The UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, on Tuesday appealed for $1.6 billion to support its lifesaving work this year amid acute regional...
Omicron continues to sweep the world, but cases seem to have peaked in some countries, which gives the head of the World Health Organization...
UN celebrates 25 years of mandate to protect children caught in conflict
Although international action over the past 25 years has led to the release of more than 170,000 boys and girls recruited to fight, more...
Asia-Pacific: Just 5% of the Region’s Population Owns 70% of Its Total Wealth
MADRID, Jan 18 (IPS) – The Asia-Pacific region is experiencing growing inequality even while registering impressive economic growth and poverty reduction. Such sharp inequalities...
Adolescents Left Behind Global AIDS Response – Experts Experts
Nairobi, Kenya, Jan 18 (IPS) – The ominous warning came in 2019 through an anonymous message on her mobile phone to stay away from...
Take an online journey through the history of math
Around 1900 B.C., a student in the Sumerian city of Nippur, in what’s now Iraq, copied a multiplication table onto a clay tablet. Some...
Scientists vacuumed animal DNA out of thin air for the first time
On a dreary winter day in December of 2020, ecologist Elizabeth Clare strolled through the Hamerton Zoo Park in England wielding a small vacuum...
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Jan 18 (IPS) – I arrived in Somalia in September 2019, two decades after having worked here previously. I knew that I...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 18 (IPS) – Governments must innovatively develop progressive means to finance the large-scale social spending needed to improve lives and...
The Secretary-General condemned on Monday the attacks on Abu Dhabi’s International Airport and the nearby Musaffah industrial area, which reportedly caused several civilian casualties and have...
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