On December 19, the Embassy of Japan in Afghanistan, in a series of posts on X, had announced that the Japanese Government would provide an additional 19.5 million USD assistance to Afghanistan, ...

The UN refugee agency says Japan has provided $2 million in humanitarian funding to assist returnees in Afghanistan, as ...

Is poverty today more painful because hope is everywhere? The modern world has been selling everyone a path out of despair ...

A signboard critical of “me first” actions has won an annual contest featuring fairly common yet often overlooked fixtures ...

When people think of the European Middle Ages, it often brings to mind grinding poverty, superstition and darkness. But the reality of the 1,000-year period from 500 to 1500 was much more complex.

According to the United Nations, Sri Lanka loses more than $300 million every year from climate-triggered extreme weather. At ...

In the late 1930s, an ambitious American airliner was designed to change the future of flight, but instead became a costly failure. During World War II, that same aircraft design resurfaced in Japan ...

Pope Leo XIV during his first Christmas Day message on Thursday urged the faithful to shed indifference in the face of those who have lost everything, such as in Gaza, those who are impoverished, such ...

After sleeping rough, pianist Rhys Wynne-Jones went viral playing in a church. He tells Big Issue what homelessness really takes from people.

Shinshu University, Community Jameel and Jameel Corporation have announced a new trial resulting in a breakthrough in water purification that could enhance access to safe drinking water to rural ...

The state bill: Assembly Bill 630 gave L.A. County authority to dispose of abandoned or inoperable RVs that have an estimated ...