Heat-trapping asteroid dust may have incinerated the dinosaurs within hours
Within minutes of impact, debris began heating Earth’s atmosphere. Fine dust trapped that heat, potentially killing the dinosaurs quickly.
Hiroshima fosters hope, 81 years on from nuclear catastrophe
Eighty-one years ago on Thursday, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, reducing the city to ruins, killing tens of thousands of...
The Year of Pastoralists Must Be More Than Symbolic
WASHINGTON DC, August 6 (IPS) – This is supposed to be the year the world finally sees and recognizes pastoralists. The United Nations has...
Rohingya Refugees Seeking Safe Haven in Bangladesh Hit by Fresh Disasters
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, August 6 (IPS) – Abdu Rozork awoke suddenly to the sound of children screaming. Heavy monsoon rains had sent a landslide...
The UN rights chief expressed alarm on Wednesday over the sharp increase in executions and death sentences in Iran since the US-Israeli bombing campaign...
Russian forces hammered Ukraine with ballistic missiles and long-range drones overnight on Tuesday, killing at least 17 civilians – mainly around Kyiv – and...
An independent UN human rights expert has welcomed ongoing proceedings in the United States to extradite “manosphere” bloggers Andrew and Tristan Tate to the...
World News in Brief: Cambodia human rights, Hormuz invasive species risk, IOM lauds 2025 progress
Concluding his first official visit to Cambodia, UN independent human rights expert Tom Andrews said he was encouraged by the government’s cooperation but remained...
CHINA: ‘The Ethnic Unity Law Means There Is One Acceptable Way to Be Chinese’
CIVICUS speaks about China’s recently implemented Ethnic Unity Law with Gulchehra Hoja, a correspondent for Reporters Without Borders and a Uyghur activist and journalist...
Strengthening El Niño to push 49 million more people into acute hunger
Nearly 50 million more people in highly vulnerable communities globally are set to be pushed into acute hunger because of the strengthening El Niño...
‘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