US Arms Stockpiles Hit by Iran War
UNITED NATIONS, August 7 (IPS) – The highly- unpredictable five-month-old US-Iran war has been plagued by on-again, off-again peace agreements — with such monotonous...
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The World’s Aid Workers Must Be Protected
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 7 (IPS) – This summer, an ambush on a marked humanitarian convoy in Duk County, South Sudan, left 17 dead and...
Burkina Faso’s Cancelled Democracy
LONDON, August 7 (IPS) – Burkina Faso’s charismatic young military leader, army captain Ibrahim Traoré, has stopped pretending. In April, he declared that people...
Gaza: 300 children killed in 300 days of Israeli-Hamas ‘ceasefire’
At least 300 children in Gaza have been reportedly killed in as many days since a ceasefire agreement came into effect last October to...
Security Council LIVE: Warnings of famine and collapse as South Sudan’s peace deal frays
Nearly eight million people in South Sudan – more than half the population – face crisis-level hunger, with famine risk now flagged in four...
‘Wanton, intentional infliction of incredible pain’ by gangs in Haiti
Gangs in Haiti continue to terrorize communities with the “wanton, intentional infliction of incredible pain” on people who often are just in the wrong...
Here’s what the first mRNA flu vaccine could mean for flu season
Compared with standard flu shots, Moderna’s mFlusiva generates stronger, longer-lasting immunity and is more effective at preventing infection, data show.
Sugar may have been a key ingredient in human evolution
A sweet tooth for sugars from fruits and honey may have helped fuel brain growth in our primate cousins and early human ancestors, a...
Heat-trapping asteroid dust may have incinerated the dinosaurs within hours
Within minutes of impact, debris began heating Earth’s atmosphere. Fine dust trapped that heat, potentially killing the dinosaurs quickly.
Hiroshima fosters hope, 81 years on from nuclear catastrophe
Eighty-one years ago on Thursday, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, reducing the city to ruins, killing tens of thousands of...
‘Where do we go?’: How Israel’s ‘yellow line’ is closing in on Palestinians 
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Security Council LIVE: Ambassadors mark 9/11 with counter-terrorism push on AI and drones 
Surge in displacement following fighting in southwest Yemen