Europe’s Catastrophic Flooding Was Forecast Well in Advance – What Went So Wrong?
Jul 22 (IPS) – Almost 200 people dead and many others still missing. Billions of euros’ worth of damage. Communities devastated. Thousands of homes...
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KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jul 23 (IPS) – Following the Supreme Court’s decision to reinstall the House of Representatives and appoint– after a prolonged and nasty...
Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing global climate, water-related hazards top the list of natural disasters with the highest human losses in the...
Lifesaving assistance arrived for the beleaguered Tigray region of Ethiopia on Thursday as the first UN World Food Programme (WFP) plane carrying humanitarian workers touched down in the capital Mekelle. Read...
COVID-19: Africa ‘third wave’ not yet over, while vaccine inequity threatens all
Although new COVID-19 cases in Africa have slowed following an eight-week surge, this “small step forward” could be short-lived, the Regional Office of the...
The head of the UN food relief agency called on the world’s richest nations on Thursday to invest more in sustainable living, to feed...
Nearly half of the 1.7 million children worldwide living with HIV were not on treatment last year, the UN programme leading the global fight against...
Rwandan Farmers Pin Hopes on New Tech to Tackle Food Losses
KIGALI, Rwanda, Jul 22 (IPS) – Rwanda is trying to reduce post-harvest loss by relying on new technologies to increase the amount of food...
Its Time To Reopen Primary Schools in India
Jul 22 (IPS) – “The government should open schools, even if it’s for an hour, to facilitate some student-teacher interaction. Most teachers feel that...
NEW YORK, Jul 22 (IPS) – Professor Azza Karam is Secretary General, Religions for Peace UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believes “our solidarity based...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
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