GENEVA, Oct 12 (IPS) – Since Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military draft on September 21st aiming to mobilise around 300,000 Russian men...
Reform Needed As Big Business, Not Vulnerable Communities Benefit from Post-Pandemic Support
BRATISLAVA, Oct 12 (IPS) – Governments and international financial institutions must adopt new ways of providing post-pandemic support, say campaigners after a report found...
Fifty-four countries that are home to more than half of the poorest people on the planet need urgent debt relief now, the UN Development...
Climate change: WMO report urges faster action on transition to clean energy
The UN weather agency issued an urgent appeal on Tuesday for governments everywhere to switch to cleaner forms of energy, such as solar, wind...
DR Congo sees deadly surge in intercommunal violence
More than 140 people have been killed in horrific intercommunal violence in the west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The UN...
Guterres: UN-African Union partnership a ‘cornerstone of multilateralism’
Cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union (AU) is stronger than ever, however major challenges remain, Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security...
The UN General Assembly elected a dozen new countries on Thursday to serve on the Human Rights Council, while Germany and Sudan secured second...
NASA’s DART mission successfully shoved an asteroid
It worked! Humanity has, for the first time, purposely moved a celestial object. As a test of a potential asteroid-deflection scheme, NASA’s DART spacecraft...
The James Webb Space Telescope spied the earliest born stars yet seen
Some of the earliest stars yet seen are now coming to light in one of the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope....
Migrants in Libya who are compelled to accept so-called ‘assisted returns’ to their countries of origin often find themselves as victims of widespread and...
Abyei: Deadly drone strikes mark ‘new and concerning’ threat, UN peacekeeping chief warns 
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Two new Ebola vaccines to join DR Congo clinical trial 
Children at risk as war zone attacks on water and sanitation more than triple