A way to snap molecules together like Legos wins 2022 chemistry Nobel
A tool kit for snapping together molecules like Lego building blocks has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Chemists Carolyn Bertozzi of Stanford...
Successful Climate Solutions Require Investment in the Lives of Adolescent Girls
WASHINGTON DC, Oct 05 (IPS) – This year commemorates the 10th anniversary of the International Day of the Girl Child. While the last decade...
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Former German chancellor Angela Merkel was named winner of the prestigious Nansen Award, for offering a haven to over 1.2 million refugees and asylum...
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The absence of a functioning government in Iraq one year after elections were held is hard to justify, the top UN official in the...
Women in Argentine Slum Confront Violence Together
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 04 (IPS) – The Padre Carlos Mugica neighborhood looks like another city within the Argentine capital, which most people usually see...
Pakistan: To avert ‘second wave of death’, UN raises funding appeal to $816 million
Battling what the top UN aid official in Pakistan has warned is a “second wave of death and destruction”, following catastrophic flooding since June...
‘Breathless’ explores COVID-19’s origins and other pandemic science
BreathlessDavid QuammenSimon & Schuster, $29.99 When COVID-19 burst onto the global stage in 2020, it was deadly and disruptive. In the first weeks of...
Some Coronaviruses Kill, While Others Cause a Common Cold. We Are Getting Closer to Knowing Why
BELLVILLE, South Africa, Oct 04 (IPS) – It’s hard to imagine a time when “coronavirus” wasn’t a household word. But for a long time,...
WHO chief voices concern over Trump Administration’s executive order on vaccines 
Cholera spreads across borders in West and Central Africa 
Sudan: Attacks and further displacement in Blue Nile and North Kordofan 
Migrant deaths climb sharply in 2026, new UN data shows