Saudi Arabia Forms Multinational Red Sea Defence Alliance as U.S.-Iran War Threatens Global Shipping
UNITED NATIONS, August 3 (IPS) – As the United States and Iran continue to escalate with military strikes across both fronts, the conflict took...
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Female Genital Mutilation: Winning the Argument, Losing the Funding
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, August 3 (IPS) – Last August, a one-month-old girl in The Gambia bled to death after being subjected to female genital mutilation...
Accepting What It Cannot Control, CARICOM Focuses on What It Can
GROS ISLET, Saint Lucia , August 3 (IPS) – From wars that drive up fuel prices to supply chain disruptions, inflation and increasingly frequent...
Rohingya Repatriation: A Roadmap Without a Road
VANCOUVER B.C., Canada, August 3 (IPS) – The Rohingya crisis remains one of the most enduring humanitarian and political failures in South and Southeast...
Who picks up the tab for AI’s unbridled genius?
ROME, August 3 (IPS) – For the last few years, Artificial intelligence has been making increasingly intrusive demands for our attention. It burst onto...
Trapped by a Facebook job advert, freed by a stranger in a taxi
Sofia* was 27, raising her seven-year-old son alone in Venezuela, and running out of options. For years she had distributed personal hygiene products door...
Recovery in Ukraine, one life at a time
In classrooms, maternity wards, hospital corridors and local communities across Ukraine, people are rebuilding their lives despite the ongoing war. Read the full story,...
Wildfires are often associated with the destruction they leave behind, but the smoke they produce can pose a serious health threat far beyond the...
As much of the world faces grapples with above normal temperatures and major rainfall changes, the UN Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Friday that...
Violence and civilian casualties are rising across the Middle East – from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza to continued hostilities in Lebanon and the West...
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