WHO backs football body FIFA’s #ReachOut campaign for mental health
The world football body, FIFA, launched a UN-backed campaign on Monday designed to raise awareness of potentially damaging mental health issues, and encourage people...
General Assembly creates new Permanent Forum of People of African Descent
Capping years of deliberations, the UN General Assembly on Monday established a new platform to improve the lives of Afro-descendants, who have for centuries suffered the...
SINGAPORE, Aug 02 (IPS) – It had been four long months since the meeting in Alaska between Chinese and American officials, their first interaction...
Greece’s Santorini volcano erupts more often when sea level drops
When sea level drops far below the present-day level, the island volcano Santorini in Greece gets ready to rumble. A comparison of the activity...
The United Nations is encouraging everyone across the world to participate in the literal race against the climate emergency. Read the full story, “Lace...
WTO Inches Closer To Agreement on Harmful Fishing Subsidies
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 02 (IPS) – After more than 20 years of negotiations, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has moved a step closer to an agreement...
After Vilifying the UN, US Returns to the World Body
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 02 (IPS) – Ed Koch, a sharp-tongued Mayor of New York city (1978-89), once stopped short of using a four-letter word...
Increasing Revenue & Protecting Public Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
CAPETOWN / BANGKOK, Aug 02 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on millions of families and damaged the economy of countries...
A hammerhead shark baby boom near Florida hints at a historic nursery
It seems like an unlikely place for a nursery of endangered hammerhead sharks, but a recreational hot spot just off the coast of Miami...
A super-short gamma-ray burst defies astronomers’ expectations
A surprisingly short gamma-ray burst has astronomers rethinking what triggers these celestial cataclysms. The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a single-second-long blast of gamma...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
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