Thirty years ago researchers first identified AIDS as a disease caused by the HIV. Now a pandemic, AIDS has been recognized as a major threat to humanity. But if early on catching AIDS was viewed as an automatic death sentence, now that is no longer the case, and overall new HIV infections rates are declining.
Yandex is going public. The popular Russian search engine will hold a highly anticipated initial public offering in New York this week and will list on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.
Two U.S. immigrants from North Africa have been arrested in New York and charged with plotting to blow up a synagogue with the aim of killing Jewish people.
Bosnia-Herzegovina is facing its worst crisis since the 1995 Dayton peace agreement. That's the conclusion of a report prepared by Valentin Inzko, the high representative for Bosnia who has presented his findings to the UN Security Council.
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor is seeking at least three arrest warrants in his investigation into crimes against humanity in Libya.
On the eve of World Press Freedom Day, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has issued a report on how authoritarian regimes are becoming increasingly adept in their efforts to suppress online media freedom.
Although a world away from war-ravaged Afghanistan, a theater company based in New York has developed a special bond with the country, training local actors in how to bring "informational theater" to remote villages.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov says he thinks the next step in the "reset" of relations between Moscow and Washington should be improved economic ties between the two countries. Ivanov spoke on April 4 to an audience at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations.
A collection of 40,000 works of Soviet avant-garde art, housed since 1966 in a museum on the fringes of western Uzbekistan, is creating quite a buzz among Western art aficionados. But it also seems to be unnerving bureaucrats in Tashkent.
China and Russia have been actively pursuing the issue of piracy on the high seas. On March 10, the council is scheduled to discuss Somali-based piracy in a special session, in which Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will address the latest developments.
The United Nations has admitted it made a rare error when it issued a statement from Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on February 27 accusing Belarus of delivering three attack helicopters to the embattled former president of Ivory Coast in violation of the UN arms embargo.
The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a sanctions resolution against the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi. It also calls for the International Criminal Court to probe the crackdown on antigovernment protesters in Libya and prosecute anyone responsible for killing civilians.
The United Nations Security Council has condemned the crackdown on protesters by Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi's regime.
In a wide-ranging policy speech at the Asia Society in New York, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has outlined Washington's priorities toward Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Republican members of the U.S. Congress are once again targeting U.S. funding for the United Nations. On January 25, a committee in the House of Representatives criticized the world body, characterizing it as "bloated" and "ineffective."
The latest "Freedom in The World" report by the U.S.-based rights watchdog Freedom House indicates that authoritarian regimes across a broad geographical range are stepping up their suppression of freedom.
After successful New York runs in 2006 and 2008, Minsk's Belarus Free Theater, an underground company whose politically charged plays have angered the authoritarian regime, is set to headline the independent theater festival Under The Radar 2011.
As perestroika brought new artistic freedoms to the Soviet Union, Boney M's popularity faded but never completely vanished. Farrell, however, remained a constant, continuing to tour throughout the former Soviet bloc.
It's been 75 years since two Soviet journalists with a taste for adventure set off on a two-month journey through the United States.
The United States has successfully persuaded the United Nations to include "sexual orientation" as a category of vulnerable populations whose targeted killings the world body condemns.
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