In Burkina Faso, UN humanitarians on Friday appealed to the international community for help, after attacks by armed groups forced thousands to flee their...
Sweltering conditions in Europe have come earlier than expected this year but the bad news is, they’re the shape of things to come. Read...
Sexual violence in conflict ‘terrorizes populations, destroys lives and fractures communities’
Sexual violence has become a brutal tactic of warfare and repression that “terrorizes populations, destroys lives and fractures communities,” the UN chief said on...
A UN human rights expert on Friday urged the United Kingdom to halt its controversial policy of transferring some asylum seekers to Rwanda and expressed...
Hate speech incites violence, undermines diversity and social cohesion and “threatens the common values and principles that bind us together,” the UN chief said...
World has ‘gambled on fossil fuels and lost’, warns Guterres
The current global economic paradigm of infinite growth based on using up a finite amount of resources, such as fossil fuels, will only deliver...
Slave Markets Open 24/7: Refugee Babies, Boys, Girls, Women, Men
MADRID, Jun 17 (IPS) – In addition to slave selling and buying deals in public squares, as reported time ago in ‘liberated’ Libya, a...
Seven newfound dwarf galaxies sit on just one side of a larger galaxy
PASADENA, Calif. — The faint dwarf galaxies in a nearby galaxy group seem to have missed the memo. Instead of being dispersed evenly around...
Western wildfires’ health risks extend across the country
After a relaxing day at the Jersey Shore last July, Jessica Reeder and her son and daughter headed back home to Philadelphia. As they...
A COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 5 is nearly here
The littlest kids in the United States are nearly done waiting for a COVID-19 vaccine. On June 15, an advisory committee to the U.S....
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
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This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
Greta Thunberg’s new book urges the world to take climate action now