Syria: Security Council extends cross-border aid delivery for six months
The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution to extend lifesaving aid deliveries into northwest Syria from Türkiye for a further six months following...
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Income-based Solutions Paramount for Addressing Food Insecurity Experts
Ottawa, Jul 12 (IPS) – Lisa Argiropulos, a single mother of two teenage sons and a resident of Ottawa, Ontario, has been facing food...
A Future Horror and the Hope of the Present
MEXICO CITY, Jul 12 (IPS) – This is an alert message: if nothing stops the wave of violence in Mexico, by the end of...
Entrepreneurship Blooms in Villages Bordering Pakistan Desert
RAHIM YAR KHAN, Pakistan, Jul 12 (IPS) – Villagers living with a desert at their doorstep in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province are finding life...
Gang violence in Port-au-Prince threatens more than a million food-insecure Haitians
Surging and deadly gang violence in the Haitian capital has contributed to runaway food insecurity for well over one million people there, the UN...
The World is Burning. We Need a Renewables Revolution
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 12 (IPS) – The only true path to energy security, stable power prices, prosperity and a livable planet lies in abandoning...
Aid for Power in New Cold War
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 12 (IPS) – Long a means for powerful nations to influence developing countries, development finance has gained renewed significance...
The values that we ascribe to nature are vital parts of our cultures, identities, economies, and ways of life, all of which should be...
Although the UN-brokered truce between the Yemeni Government and Houthi rebels continues to hold, the key issue of road openings remains outstanding, while the...
World population to reach 8 billion this year, as growth rate slows
15 November 2022 is predicted to be the day that the global population reaches eight billion. The projection is revealed in the UN’s World...
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