U.S.-Iran War Escalates Amid Growing Fears of Regional Instability and Rises In Arbitrary Executions
UNITED NATIONS, August 3 (IPS) – Over the past several weeks, the humanitarian landscape in the Middle East has deteriorated significantly, exacerbated by escalating...
Accepting What It Cannot Control, CARICOM Focuses on What It Can
GROS ISLET, Saint Lucia , August 3 (IPS) – From wars that drive up fuel prices to supply chain disruptions, inflation and increasingly frequent...
Female Genital Mutilation: Winning the Argument, Losing the Funding
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, August 3 (IPS) – Last August, a one-month-old girl in The Gambia bled to death after being subjected to female genital mutilation...
Naked mole-rat queens rule their colonies with a potent odor
A compound made only by breeding queens keeps naked mole-rat colonies infertile and free of conflict.
‘Cheating’ birds change their tune
Female pied flycatchers can tell whether a male is paired or not based on song differences. Mated males sing shorter songs and repeat syllables...
Rohingya Repatriation: A Roadmap Without a Road
VANCOUVER B.C., Canada, August 3 (IPS) – The Rohingya crisis remains one of the most enduring humanitarian and political failures in South and Southeast...
Who picks up the tab for AI’s unbridled genius?
ROME, August 3 (IPS) – For the last few years, Artificial intelligence has been making increasingly intrusive demands for our attention. It burst onto...
Trapped by a Facebook job advert, freed by a stranger in a taxi
Sofia* was 27, raising her seven-year-old son alone in Venezuela, and running out of options. For years she had distributed personal hygiene products door...
Recovery in Ukraine, one life at a time
In classrooms, maternity wards, hospital corridors and local communities across Ukraine, people are rebuilding their lives despite the ongoing war. Read the full story,...
As much of the world faces grapples with above normal temperatures and major rainfall changes, the UN Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Friday that...
‘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