Extreme weather fuelled by the climate crisis has cost some of the world’s poorest countries $156bn (£116bn) across the past two decades, The Independent can reveal. Intense drought, flooding, ...

Global stocks continue to fall, and fears of a recession are growing, after Donald Trump rejected calls to scale back his order to institute sweeping tariffs on most of the world. The move will be ...

Afghanistan: The Taliban's Unexpected Tourism Draw According to Deputy Minister of Tourism Qudratullah Jamal, almost 9,000 international tourists flocked to Afghanistan in 2024, while 3,000 visited in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's administration plans to end U.S. funding for Gavi, an organization that helps buy vaccines ...

Leaders from across the world are flying in to the Northern Brazilian city of Belém, ahead of the Cop30 climate conference. As happens every year, a key a subject that will be raised by the world’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anti-immigrant sentiment in Portugal is helping the far-Right Chega party move from the fringes of politics toward the centre of ...

President Donald Trump’s new tariffs are set to hit some of the world’s poorest nations the hardest, putting their labor-intensive export industries at risk and diminishing one of the US’s biggest ...

A falling dollar is normally good for the developing world. Because poor countries borrow more in the greenback than rich ones, their debt bills become less burdensome. At the same time, imports ...

Babies born in the worlds poorest countries, most of them in Africa, still face "alarming" risks of death that can be 50 times as high as those in the richest countries, according to a UNICEF report ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's administration plans to end U.S. funding for Gavi, an organization that helps buy vaccines for children in poor countries, and will scale back efforts to combat ...