United States President Joe Biden’s proposal to raise the target for refugee resettlement there in the coming fiscal year to 125,000 people, has been...
LETHBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 21 (IPS) – Why is the UN holding a Food Systems Summit? Two issues that need discussion at the international leadership...
When Mexican scientist Luis Miramontes signed his lab notebook on October 15, 1951, he didn’t know he was documenting history. That day, he made...
A crucial number that rules the universe goes big in a strange quantum material. The fine-structure constant is about 10 times its normal value...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sep 21 (IPS) – As developing countries struggle to cope with the pandemic, they risk being set back further by restrictive...
“We will continue to stand in solidarity with all victims of terrorism. They will not be forgotten”: that was the message from UN Counter-Terrorism chief Vladimir Voronkov on Monday, at a...
Elementary school–age children may soon be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German biotech company partner BioNTech reported September...
Despite the economic devastation wrought by COVID-19, the new technology sector continued to thrive and prosper last year, the UN’s intellectual property agency said...
The Gilgamesh Dream Tablet – one of the oldest surviving literary works in history – is to be returned to Iraq by the United...
Speaking alongside the UK Prime Minister in New York on Monday the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has called on world leaders for “decisive action now to avert...