The United Nations is calling for a flurry of efforts to reduce the human toll from soaring and searing temperatures in what it calls an extreme heat epidemic

Workers have linked the U.S. and Canadian sides of the new Gordie Howe International Bridge spanning the Detroit River

ADDIS ABABA – The death toll from landslides in Ethiopia earlier this week has risen to 257 and is expected to almost double, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said on Thursday.

Due to warmer temperatures and increasing urbanization, the market for cooling systems is expanding in Africa

Chinese officials have warned a delegation of top U.S. executives visiting Beijing this week that higher tariffs on imports from China will harm their businesses inside the country

RIO DE JANEIRO  – The U.S. has pledged $667 million to the latest funding round for a global fund aimed at preventing pandemics and preparing countries to deal with them, making up one-third of a $2 billion direct funding goal, the U.S. Treasury said on Wednesday.

The Treasury Department is ordering the nation’s banking industry to start disclosing its holdings of Russian assets, with the goal of eventually seizing those billions of dollars in assets and selling them to aid the devastated Ukrainian economy

Vietnam has passed a decree radically loosening the Communist Party-ruled state’s control on how electricity is sold to private companies

Golden fields of wheat no longer produce the bounty they once did in Morocco

A group of 2,000 migrants from dozens of countries have set out on foot from Tapachula, a city in southern Mexico, as they attempt to reach the U.S.