‘Nowhere is safe’: UN experts detail Ukraine war’s toll and Russia’s reach beyond its borders
UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts on Monday laid out a grim picture of the human cost of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with a spotlight...
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Why climate action now comes down to speed, finance and cooperation
Temporarily exceeding the 1.5°C global warming goal set in Paris is widely considered inevitable. The challenge now is to keep that overshoot as small...
UN panel calls for stronger safeguards as AI agents advance
The world’s first scientific body on Artificial Intelligence called on Monday for AI safeguards to be adapted as current firewalls are “unravelling”. Read the...
Ebola vaccine trial begins in DR Congo
An Ebola vaccine trial is underway in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), involving frontline health workers and others involved in the response....
First radio waves seen from an exoplanet hint at otherworldly auroras
The gas giant Beta Pictoris b, about 63 light-years away, has the mass of 10 Jupiters and a magnetic field thousands of times as...
MRIs show brain changes linked to Alzheimer’s years in advance
A thickening cortex, as shown in MRIs, preceded amyloid-beta accumulation, a known hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, by up to seven years.
The right to development: Why equity, not charity, is a human right
Compare two children born in the same year: one in a country with functioning schools, social services, fair elections and a dynamic economy and...
US Visas for Ruthless Autocrats to Address UN– but not for Palestinian Leaders
UNITED NATIONS, September 21 (IPS) – When Yasser Arafat was denied a US visa for his second visit to New York to address the...
Sudan: Blood on Foreign Powers’ Hands
LONDON, September 21 (IPS) – Sudan’s civil war grinds on. It’s close to three and a half years since the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)...
United Nations Least Developed Country Category – Curse or Boon?
SYDNEY, September 21 (IPS) – The UN General Assembly will soon vote – most likely favourably – on Bangladesh’s request to postpone the country’s...
As Sudan war spills into Central African Republic, UN warns against early peacekeeper exit 
AI on track to ‘crowd out’ human decision-making in warfare 
From Small Islands to Antalya: COP31 Must Move Climate Promises from Paper to People 
‘One step away from famine’: Inside Afghanistan’s hunger crisis