The voluntary return of nearly 20,000 Central African refugees marks a key step toward sustainable peace and development in the region, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced today.

The EU should put human rights at the center of its intensifying engagement with Central Asian countries at the inaugural ...

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The commission whittled it down to 10 finalists, then added the current 1915 flag, and banners created for the state’s 1918 Centennial and 1968 Sesquicentennial.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, Union Jack, Maple Leaf — or SOB. That would ...

Oklahoma firefighters are bracing for a historic weather system that's expected to bring widespread heavy winds and the threat of fast-moving, dangerous fires this weekend. The powerful low ...

Rabat – Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, hosted his Central African counterpart, Sylvie Baïpo-Temon, on Wednesday in Rabat. She delivered a written message to King ...

Policymakers at all levels of government have many difficult choices to make as rising health care, education, and infrastructure costs place pressures on annual budgets and outpace revenue growth.

With the stock market tumbling, consumer confidence skidding and U.S. companies ramping up layoffs, it may look like the nation is hurtling toward a recession amid President Donald Trump’s ...

Ms. Lerato Mataboge (South Africa) was elected as the Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy (I&E) department. Ms. Mataboge is a global policy and trade and investment facilitation expert and is ...