UN Banks on Water as the Game Changer in Food Production and Consumption
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 29 (IPS) – As the United Nations prepares for its solutions-based Global Food Systems Summit in September, officials say resolving issues...
WASHINGTON, Apr 30 (IPS) – The writer is CPJ Washington Advocacy Manager 3 May is World Press Freedom Day. This is part of...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Apr 30 (IPS) – The writer is Co-Editor, Jadaliyya, www.jadaliyya.com, an independent ezine produced by the Arab Studies Institute based in...
Little Foot’s shoulders hint at how a human-chimp common ancestor climbed
Little Foot, a nearly complete hominid skeleton painstakingly excavated from rock inside a South African cave, shouldered a powerful evolutionary load. This 3.67-million-year-old adult...
An 89-year-old pianist who escaped the Holocaust in Nazi Germany almost eight decades ago, has been explaining how he started playing jazz in memory...
The Day UN Buried its Report Focusing on Apartheid in Israel
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 30 (IPS) – When the UN’s Beirut-based Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), released a landmark 2017 report on...
People working in the petroleum industry or living near petroleum facilities are at increased risk of developing several different cancer types, according to a...
An unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar, an island State off the East African coast in the Indian Ocean, is forcing hundreds of thousands to...
Just over 460 days since the first COVID-19 cases were reported in Europe, more citizens living in the region have now been vaccinated, than the...
A “complex and unpredictable security situation” in Tigray continues to impede the delivery of life-saving assistance to Ethiopia’s northern region, the Deputy UN Spokesperson...
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