Credit: Education Cannot Wait Opinion by Heike Kuhn (bonn, germany) Wednesday, October 04, 2023 Inter Press Service BONN, Germany, Oct 04 (IPS) – Once a year, on October 5, we celebrate World Teachers’ Day. Why is it so important to have a closer look on the teaching profession? What is so special about being a teacher nowadays? World Teachers’ Day is …
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President Biden‘s pooch, Commander, is in the doghouse … he’s been booted from the White House amid an alarming number of biting incidents. The Bidens’ 2-year-old German Shepherd is reported to have chomped down on way more than the 11 incidents the Secret Service acknowledges … it’s said Commander is not only biting agents but also folks who work around …
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Source: U.S. American Community Survey, 2021 and Census Bureau, 1960. Opinion by Joseph Chamie (portland, usa) Wednesday, October 04, 2023 Inter Press Service PORTLAND, USA, Oct 04 (IPS) – America’s immigration has reached record-breaking levels having weighty consequences domestically and internationally. Based on the Census Bureau’s 2023 Current Population Survey, the estimated number of foreign-born residents in the United States as …
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This 14-year-old Ugandan girl was forced into marriage by her parents at 8 years old. Credit: UNICEF/Stuart Tibaweswa Opinion by Nandita Bajaj (st paul, minnesota, usa) Wednesday, October 04, 2023 Inter Press Service ST PAUL, Minnesota, USA, Oct 04 (IPS) – There’s an insidious new tactic emerging for selling right-wing ideology to wider audiences, evident in last month’s Budapest Demographic Summit …
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Kalkani Choolburra, Aboriginal Programs Coordinator at the Botanic Gardens of Sydney, showing the many uses of native plants. Here, she is weaving with a Lomandra leaf. Credit: Neena Bhandari/IPS by Neena Bhandari (sydney) Tuesday, October 03, 2023 Inter Press Service SYDNEY, Oct 03 (IPS) – Growing up in Sydney, Kalkani Choolburra, a Girramay, Kuku Yalanji, Kalkadoon and Pitta Pitta woman from …
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On Monday 15 May 2023, the Member States of IOM elected Ms. Amy Pope as its new Director General. Opinion by Lansana Gberie (geneva, switzerland) Tuesday, October 03, 2023 Inter Press Service GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct 03 (IPS) – On 14 June, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) issued his flagship annual report, Global Trends: Forced Displacement 2022. It states that …
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The Mbeubeus dumpsite in Dakar, Senegal, where Practical Action, an international organisation is helping the communities phase out open burning of waste. Credit: Practical Action. by Robert Kibet (nairobi) Monday, October 02, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Oct 02 (IPS) – With the African continent recycling less than 11 percent of its waste, COP28 provided leaders on the African continent to …
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Joce zerojack/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Alfonso Ribeiro and his family made a big lifestyle change after one of his sons faced a health issue. “We live a completely non-toxic life where we don’t eat any sugar, gluten-free, corn-free, dairy-free, oats-free, anything that makes you swollen, we typically stay away from,” Ribeiro, 52, told host Tamron Hall on the Monday, October 2, episode …
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Kentaste is a local company reviving the coconut industry along the Kenya coast. (Photo courtesy of Joanne Muchai) Opinion by James Michel (victoria, seychelles) Monday, October 02, 2023 Inter Press Service VICTORIA, Seychelles, Oct 02 (IPS) – Everyone knows that small island states are on the frontline of global warming. Rising sea levels, acidification destroying fisheries and coral reefs, and changing …
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More than 170 people were killed and over 200 more injured, many with grievous burns and in a critical condition, in an explosion at a crowded fuel depot along the route taken by those entering Armenia last Monday. ‘Heart-breaking’ scenes WHO Special Envoy Robb Butler, who visited a burns treatment centre in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, described the suffering as …
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