Attacking a nuclear plant ‘suicidal,’ UN chief tells journalists in Japan
UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned a recent attack on a nuclear power station in southern Ukraine during a meeting in Tokyo on Monday with...
The UN sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, is leading efforts to protect women and girls’ rights to give birth safely and live without...
The UN labour agency, ILO, says it is becoming increasingly concerned about working conditions in Iraq, where temperatures have soared to 50 degrees Celsius...
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination opened in Geneva on Monday to review anti-discrimination efforts being done in seven UN Member States....
Security Council examines capacity building for sustaining peace in Africa
Greater investment in State institutions is critical to counter peace and security challenges in Africa, a senior UN official told the Security Council on...
Bringing Specialist Telemedicine to Children of Rural Kenya
Nairobi, Aug 08 (IPS) – New telemedicine technology, Daktari Smart, aims to mitigate the gap between child patients and medical specialists in rural Kenya....
Of the Far West, the ‘Good Cowboys’ And the Bad Indians
MADRID, Aug 08 (IPS) – Nothing –or too little– has changed since Hollywood started producing its spectacular western movies. Rough men, ranchers, mercenary killers,...
Scientists mapped dark matter around galaxies in the early universe
Scientists have mapped out the dark matter around some of the earliest, most distant galaxies yet. The 1.5 million galaxies appear as they were...
Mini-Neptunes may become super-Earths as the exoplanets lose their atmospheres
Mini-Neptunes and super-Earths may have a lot more in common than just being superlatives. Four gaseous exoplanets, each a bit smaller than Neptune, seem...
From the Field: Outreach across the Horn of Africa
In July, a UN human rights officer embarked on an outreach visit to the Horn of Africa’s Sool and Sanaag regions, a seven-day round-trip...
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