UN chief ‘deeply concerned’ at reported air strikes on Tigray capital
The United Nations has received alarming reports of aerial attacks in the residential areas of Tigray’s capital, Mekelle, on Monday morning local time. Read the full story, “UN chief ‘deeply...
Gender-based violence, hate speech and disinformation are being used extensively online and offline, to chill or kill women’s freedom of expression, an independent UN...
The decision by the Taliban leadership to support the resumption of house-to-house polio vaccination across Afghanistan has been welcomed by the World Health Organization...
Football legend Didier Drogba on Monday was named the World Health Organization’s (WHO) new Goodwill Ambassador for Sport and Health. Read the full story, “Football star Didier Drogba signs with WHO,...
Hamburgers and Climate Change
PORTLAND, USA, Oct 18 (IPS) – Probably no country is more closely associated with the hamburger than the United States. It’s fair to say...
What Fate for Three Billion of Humans Who Are Born Equals?
MADRID, Oct 18 (IPS) – While more than a third of all purchased food is wasted in rich, mostly Western States, and a similar...
We Will Never Give Up the Slavery Reparations Fight, say Caribbean Rastafarians
DOMINICA, Oct 18 (IPS) – The Rastafarian organizations in the Caribbean are determined that the issue of slavery reparations will emerge from the eclipse...
COVID-19 testing in schools works. So why aren’t more doing it?
In August 2020, the school superintendent in Omaha, Neb., approached a microbiology lab at the local university’s medical center. School districts across the country...
An atomic clock measured how general relativity warps time across a millimeter
A millimeter might not seem like much. But even a distance that small can alter the flow of time. According to Einstein’s theory of...
TRONDHEIM, Norway / DENVER, USA, Oct 18 (IPS) – As we honored women and girls last week, on the annual International Day of Rural...
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