Philippine government agrees new truce with Maoist-led rebels
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has agreed to a new cease-fire with Maoist-led guerrillas, who declared a truce several hours before, ahead of fresh peace talks in Norway next week, a senior administration official said on Saturday. The cease-fire will come into effect from Sunday morning. Duterte ...
Times may seem bad, but 2016 isn't the new 1936
Unlike in the 1930s, the world is not on the brink of any great and awful calamity.
Europe remains home to more than half the world's nuclear weapons, and a growing number of experts believe that the risk of a third major war there is increasing.
Why the World Humanitarian Summit is vital
At a time when there have never been so many displaced persons since World War II, the international community must strive to ensure that conduct in conflicts complies with international humanitarian law.
The world could use more nonintervention
The principle of nonintervention may be extremely difficult to enforce in today's complex world, but its principles should be revived again.
Pope Francis took three families of Syrian refugees back to Rome on Saturday after visiting the frontline of Europe's migrant crisis at a camp in Greece where migrants wept at his feet, kissed his hand and begged for help. At a sprawling fenced complex on ...
Syrian expat hopes to educate Japan about his nation's plight
Assi Alghazali's "quiet but peaceful life" came to an end suddenly with the outbreak of civil war in Syria. Alghazali, 24, fled from his war-torn country to Saudi Arabia, and later came to Japan and got married. Now he is working to make Japanese aware of ...
In Yemen, a humanitarian pause urgently needed
A humanitarian pause is badly needed in war-torn Yemen, where a majority of the population in urgent need of medical care.
After decades of relative peace, the death toll from armed conflicts is rising once again. While countries rarely go to war with each other, a constellation of other kinds of conflicts rages on.
The premier of an Australian state offered on Saturday to look after a group of asylum seekers facing repatriation to a camp on a remote Pacific island, adding to opposition to the federal government's policy of offshore detention. Daniel Andrews, premier of Victoria state, called ...
Germany's Merkel says refugees must return home once war over
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday tried to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees, insisting that asylum seekers from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended. Merkel, despite appearing increasingly isolated over her policy, has ...
Iran's foreign minister has complained to the United Nations about Saudi Arabia's "provocations" towards Tehran, as a diplomatic crisis between the region's two major powers entered its second week. In a letter to the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon published by Iranian news agencies on Saturday, ...
