GENEVA, Sep 07 (IPS) – Afghanistan is where history has taken it! The Trump-Taliban “Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan,” signed on 29 February...
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Bukele’s Failed Bitcoin Experiment in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, Sep 07 (IPS) – A year after Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele decided to make El Salvador the first country where bitcoin is...
As fighting continues in South Sudan, a new UN report released on Tuesday documents 173 civilian deaths over a four-month period along with widespread...
Denied decent work opportunities and highly vulnerable to systemic shocks such as pandemics or economic downturns, workers in Asia and the Pacific are under...
Sri Lanka is at a critical juncture and the new Government must make progress on accountability as well as institutional and security sector reforms,...
Following conflict and election-related violence in Papua New Guinea, more than 15,000 people have been internally displaced in Hela, Southern Highlands and Enga provinces,...
Ukraine: Guterres calls for ‘safety’ and ‘security’ of Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Briefing the Security Council on Tuesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres again underlined the need to de-escalate the situation around the embattled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power...
Somalia is at a “tipping point”, with hundreds of thousands of people at immediate risk of famine, the heads of the UN’s highest-level humanitarian...
Afghanistan: A Treasure Worth More than a Trillion Dollars
MADRID, Sep 06 (IPS) – Both mainstream media, international bodies and human rights defenders continue to rightly denounce the Taliban’s inhuman abuses against the...
HAMILTON, Canada, Sep 06 (IPS) – Monsoon flooding has occurred often in Pakistan but never to the catastrophic extent presently happening. A distinguishing feature...
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