KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 10 (IPS) – Producers and consumers seem helpless as food all over the world comes under fast growing corporate control....
A common antibiotic slows a mysterious coral disease
Slathering corals in a common antibiotic seems to temporarily soothe a mysterious tissue-eating disease, new research suggests. Just off Florida, a type of coral...
Middle East Envoys express deep concern over East Jerusalem violence
The Envoys of the Middle East Quartet (from the European Union, Russia, the United States, and the United Nations), have expressed deep concern over...
How India’s COVID-19 crisis became the worst in the world
PUNE, India — Mohanish Ellitam watched helplessly as his 49-year-old mother’s oxygen levels dipped dangerously and she gasped for air. “I could see her stomach...
‘I am alive, but I feel like I am dead’: a migrant grieves the drowning of 3 children
Misrah, an undocumented migrant worker, and her family, left their home in Ethiopia hoping for a better life. Instead, her three children are now...
The United Nations remembers the dead of WWII
The Second World War had a profound impact on the international community, and established the conditions for the creation of the United Nations. This...
Saturday’s deadly bombing outside a high school in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, has been condemned by leading UN officials. The attack led to...
Latin America Bets Heavily on Hydrogen
MEXICO CITY, May 08 (IPS) – Several Latin American countries are stepping up the pace to generate hydrogen for various uses in transportation and...
What can the UN do to support India through its deadly COVID-19 surge?
The UN is at the forefront of efforts to help India extricate itself from the almost unimaginable scale of suffering its citizens are undergoing,...
A sure sign of spring in northern Europe is the arrival of the Arctic tern bird, but ahead of the UN’s World Migratory Bird...
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