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India has staked a claim as the leading voice of the developing world in an "emerging multipolar order", casting itself at the United Nations General Assembly as a better fit for the role than other regional powers like China. Addressing the general assembly in New York on Tuesday, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar cited Sri Lanka's economic downturn, which India and many Western countries and their allies have blamed on Beijing's "debt diplomacy". &#x...

This article is authored by Ananya Raj Kakoti and Gunwant Sing, scholar, international relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Boric reckons with the crimes of the past in order to forge a more just future.

The Group of Four (G4) nations, consisting of India, Brazil, Germany, and Japan, met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly to discuss the reform of the UN Security Council. In a joint statement, the ministers emphasized the need for comprehensive reform to address current global challenges. They called for the expansion of the Security Councils membership to make it more representative and efficient, with a particular focus on increasing the participation of developing countrie...

People who receive self-adjustable eyeglasses have better results in education, social participation and employment than those without them.

UN General Assembly begins amid conflict in Ukraine, climate disasters, and global divisions. Only President Biden and Ukraines President Zelensky will attend.

(Reuters) -U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a climate summit of leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that time was running out to tackle climate change, thanks in part to the "naked greed" of fossil fuel interests. With the two-week U.N. climate summit, COP28, due to start on Nov. 29 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, Guterres implored national policymakers to phase out climate-warming fossil fuels.

/PRNewswire/ -- A High-Level UNGA consultative session on international finance and energy transition diplomacy, which included sitting and former Heads of...

The just-concluded G20 summit in New Delhi attracted as much attention for who was not there – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping – as for the discussions among those who showed up. While India, which has worked hard to position itself as a unifying diplomatic force and a spokesperson of the Global South, managed to secure consensus on a final declaration, this was no easy feat, owing not least to disagreements over how to refer to the Ukraine war.

Chinas position as a leader in the global south is being challenged by a rising India. India, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is presenting itself as a different kind of leader for developing countries, one that is less domineering and more supportive. Indias recent success in persuading the United States and Europe to focus on the concerns of poorer countries at the G20 summit is evidence of its growing influence.