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The president will make stops in Israel, the West Bank and then Saudi Arabia, where he’ll seek to rebuild relations just a year after vowing to make the kingdom a “pariah.”

It’s crucial to ‘hold Russia accountable,’ environment minister tells POLITICO.

Doctor says there is no difference between suffering in Congo and Ukraine.

Outgoing Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa reflects on surviving cancer, Trump and the state of climate talks in an exit interview with POLITICO.

The coalition government has promised to deliver it, but it’s easier said than done.

‘We do not respond to pressure in this way,’ the Serbian president tells the German chancellor in rebuke.

A push to impose stricter food standards on non-EU countries fizzles out.

Ukraine president says Moscow ‘working’ toward starving millions by blockading the Black Sea.

Moscow has a parallel version of events in which Ukraine is responsible for the closure of the port of Odesa.

The diatribe leaves Moscow’s envoy isolated but Russia has no intention of ditching the UN-led climate process.

Kremlin’s Sergey Lavrov will hold talks with Turkish foreign minister in Ankara on Wednesday.

‘Nobody supplies [weapons] on a similar scale as Germany does,’ German chancellor says, despite evidence to the contrary.

U.N. climate chief raises alarm over a ‘world beset with conflicts, energy, food and economic crises.’

In speech to Security Council, European Council president refutes Kremlin claims about Western sanctions.

Tens of thousands of people remain caught in the crossfire as the bloody battle for the Donbas grinds on.

Macky Sall calls on countries to lift sanctions on Russian wheat and fertilizers — even though there aren’t any.

Reopening Ukraine’s maritime ports is the only way of exporting grains stuck in the country, says Eduard Heger.

The country requested this week to be known globally by its Turkish name.

For low-income countries, ‘pandemic preparedness’ means more than fighting the next virus. It’s about building the capacity necessary to keep entire health systems from crumbling.

Advocacy groups say they’re ‘appalled’ by UN human rights chief’s performance in Xinjiang.

Open markets aren’t what they used to be. A more complicated, more regional economic system is reshaping the global order.

Boris Bondarev is the second high-ranking Russian official to quit since the war began in February.