Amid deepening inequalities and escalating crises, including climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, a new United ...

Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro is a vocal critic of the US-led war on drugs, on Monday urged the UN to remove coca -- the main ingredient in cocaine -- from a list of harmful substances.

Colombian Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia, in an address to the UN's Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, insisted Monday that the leaf "is itself not harmful to health". Removing it from a 1961 ...