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Check the list of third world countries or least developed countries in 2026. This classification is based on UN Economic and Social Council or ECOSOC. The term third world countries is a Cold War era ...

The pandemic has highlighted inequalities in countries around the world, from the protests against systemic racism and police brutality that swept through the United States last summer to the ongoing ...

The aftermath of a global pandemic re-shuffles Global Finance’s ranking of the world’s safest countries. With the world turned upside-down and inside-out by international conflict—Russia’s war in ...

Roopashree Sharma is an experienced broadcast journalist with over 7 years of experience, specialising in beats including geopolitics, defence, and general awareness. She has worked in the roles of ...

A society’s true health is revealed by how it treats its youngest members. Providing a safe, clean and educational environment—backed by social protection systems—ensures that children grow up to be ...

Concern has been growing for the past several years about the future of democracy, and there is considerable dissatisfaction in many countries with how democracy is working in practice. But public ...

Also known as Congo-Brazzaville, this country lies in Central Africa, bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Atlantic Ocean. This ...

The world is way off track for preventing “climate catastrophe,” and scientists are sounding the alarm that time is running out to slash fossil fuels. Data from Climate Action Tracker, an independent ...

Climate change is causing new humanitarian crises and, compounding with conflict and poverty, accelerating existing crises in vulnerable communities around the world. Meanwhile, these communities are ...