Today in history: The United Nations Charter is signed in 1945
UN has served as a widely respected moral voice for refugees, the environment, women's rights, labor, agricultural development, disaster relief, and cultural preservation.
UN agency praises Cuba’s food security program
Under-nutrition afflicts fewer than five percent of Cubans. And Cuba has helped reduce the number of the world's hungry by half as of 2015.
Changing captains in Germany’s Left Party
The Left Party is the only opposition force with any real clout in Germany, so a gathering with representatives of its 60,000 members was important enough.
A hot weekend and a chilly G7 summit
Top leaders of seven nations at the G7 Summit discuss "the global economy as well as... foreign, security and development policy."
Enforcement not the answer to Europe’s immigration problems
International law guarantees the right to seek asylum; seizing boats and mass detentions are violations of this right.
TPP’s evil twin advances in European Parliament
The legislative arm of the European Union approved a position statement backing, with modifications, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
