This week, Mayor Douglas Nicholls of Yuma, Arizona, declared a state of emergency as thousands of illegal immigrants poured into the city and pushed it to its breaking point. As the mayor warned, the sudden influx of people is “above our capacity as a community to sustain.”

China's Belt and Road project is not a "geopolitical tool" or a debt crisis for participating nations, but Beijing welcomes constructive suggestions on how to address concerns over the initiative, the government's top diplomat said on Friday.

RUSSIA has warned the US it's ready for a war over Venezuela as it prepares to invade the crisis-stricken country.

While the world’s poorest bear the brunt of ever more powerful storms, international leaders do little to address the devastating impact of climate change
I am a Mozambican aid agency communicator. is just the latest humanitarian crisis I have been involved in.
Mozambique has a history of being affected by huge storms. The upsetting thing to me is that while international leaders and experts talk about and the impact this is having on the world, the very poorest are bearing the brunt of ever more powerful storms.

Antonio Matimbe is communications manager for World Vision Mozambique. World Vision is one of 13 charity members of the Disasters Emergency Committee working with national partners to support government-led relief efforts. The DEC Cyclone Idai Appeal is at

U.S. health officials on Thursday said they will spend $350 million in four states to study ways to best deal with the nation's opioid crisis on the local level, with a goal of reducing opioid-related overdose deaths by 40 percent over three years in selected communities in those states.

SPAIN is facing its most chaotic election in living history due to a rise in nationalism and dealing with the aftermath of the Catalan government’s independence. Here is the latest on the elections as polls show instability will continue.

Fayez al-Serraj, whose troops face an insurgency, feels "abandoned" by his international allies.

U.S. health officials on Thursday said they will spend $350 million in four states to study ways to best deal with the nation's opioid crisis on the local level, with a goal of reducing opioid-related overdose deaths by 40 percent over three years in selected communities in those states.

As Venezuela's reliance on Russia grows amid the country's unfolding crisis, Vladimir Putin's point man in Caracas is pushing back on the U.S. revival of a doctrine used for generations to justify military interventions in the region.