UN-appointed independent human rights experts on Friday called on Irish authorities to provide adequate redress for victims of racial discrimination and system racism in Irish...
A World of One Billion Empty Plates
MADRID, Sep 23 (IPS) – Have you eaten today – or are sure you will? The answer depends on where you were born and...
Women Advocates for Harvesting Rainwater in Salinity-Affected Coastal Bangladesh
KHULNA, Bangladesh, Sep 23 (IPS) – Like many other women in Bangladesh’s salinity-prone coastal region, Lalita Roy had to travel a long distance every...
Here is the first direct look at Neptune’s rings in more than 30 years
Humankind is seeing Neptune’s rings in a whole new light thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. In an infrared image released September 21,...
Has AlphaFold actually solved biology’s protein-folding problem?
As people around the world marveled in July at the most detailed pictures of the cosmos snapped by the James Webb Space Telescope, biologists...
Collectively, “we must address…the fundamental imbalances in the world we share,” Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said on Thursday, calling for global “climate solidarity”...
LONDON / EDINBURG, Sep 23 (IPS) – As the devastating images of flooding in Pakistan went round the world and the country declared a...
Warring parties in South Sudan are committed to implementing a peace deal that has improved security in the country, Vice-President Hussein Abdelbagi Akol Agany...
Mia Amor Motley, the Prime Minister of Barbados, urged world leaders to “use the power of the pen” and impose natural disaster and pandemic...
Redouble efforts to end ‘senseless’ war in Ukraine, UN chief tells Foreign Ministers
With the war in Ukraine showing no signs of letting up, countries must increase efforts to prevent further escalation and end the fighting, UN...
Abyei: Deadly drone strikes mark ‘new and concerning’ threat, UN peacekeeping chief warns 
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