The U.S. state of Ohio filed a lawsuit Wednesday against five prescription drug manufacturers, saying they used deceptive practices that fueled an opioid addiction epidemic.
The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States has caused Vietnam to look for new trade deals.
Human rights values and freedoms are under attack throughout the world, according to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein. In an opening speech to the 32nd session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, he outlined a number of pressing human rights concerns he said could have been prevented.
For the first time the U.N. Security Council has used language acknowledging violence targeting the LGBT community in an official statement.