What Africa Expects of New WTO Chief Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
GENEVA, Mar 09 (IPS) – When on 15 February the chair of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) General Council, Ambassador David Walker of New...
Down in Hell
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 09 (IPS) – I am about 200 feet down a rickety old mine shaft, in the Ashanti gold mining region of...
Finds in a Spanish cave inspire an artistic take on warm-weather Neandertals
Here’s a scene guaranteed to melt the popular stereotype of Ice Age Neandertals as spear-wielding mammoth hunters confined to Eurasia’s frigid inner core. New...
A year after Australia’s wildfires, extinction threatens hundreds of species
When Isabel Hyman heads out in coming weeks to the wilds of northern New South Wales, she’s worried about what she won’t find. Fifteen...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 09 (IPS) – Developing country governments are being wrongly advised to use their modest fiscal resources to pay down...
The Ethics of AI to Ensure Food Security and Development
ROME, Mar 08 (IPS) – One year after the call for a group of international and religious organizations and important multinational companies to incorporate...
People fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can socialize without masks, CDC says
As the pace of coronavirus vaccinations picks up, normal life is looking tantalizingly in reach. Nearly a year after the World Health Organization declared...
Worlds Worst Humanitarian Disaster Triggered by Deadly Weapons from US & UK
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 08 (IPS) – The United Nations has rightly described the deaths and devastation in war-ravaged Yemen as the “world’s worst humanitarian...
A sea slug’s detached head can crawl around and grow a whole new body
Losing your body from the neck down can be just another one of life’s annoying, but temporary, setbacks — at least for two kinds...
SEOUL, Republic of Korea, Mar 08 (IPS) – The following opinion piece is part of series to mark the upcoming International Women’s Day, March...
Coordinated action on clean air and climate change can net $15 for every dollar spent 
Human rights chief Türk renews call for end to spiralling Sudan war 
AI: Türk urges action before it becomes an ‘existential risk to humanity’ 
UNGA 81: A United Nations at a Turning Point