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Edward Mukiibi, President, Slow Food. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS by Busani Bafana (turin, italy) Tuesday, October 08, 2024 Inter Press Service TURIN, Italy, Oct 08 (IPS) – Edward Mukiibi, President of Slow Food, champions agroecology as a transformative answer to the world’s most pressing crises: food insecurity, climate change, and violent conflicts. In a world where these challenges intersect, Mukiibi called for …

September 26th marks the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Credit: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)Darren Ornitz Opinion by Tariq Rauf (vienna, austria) Tuesday, October 08, 2024 Inter Press Service VIENNA, Austria, Oct 08 (IPS) – In recent years, the rhetoric, strategy and practice of nuclear deterrence has grown riskier, more urgent, more dangerous, less stable, …

The impact of an airstrike in Gaza that has reduced the Prep Boys A School in Khan Yunis to rubble. Credit: UNICEF/ FPF Geneva by Oritro Karim (united nations) Tuesday, October 08, 2024 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Oct 08 (IPS) – Over the past two months, the polio epidemic in Gaza has slowly mitigated due to response efforts by the …

Rate of forest loss last year remained 45 percent above levels needed to halt deforestation by 2030. Forests almost equivalent to the size of Ireland were destroyed in 2023, according to a new report that warns that the world is lagging behind targets aimed at ending deforestation. The Forest Declaration Assessment 2024, released on Tuesday, said that 6.37 million hectares …

According to many Republicans, America’s low birth rate and the resulting civilization crisis with its disastrous consequences for the country can squarely be blamed on America’s women in the child-bearing ages. Opinion by Joseph Chamie (portland, usa) Monday, October 07, 2024 Inter Press Service PORTLAND, USA, Oct 07 (IPS) – Countries around the world are experiencing low birth rates. In 2022, …

Biogas is a champion of sustainability, offering clean, renewable energy and helping to solve the organic waste problem by transforming it into biofuels, says Alex Enrich-Prast, a professor at universities in Brazil and Sweden. Credit: Mario Osava / IPS by Mario Osava (rio de janeiro) Monday, October 07, 2024 Inter Press Service RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 07 (IPS) – “I don’t …

Director Todd Phillips might have suffered something of a setback this past weekend, with his latest film, Joker: Folie à Deux cratering at the box office and attracting toxic audience response, but nevertheless, he’s still among the most successful filmmakers in the game. In fact, thanks to Folie à Deux’s $121 million global opening weekend haul, Phillips jumped a spot …

According to the Lebanese health ministry over 2,000 Lebanese have been killed and nearly 10,000 wounded since the start of Israel’s offensive against Hamas in Gaza a year ago. Israel intensified its bombing campaign across the whole of Lebanon following the killing of Hezbollah’s leader last month, and Iran’s ballistic missile assault on Israeli cities, in a bid to allow …

That day was in November 2023, around a month into the war in Gaza. Ala’a is among an estimated 155,000 pregnant women and new mothers in the Gaza Strip who for the past year have been forced to give birth under fire, in tents, while fleeing bombs and often without assistance, medication or even clean water. “The sound of the …

Joker: Folie à Deux and a selection of local Chinese titles powered the global IMAX network to a $19 million box office weekend. Warner Bros/DC’s sequel to 2019’s billion-dollar hit, filmed specifically for IMAX using IMAX Certified Cameras and featuring IMAX 1570 celluloid film screenings in select locations, made its debut, earning $10 million at the global IMAX box office. …