The COVID-19 vaccine may offer brain cancer patients a surprise benefit
A recent shot of the COVID-19 vaccine doubled survival time in glioblastoma patients who had undergone tumor biopsy or surgery.
First Person: Syrians lead efforts to clear rubble and rebuild lives
Communities in Syria are clearing rubble and rebuilding neighbourhoods and livelihoods torn down in the more than a decade of conflict and crisis in...
Western-Led Green Revolution Failing Africa
CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA / KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, August 17 (IPS) – As AGRA turns 20, a new report exposes its worsening failure to double...
International Criminal Court Under Attack
LONDON, August 17 (IPS) – In a recent Wall Street Journal piece, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio pledged to ‘dismantle’ the International Criminal...
The grass beneath our feet: Why rangelands matter
In northern Kenya, a herder scans the sky for rain that hasn’t come. The grass his animals need is thinning by the day. Read...
Former rebel fighters join campaign against Ebola in the DR Congo
Demobilised former combatants are actively joining the fight against Ebola by participating in public information campaigns in the east of the Democratic Republic of...
900 obstacles and counting: West Bank families trapped as aid access shrinks
Humanitarians continue to provide life-saving assistance to people across the Occupied Palestinian Territory despite facing obstacles such as checkpoints, instability and access restrictions, the...
‘Ebola is winning’: Epidemic now killing one person every 30 minutes
The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – the fastest-growing on record and on track to become the deadliest...
‘Warned but not protected’: Four in ten adults in England ignore heat alerts
As amber heat-health alerts spread across England this summer, a new study has found that the warnings are being received – but not changing...
Meth trafficking across Middle East becoming more advanced, UNODC warns
Authorities in Iran intercepted 3,663 kilogrammes of methamphetamines headed for Europe and the Persian Gulf in the first quarter of 2026, according to the...
‘Don’t give up’: Syrian women’s ongoing search for the missing 
Repression of political opposition surges in post-election Zambia 
World News in Brief: US-Iran war intensifies, aid for Myanmar, casualties in Ukraine 
Africa Has the Answers to Its Food Security Challenges. What It Needs Is the Architecture to Act on Them