Who gets to shape AI? UN debate centres on power, trust and inclusion
Artificial Intelligence or AI – and the technology behind it – is moving fast. The question being asked across the world is who gets...
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Lebanon: one in five children goes to bed hungry, says UNICEF
Four in five households in Lebanon struggle to afford basic necessities today, with children increasingly going without food, missing school and being pushed into...
Malaysia: UN agency urges safeguards after refugees returned to Myanmar
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has voiced concern over Malaysia’s decision to return 1,476 people to Myanmar amid an ongoing civil war and a...
UNGA81: UN Leaders Calls for Faster Action on Pandemic Preparedness
UNITED NATIONS, September 30 (IPS) – The United Nations High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) on September 25 called for faster...
New Ocean Report Warns of Rising Seas, Ocean Heat and Acidification
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, September 30 (IPS) – Fatuma Makame learned to farm seaweed in the shallow water where her parents worked. These days,...
A Stronger Future for Coffee Starts Where It Is Grown
ROME, September 30 (IPS) – Imagine your morning coffee. You smell the aroma as steam rises from the cup. It wisps and swirls, thins,...
What Faith Can Teach Agriculture
NEW YORK, September 30 (IPS) – Years ago, standing in a small farmer’s field in Haiti, I began to suspect that we had agriculture...
World News in Brief: Deadly Myanmar strikes as Malaysia begins deportations, new emergency funding released, Gaza and West Bank update
The UN chief on Tuesday strongly condemned an airstrike that reportedly killed at least 50 people at a market in Myanmar’s Rakhine state and...
BRICS: Growing Ambition, Zero Accountability
BRUSSELS, Belgium / MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, September 30 (IPS) – At the 18th BRICS Summit, held on 12 and 13 September in New Delhi, India’s...
Clean your plate – to reduce food loss and waste
Food waste is helping to fuel global warming, one half-eaten sandwich at a time. Read the full story, “Clean your plate – to reduce...
COP31: New Research Ties Extreme Weather to Mental Health Challenges in Africa 
The brain’s fear center moonlights as the save button for memories 
Europe’s Hera mission is ready to double down on asteroid science 
Gaza winter aid: ‘No more delay’, Fletcher tells governments stalling on support