Opinion

Concerns over the safety and protection of whistleblowers are again in the spotlight.

Global average temperatures are likely to continue at or near record levels this year and for the next four years afterwards, the United Nations warned Thursday.

A trust fund set up to help a South Pacific nation gravely threatened by climate change has invested in coal mining, gas exploration and the world's largest crude oil refinery, an AFP investigation has revealed.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered the wealthy finance hub to resolve housing woes that are the result of decades of pervasive inequality, an acute housing shortage and eye-watering rents.

Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz warned that the country was at a "breaking point" after nearly a month of protests that have caused shortages of food, fuel and life-saving medicine.