Uganda must pay the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) $325 million in reparations related to the brutal conflict between the two nations from...
More than 30 years after the UN Compensation Commission (UNCC) was created to ensure restitution for Kuwait following the Iraqi invasion of 1990, the...
Homo sapiens may have reached Europe 10,000 years earlier than previously thought
Stone Age Homo sapiens began migrating into Europe much longer ago than has typically been assumed. Discoveries at a rock-shelter in southern France put...
Three Key Questions for Understanding Shifts in Global Poverty
LONDON, Feb 09 (IPS) – In 2010 and the following years, there was attention to the fact that much of global poverty had shifted...
Pro-rich Policies Buoy Billionaires Rise in India
NEW DELHI, Feb 09 (IPS) – If India ranks among the world’s fastest growing economies it is also where inequity is growing the fastest,...
From Zero Yield to Bumper Harvest
BLANTYRE, MALAWI, Feb 09 (IPS) – In the past, the people of Sande Village in Chikwawa district, Malawi, would go to bed with empty...
Many Good Reasons to Eat More Pulses – And Perhaps Less Meat!
MADRID, Feb 09 (IPS) – Pulses and meat are both needed as part of your diet, however… While the total emissions of greenhouse gases...
Weird ‘superionic’ matter could make up Earth’s inner core
A quirky material that behaves like a mishmash of liquid and solid could be hidden deep in the Earth. Computer simulations described in two...
How the Human Genome Project revolutionized understanding of our DNA
In October 1990, biologists officially embarked on one of the century’s most ambitious scientific efforts: reading the 3 billion pairs of genetic subunits —...
How one scientist aims to boost Black people’s representation in genetic datasets
Nearly two decades after researchers assembled the first genetic blueprint for human life, our understanding of our instruction manual has a dramatic and problematic...
Hunger is ‘an avoidable tragedy’ in a world of plenty: Türk 
UN condemns deadly wave of drone strikes in war-torn Sudan 
Guterres honours Indonesian troops who paid ‘ultimate sacrifice’ 
‘Season of fear’: Escalating Israeli attacks on West Bank olive farmers, deadly strikes on Gaza