnel landmines. The ...

A leading expert in the health impacts of plastic pollution and microplastics is calling on the UN to end the use of toxic chemicals in all plastics, cap and reduce plastic production and argues ...