Food prices edged up in July amid heatwaves and energy price hikes
The cost of key foods edged up last month as searing heatwaves and ongoing geopolitical uncertainty impacted energy prices around the world. Read the...
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In Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan, One Woman Refuses a Life of Dependence
KABUL, August 7 (IPS) – The Taliban’s rise to power robbed Mehrmaa of her husband, her job and her chance to live freely. Read...
Hiroshima’s Question: Will We Continue to Live Under the Nuclear Shadow?
HIROSHIMA, Japan, August 7 (IPS) – This year’s Hiroshima Peace Declaration did not begin with words of remembrance alone. It opened instead with what...
Ebola virus reaches displacement camps in DR Congo
Agencies are on high alert amid reports that the rapidly spreading Ebola Bundibugyo virus species in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has...
‘A clear violation’: Guterres deplores deadliest attack on Kyiv this year
UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned on Wednesday the deadliest Russian strikes on Kyiv this year, which killed 17 people and caused extensive damage to...
Cuba: Independent experts condemn new US sanctions as humanitarian crisis deepens
Independent UN human rights experts on Thursday condemned a fresh round of US sanctions against Cuba, calling them an attempt to force change on...
Burkina Faso’s Cancelled Democracy
LONDON, August 7 (IPS) – Burkina Faso’s charismatic young military leader, army captain Ibrahim Traoré, has stopped pretending. In April, he declared that people...
The World’s Aid Workers Must Be Protected
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 7 (IPS) – This summer, an ambush on a marked humanitarian convoy in Duk County, South Sudan, left 17 dead and...
US Arms Stockpiles Hit by Iran War
UNITED NATIONS, August 7 (IPS) – The highly- unpredictable five-month-old US-Iran war has been plagued by on-again, off-again peace agreements — with such monotonous...
Gaza: 300 children killed in 300 days of Israeli-Hamas ‘ceasefire’
At least 300 children in Gaza have been reportedly killed in as many days since a ceasefire agreement came into effect last October to...
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