Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler discussed "new crises" in the Middle East with the UAE's president during his first visit to ...

Steven A. Cook is a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at ...

UN talks aimed at halting the degradation and desertification of vast swathes of land start in Saudi Arabia on Monday after ...

The talks were about phasing out plastic production, improving waste management, design requirements for plastic products and ...

The UN environment chief insisted Monday that talks on a landmark plastic pollution treaty were not a failure, saying ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called it a "moonshot moment": a 12-day meeting for the United Nations Convention ...

Global talks to forge a landmark treaty aimed at reducing plastic pollution broke down after negotiators from more than 170 ...

They are at an impasse over whether the treaty should reduce the total plastic on Earth and put global, legally binding ...

Oil-rich nations like Saudi Arabia strongly oppose efforts to reduce plastic production and use procedural tactics to delay ...

Delegates from more than 170 countries huddled for a week of marathon negotiations but came up short on delivering a treaty.