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Lack of communication over surplus doses has prompted suspicion and anger.

United Nations diplomats and civil servants fear peace efforts in Geneva may aid the spread of the coronavirus.

After announcing its decision to withdraw from the U.N. health agency, the United States still seeks to shape the organization’s reform. It is struggling to find takers.

Beijing has produced a booklet to counter allegations that it’s curtailing the freedoms of Hong Kong residents, abusing Uighurs, and failing to come clean on its role in the spread of the coronavirus.

An alliance of international health organizations are competing with the United States and other rich countries in an effort to secure vaccines for the world’s neediest.

The rise of “vaccine nationalism” threatens to leave poor countries out in the cold. 

Chinese history shows that where soldiers march, plague follows.

The coronavirus has shut down large-scale treatment and prevention programs around the globe, which could send malaria deaths skyrocketing this year.

U.S. fails to gain support for an immediate investigation into coronavirus origins and for bringing Taiwan on as observer. 

Beijing insists the World Health Organization should act according to “the one-China principle.”

With Putin’s help, Assad has constrained the capacity of the United Nations to deliver health supplies in opposition-controlled territory, which faces rising risk of the coronavirus. 

But Russia blocks the reopening of a critical border crossing for humanitarian aid.

Critics say fighting the coronavirus has become secondary as U.S. seeks to hamstring the World Health Organization, turning it into a 2020 election issue along with Chinese trade.

A new report says the Middle East’s poorest country is uniquely vulnerable, as it records its first case of the coronavirus.

In the absence of U.S. leadership, the U.N. is struggling to carve out a role in the face of what may be the greatest threat since its founding.

With the coronavirus pandemic, the United States faces the greatest global challenge to its sanctions policy since the 1990s.

A major player in the Ebola outbreak, the council has turned into the site of a U.S.-China showdown over the coronavirus.

State Department struggles to bring thousands of stranded Americans home as air travel shuts down from the global coronavirus pandemic.

Health concerns deal another blow to the U.S. foreign service, which is already overstretched following a 2017 hiring freeze.