Starting this October, visitors to the famed Palais des Nations, home of the United Nations Office of Geneva (UNOG), could see a new landmark titled "Rebirth," a sculpture composed of 193 stones, with each one representing a UN member state.
While there has been some speculation recently over Russia's position on expansion of UN Security Council permanent membership, India said on Tuesday it doesn't doubt Moscow's commitment to supporting India's bid for the same.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the global political landscape in 2015 was shaped by two civil conflicts in two not-too-big countries -- Ukraine in East Europe and Syria in the Middle East.
Australia's farming produce is set to become more competitive after the World Trade Organisation (WTO) agrees to end 15 billion U.S. dollars in agriculture export subsidies at the weekend.
The world has been overshadowed by terrorist threats as never before this year as various terror groups and their loyalists made headlines everywhere, especially in Paris and across the Atlantic in France's strong anti-terror ally, the United States.
The People's Daily on Wednesday carried the third of a series of commentaries on the Philippines' South China Sea arbitration farce. Following is a translated version of the full text:
The year 2015 has seen the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World World II, as exodus of migrants from war-torn Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria have been flocking to the continent.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and his visiting Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on Tuesday said their countries would jointly build a gas interconnector and a high-speed rail line.
After years and years of failed negotiations, the fate of securing a landmark global agreement to curb climate change has boiled down to a revised draft of 27 pages released Thursday at the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference (COP21).
China is playing a key role of a responsible partner during the ongoing climate conference negotiations in Paris, member of European Parliament (MEP) Giovanni La Via, said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua.
Ministers from almost 200 countries on Monday began to review the final draft of a new global climate agreement, kicking off a week of compromise and a test of the united force of the world.
A final draft of a new global climate agreement was reached by negotiators in Paris on Saturday, ready for ministers to read and deal with sensitive political divergences next week.
China has been very active and constructive in the ongoing climate change negotiations here, former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Yvo de Boer told Xinhua in an exclusive interview on Thursday.
China vows to continue to play a constructive role in the Paris climate talks, said China's special representative on climate change Xie Zhenhua to media here at the COP21 on Thursday.
The Paris climate talks entered stage of substantive negotiations on Tuesday as negotiators began to turn political will that their leaders expressed into concrete solutions to various disputes over a new climate agreement.
China will host the 2016 Group of Twenty (G20) summit in the eastern city of Hangzhou from Sept. 4 to 5, and formally take over the presidency of G20 on Dec. 1, 2015.
This was President Aquino’s message to world leaders as he spoke here yesterday for countries most vulnerable to climate change.
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