World leaders call for $23 billion to end pandemic this year
The COVID-19 pandemic could be defeated this year but only if vaccines, tests and treatments are made available to all people, UN Secretary-General António...
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More than 30 years after the UN Compensation Commission (UNCC) was created to ensure restitution for Kuwait following the Iraqi invasion of 1990, the...
Uganda must pay the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) $325 million in reparations related to the brutal conflict between the two nations from...
On the last day of a five-day trip to Ethiopia, the Deputy Secretary-General said the East African nation is in “a much better place” to resolve the conflict that erupted 15 months...
Pro-rich Policies Buoy Billionaires Rise in India
NEW DELHI, Feb 09 (IPS) – If India ranks among the world’s fastest growing economies it is also where inequity is growing the fastest,...
Three Key Questions for Understanding Shifts in Global Poverty
LONDON, Feb 09 (IPS) – In 2010 and the following years, there was attention to the fact that much of global poverty had shifted...
Many Good Reasons to Eat More Pulses – And Perhaps Less Meat!
MADRID, Feb 09 (IPS) – Pulses and meat are both needed as part of your diet, however… While the total emissions of greenhouse gases...
From Zero Yield to Bumper Harvest
BLANTYRE, MALAWI, Feb 09 (IPS) – In the past, the people of Sande Village in Chikwawa district, Malawi, would go to bed with empty...
Dissolving the Tunisian body that deals with judicial independence, known as the High Judicial Council, is a “clear violation” of the country’s obligations under...
Severe drought threatens 13 million with hunger in Horn of Africa
An estimated 13 million people are waking up severely hungry every day in the Horn of Africa, as the region grapples with a major...
Can math stay human in the age of AI? 
World Lost More Than 7 Million Hectares of Forest in 2025 
Tiny implants can use the body itself to talk to each other 
Voyager 1 is nearly one light-day from Earth. What’s out there?