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State Department to cut thousands of staff, shutter more than 100 foreign offices in drastic overhaul
A 15% cut to domestic staff will result in more than 2,000 employees losing their jobs -- including around 700 at the ...
World Bank urged to reduce equity-to-loan ratio to free up funds for poor countries
Given big cuts in development aid by Europe and the United States, think tanks and other groups are urging the World Bank to ...
UN to review the impact of its agency helping Palestinian refugees in Gaza and elsewhere
The United Nations chief has appointed a British human rights activist to carry out a strategic review of the U.N. agency ...
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World Nations Agree To Historic First Global Pandemic Treaty – Without The US
It's taken three years to agree a legally binding global defense against pandemics, but now, without US participation, WHO ...
Countries Agree on Treaty Aimed at Preventing Global Health Crises
The World Health Organization finally reached a compromise on a pandemic treaty after three years of talks. The United States ...
At United Nations, China to blast US for bullying, trade war
China will next week convene an informal United Nations Security Council meeting to accuse the United States of bullying and ...
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To Survive Its Existential Crisis, the U.N. Must Learn From the Past
The U.N. system will likely be able to ride out its current existential crisis, but only if its members agree on what that ...
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UNAIDS reacts to WHO Member States reaching Pandemic Agreement consensus
Delegates at the World Health Organization (WHO) Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) have today reached a consensus on ...