Heavy rains and flooding in Yemen have affected at least 28,000 people, according to initial estimates released by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)...
China Struggles with Socio-environmental Standards in Latin America
MEXICO CITY, Aug 04 (IPS) – In southeast Mexico, work on the Yucatan Solar Park, owned by the Chinese company Jinko Solar, has been...
A lunar magnetic field may have lasted for only a short time
A lunar magnetic field may not have just been short-lived; it may have persisted for only a blip in geologic time, a new study...
COVID-19 infections have continued to rise globally for more than a month now, with over four million cases reported in the past week alone, the UN health agency said on...
A bounty of potential gravitational wave events hints at exciting possibilities
A new crew of potential ripples in spacetime has just debuted — emphasis on the word “potential.” By loosening the criteria for what qualifies...
Snake-eating spiders are surprisingly common
A spider’s typical dinner menu might include insects, worms or even small lizards and frogs (SN: 2/3/21). But some arachnids have more adventurous tastes...
Daphne Caruana Galizia’s Family Hope ‘Lessons are Learnt’ to Protect Investigative Journalists
BRATISLAVA, Aug 03 (IPS) – BRATISLAVA, August 2 (IPS) – The family of slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has called for “lessons to be...
Beirut’s youth rebuild the Lebanese capital, brick by brick
Young people in Beirut, which was devastated by an explosion in a warehouse at the city’s port on 4 August 2020, have been pitching...
Multilateral Peace Operations in 2020: Developments & Trends
STOCKHOLM / THE HAGUE, Aug 04 (IPS) – The writer is a Researcher with the Peace Operations and Conflict Management Programme at the Stockholm...
Secretary-General António Guterres has urged the Iraqi authorities to swiftly implement a new law to assist Yazidi survivors of ISIL atrocities, the UN said...
Light is hard to block from every direction. This physicist found a way 
Egypt: Fact-checking site’s entire newsroom jailed as assault on press freedom widens 
Nearly 64,000 flee Nigeria for Niger where a humanitarian crisis is deepening 
Ebola: IOM urges wider surveillance beyond formal routes in DR Congo