When Big Powers Clash, the UNs Most Powerful Body Disappears
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 04 (IPS) – At the height of the Cold War back in the 1960s, a Peruvian diplomat, Dr. Victor Andres Belaunde,...
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Bidens Opportunity To End Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
NEW YORK, Dec 07 (IPS) – Recently I had an opportunity to brief a group of European diplomats and journalists on a variety of...
Mexico Sticks to Natural Gas, Despite Socioenvironmental Impacts
Mexico City, Dec 07 (IPS) – In his community of small farmers and ranchers in northern Mexico, Aristeo Benavides has witnessed the damage caused...
A UN Power Monopoly That Cries Out for a Break
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 07 (IPS) – Will four strong contenders for permanent seats in the UN Security Council (UNSC)– Germany, India, Japan and Brazil—help...
How Artificial Intelligence Could Widen Gap Between Rich & Poor Nations
WASHINGTON DC, Dec 08 (IPS) – New technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, robotics, big data, and networks are expected to revolutionize production...
KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Dec 08 (IPS) – Fiscal and monetary measures needed to fight the economic downturn, largely due to COVID-19 policy responses,...
Choice and Opportunity for African Farmers Will Transform Africa
NAIROBI, Dec 07 (IPS) – A hungry man is not a free man. He cannot focus on anything else but securing his next meal....
Chain of Alaskan islands might really be one monster volcano
Six volcanic islands in the Aleutian archipelago may be linked together in one massive caldera hiding underwater.
Earth spent 500 million years creating and eating dead continents
For more than a billion years, Earth covered itself in new continents. New research shows that those continents were quickly swallowed up again but...
Nazi ‘Enigma’ machine found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea
Divers trying to remove old fishing nets from the Baltic sea have accidentally stumbled on a Nazi code-making “Enigma” machine.
Heat-trapping asteroid dust may have incinerated the dinosaurs within hours 
Hiroshima fosters hope, 81 years on from nuclear catastrophe 
The Year of Pastoralists Must Be More Than Symbolic 
Rohingya Refugees Seeking Safe Haven in Bangladesh Hit by Fresh Disasters