Russian forces hammered Ukraine with ballistic missiles and long-range drones overnight on Tuesday, killing at least 17 civilians – mainly around Kyiv – and...
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World News in Brief: Cambodia human rights, Hormuz invasive species risk, IOM lauds 2025 progress
Concluding his first official visit to Cambodia, UN independent human rights expert Tom Andrews said he was encouraged by the government’s cooperation but remained...
CHINA: ‘The Ethnic Unity Law Means There Is One Acceptable Way to Be Chinese’
CIVICUS speaks about China’s recently implemented Ethnic Unity Law with Gulchehra Hoja, a correspondent for Reporters Without Borders and a Uyghur activist and journalist...
Strengthening El Niño to push 49 million more people into acute hunger
Nearly 50 million more people in highly vulnerable communities globally are set to be pushed into acute hunger because of the strengthening El Niño...
Security Council LIVE: Ambassadors briefed on continuing ISIL terror threat
The Security Council is meeting on Wednesday to examine the persistent threat posed by the terrorist group ISIL, also known as Dae’sh, to international...
New Chickpea Variety to Drive Climate Resilience in Africa
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe , August 5 (IPS) – New chickpea seed research and production have become the new frontier of climate resilience in southern Africa...
Green transition: Pay the Least, Benefit the Most
BANGKOK, Thailand, August 5 (IPS) – Inaction and maintaining the status quo of fossil fuel dependence carry significant costs. The recent closure of the...
For millions across Africa and the developing world, the biodiversity crisis is not an abstract problem – it’s the soil that no longer yields...
Results may be months away, but efforts are advancing towards enhanced treatment and the world’s first vaccine for the Bundibugyo species of Ebola, the...
Gaza remains unsafe for civilians as Israeli attacks continue, including on schools and canvas classrooms, despite the October Israel-Hamas ceasefire that ended two years...
Gaza: Children still at risk despite drop in acute hunger 
100 days of Ebola and the race to stop the spread 
South Africa’s Anti-Immigrant Violence Slows SDG Goals, Rips Apart Africans’ Free Movement Call 
Global food supply has become ‘collateral damage’ in conflicts: Secretary-General