Lebanese ‘deserve the truth’ over deadly port blast: Guterres
One of the UN Secretary-General’s most prominent stops during the second day of his visit to crisis-hit Lebanon was the port of Beirut, where...
COP26 Agreed Rules on Trading Carbon Emissions But Theyre Fatally Flawed
Dec 20 (IPS) – One surprise from COP26 – the latest UN climate change conference in Glasgow – was an agreement between world leaders...
MADRID, Dec 20 (IPS) – A bit of fiction. Or maybe not. If things keep going the way they are, the result will be...
Reports of “utter devastation” caused by Super Typhoon Rai have continued to come in from the Philippines, where the UN is helping respond to...
Roughly 7.7 million people in Somalia will need assistance and protection in 2022, a 30 per cent rise in just one year, the UN...
Quest for Asian Innovation & Solutions in a Networked World
NEW YORK, Dec 20 (IPS) – The UN’s 76th anniversary in 2021 arrived at a time of great upheaval and change. If the world...
Ecuador and the Pandora Papers: Death Threats and Impunity
MEXICO CITY, Dec 20 (IPS) – In a ceremony in early October, the president of Ecuador and my opponent in the presidential elections, Guillermo...
BANGKOK, Thailand, Dec 20 (IPS) – Countries in the Asia-Pacific region are trying their best to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic by rapidly rolling...
Green Gas: Energy as a By-Product of Sugarcane in Brazil
NARANDIBA, Brazil, Dec 20 (IPS) – First came sugar. For four centuries, it was the main sugarcane product in Brazil. But since the 1970s...
Here are 7 incredible things we learned this year that animals can do
This year, animals of all shapes and sizes surprised us with amazing abilities we didn’t know they had. From powerlifting to walking on the...
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