More than eight million new COVID-19 cases were reported in the Americas last week, the highest weekly caseload since the start of the pandemic,...
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Bachelet: ‘We need to push back against hatred’
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, warned on Wednesday that “racism and xenophobia are rising sharply”, highlighting violent attacks on Jewish sites and antisemitic incidents reported in many countries....
‘We cannot abandon the people of Afghanistan’ Guterres tells Security Council
With Afghanistan “hanging by a thread” six months after the Taliban takeover, the world cannot abandon the country now – for the sake of...
Tonga tsunami: ‘Kids were screaming as if a war was upon us’
A Tongan family’s trip to visit relatives on Mango island earlier this month turned into a nightmare, when the country was devastated by the...
Military solution for Syria remains ‘an illusion’: Pedersen
With no shifts in the frontlines in almost two years, the UN Special Envoy for Syria warnedt he Security Council about “a strategic stalemate” in the nearly 11-year-old war. Read the full story, “Military solution for...
UN mourns ‘true pioneer’: Brigadier General Constance Emefa Edjeani-Afenu
For the United Nations’ Secretary General, Brigadier General Constance Emefa Edjeani-Afenu, who passed away this week in her home country, Ghana, was “a true pioneer.” ...
Heatwave and Drought Hit South Americas Crops and Economy
BUENOS AIRES, Jan 26 (IPS) – Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, the three major agricultural producers in South America, are currently experiencing a prolonged period...
Battle for Palestine: & the Day When David Felled Goliath with a Stone
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 26 (IPS) – When Israeli Ambassador Gilat Erdan made an unusual presentation before the Security Council last week displaying a large...
NEW JERSEY, Jan 26 (IPS) – “A lack of respect for human life from conception to natural death and a lack of respect for...
Madagascar: Deadly tropical storms cause flooding, landslides
Two separate tropical weather systems in Madagascar have left at least 34 dead and triggered flooding and landslides, particularly in the capital, Antananarivo, the...
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