Recep Tayyip Erdogan

International climate talks turned to a power game on Friday as dozens of world leaders including the Saudi crown prince and India's prime minister were to speak, but two of the world's most powerful men — President Joe Biden of the U.S. and China's President Xi Jinping — were glaringly absent.

Dozens of countries and international institutions on Monday, January 9, 2023, pledged more than $9 billion to help Pakistan recover and rebuild from devastating summer floods that the United Nations chief called “a climate disaster of monumental scale.”

In an interview with independent Russian media outlets, Zelenskyy stressed that Ukraine's priority is ensuring its sovereignty and preventing Moscow from carving it up.

President Xi Jinping, speaking by video to a U.N. conference said China would put in 1.5 billion yuan and called on other countries to contribute to the Kunming Biodiversity Fund.

Racism, the climate crisis and the world’s worsening divisions will take centre stage at the United Nations on Wednesday, a day after the U.N. chief issued a grim warning that “we are on the edge of an abyss.”

At least 25 "innocent" Canadian children are trapped in a refugee camp not far from where Turkey has launched a military offensive in northeastern Syria, an international charity said on Thursday, October 10, 2019, as it called on Ottawa to act now to rescue them.

Canada has joined its major allies on Wednesday, October 9, 2019, in firmly condemning Turkey's military incursion into northern Syria.

Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion said Canada is also troubled by reports of the firings and detentions of tens of thousands of people.

The Turkish government said Monday it detained 755 judges and prosecutors and 650 civilians as well as more than 6,100 members of security forces.