From energy crisis to energy transition: How renewables are reshaping energy security
The continuing conflict in the Middle East is disrupting global energy markets and pushing up fuel prices, with knock-on effects far beyond the region....
Sudan tells UN: No imposed solutions to country’s conflict
Sudan’s Foreign Minister addressed the UN General Assembly on Monday in place of de facto head of state General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, whose visa...
‘Ballot must replace the bullets’, South Sudan tells General Assembly ahead of elections
South Sudan remains committed to holding general elections in December to conclude its transition period, the country’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Cecilia...
DPR Korea tells UN its nuclear status is ‘irreversible’, rejects outside pressure
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) told the UN General Assembly on Monday that its status as a nuclear-armed State was irreversible, arguing...
UN leaders renew push to defeat racism, 25 years after Durban
“No country is free of racism.” That warning from US youth activist Marley Dias set the tone on Monday as UN Member States reinvigorated...
LIVE: World leaders take stock of global fight against racism
World leaders are meeting in the General Assembly to assess how far the world has come in combating racism and how far it still...
Security Council LIVE: Ambassadors meet as West Bank tensions rise, Gaza plan stalls
The Security Council meets at 10am with the prospects for peace in the Middle East under strain on two fronts. In the West Bank,...
DR Congo Ebola emergency: Calls grow for urgent humanitarian access
Aid teams trying to keep deadly Ebola disease from spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are increasingly concerned about ongoing fighting...
Rohingya Camps: Children in Frontline of Food Rationing Crisis
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, September 28 (IPS) – For Mohammed Dullah, recent cuts in UN food rations for Rohingya and other refugees in Bangladesh are...
Pension Peril Among Populations
PORTLAND, USA, September 28 (IPS) – Dozens of government-funded pension programs providing benefits to hundreds of millions of men and women face growing fiscal...
‘This is not about politics. This is about people’: UN warns of impact of deadly drone strikes in Sudan 
The UAE’s Great Leap: Building the City of the Future 
Earwax’s surprisingly slippery but sticky properties deters insects 
Food contains thousands of overlooked chemicals. This physicist is mapping them