Turkey’s parliament is scheduled to vote on Finland’s accession to the NATO military alliance on Thursday.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba on Tuesday announced that it would split into six smaller business units.

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has unveiled a program to support Member States in modernizing administrative data for statistical purposes.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has emphasized UN support to African countries in his fight to end the scourge of terrorism, noting that the situation in the region is worrisome.

Pope Francis had a “quiet night” in the hospital after he was admitted for a respiratory infection on Wednesday, according to Italy’s ANSA news agency.

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has asked the Cabinet secretary to review communications between former Police Minister Stuart Nash and his donors.

Hospital doctors in six of Germany’s 16 states began a one-day strike on Thursday in the latest of a wave of employment disputes to disrupt the country this year.

UN Secretary-General, Anthony Guterres, has urged Africans to fight slavery’s legacy of racism through education, noting that the history of slavery is one of suffering and barbarity that shows humanity at its worst.