COVID-19 cases rise for ninth consecutive week, variants continue spreading
COVID-19 infections have increased for the ninth consecutive week globally while variants continue their spread, the UN health agency has confirmed. Read the full story, “COVID-19 cases rise for ninth consecutive week,...
Spyware Threatens Press Freedoms Privacy Imperative
NEW YORK, Apr 28 (IPS) – Spyware’s repeated use to target journalists and those close to them poses an existential threat to the privacy...
Revived peace process, lasting calm, and a new constitution needed in Syria
In addition to the challenges that all Syrians have faced during a 10-year conflict, women have experienced sexual and gender-based violence, early and forced...
A clock’s accuracy may be tied to the entropy it creates
Today’s most advanced clocks keep time with an incredibly precise rhythm. But a new experiment suggests that clocks’ precision comes at a price: entropy....
Fresh clashes between Myanmar security forces and regional armed groups have displaced thousands across the country, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs...
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Tuesday named investigative journalist and media executive Maria Ressa of the Philippines as the...
Child displacement in the Central African Republic (CAR) has now reached its highest level since 2014, according to the latest estimates from the UN...
Why Variants are Most Likely to Blame for India’s COVID Surge
Apr 28 (IPS) – With more than 300,000 new COVID cases a day and hospitals and crematoria facing collapse, Director-General of the World Health...
Why Experts are Saying Its a Make or Break Moment for Forests
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 28 (IPS) – A new global report on forests says that while the COVID-19 pandemic is the latest threat to achieving...
Climate change may have changed the direction of the North Pole’s drift
A sudden zag in which way the North Pole’ was drifting in the 1990s probably stemmed in large part from glacial melt caused by...
Women and girls pay high price in DR Congo Ebola outbreak 
Less than 4 years from development goals deadline, progress shows what’s possible 
Sexual violence against civilians and POW’s in Ukraine widespread and ‘abhorrent’ 
‘Violence will only defer a problem’: UN Assembly President on trust, AI and lessons from the Rohingya crisis