It has been less than two years since phrases like “flatten the curve,” “contact tracing,” “social distancing,” and many others related to the Covid-19 pandemic entered the lexicon and became part of everyday communication.

Chile has long been something of a bellwether in Latin America.

It beggars belief, but it’s true: In the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, the member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) are still pondering whether, and by how much, they should increase their regular financial contributions to the organisation, whose work continues to save lives within and beyond their borders.

India has somehow emerged as the villain of last month’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), blamed for resisting cuts to coal consumption even as toxic air envelops its capital, New Delhi.

When applied to droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, floods, or other extreme weather events, the term “unprecedented” is getting old. In August, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report about the dire realities we face, a drought exacerbated by global warming already had been raging for years across much of southern Africa.

After India’s recent defeat by Pakistan at the T20 Cricket World Cup tournament, Indian bowler Mohammed Shami faced vicious trolling on social media.

In early 2021, the consensus forecast for Chinese GDP growth this year among 25 major global banks and other professional forecasters was 8.3 percent.

At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, analysts and pundits spun visions of how the crisis would reshape the global economy.

The Covid-19 pandemic has instilled many harsh lessons for the world. But the most important one is that infectious-disease outbreaks pose a risk not just to public health, but also to global security.

Not since World War II has the international community confronted as monumental a test as the intertwined crises of Covid-19 and climate change, and the profound social and economic inequalities they have exposed.

In 2015, 193 countries gathered at the United Nations and pledged to end global hunger by 2030 as part of the Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The “Pandora Papers,” a new investigation led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), has fuelled outrage around the world. Politicians, businesspeople,

After the United Nations General Assembly in New York last month, the UN is being asked to take on an outsize role in Afghanistan.

The geopolitical story of the last few years has featured Western democracies’ gradual awakening to the realities of an increasingly ambitious and authoritarian China.

Moves are afoot to replace or at least greatly weaken Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since 2019.

There is ultimately no way to stabilise the climate without addressing the fact that humans are emitting far too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, year after year. But cutting emissions is not the only response to the climate crisis, nor was it the one that scientists proposed over half a century ago in the first-ever government report on climate change.

With low-income countries in Africa and elsewhere still imploring rich countries to stop stockpiling millions of unused Covid-19 vaccines, there are still real doubts as to whether the United States and Europe will honour the promise made at this year’s G7 summit to vaccinate the world by the end of 2022.

When I visited my parents in Bogota last month, I witnessed how people in their neighbourhood went up and down the streets begging for help to survive.

Having created the BRIC acronym to capture the collective potential of Brazil, Russia, India, and China to influence the world economy, I now must ask a rather awkward question: When is that influence going to show up?

In South Africa, many people struggle to access sufficient quantities of healthy food. Because their diets are high in processed foods, refined starch, sugar, and fat, they face a double burden of malnutrition and obesity, or what is known as “hidden hunger.”