Demonstrators call for a ban on nuclear weapons. Credit: ICAN/Tim Wright by Thalif Deen (united nations) Thursday, March 06, 2025 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Mar 06 (IPS) – The United Nations, whose primary mandate is to maintain international peace and security, has been one of the longstanding leaders in the global campaign for a world without nuclear weapons. But the …
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The Palestinian militant group will be destroyed if the remaining hostages are not released, the US president said Hamas must release the remaining Israeli hostages or face certain destruction, US President Donald Trump has warned. He issued the threat after talks about further prisoner swaps between Israel and the Palestinian armed group reportedly stalled. “Release all of the Hostages now, …
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A portrait of Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned PKK leader, looms over the Qandil Mountains, the group’s stronghold in Iraqi Kurdistan. In 1998, a year before his capture, the guerrillas relocated their bases here from Syria’s Bekaa Valley. Credit: Karlos Zurutuza/IPS by Karlos Zurutuza (rome) Wednesday, March 05, 2025 Inter Press Service ROME, Mar 05 (IPS) – “The PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) …
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Nasir Haji, a sponge farmer, cleans sponges in the Indian Ocean. Credit: Kizito Makoye/IPS by Kizito Makoye (jambiani, zanzibar) Wednesday, March 05, 2025 Inter Press Service JAMBIANI, Zanzibar, Mar 05 (IPS) – In the early morning, as the tide pulls away, Zulfa Abdallah ties her scarf tightly around her head. She adjusts her goggles, places a snorkel across her forehead, and …
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Esiri Erheriene-Essi and her painting The Birthday Party. Photo credit: AM/SWAN by SWAN (brussels) Tuesday, March 04, 2025 Inter Press Service BRUSSELS, Mar 04 (IPS) – It’s like walking through several psychedelic halls of history, where bold colours, electrifying compositions and contagious rhythms hit the senses all at once. This is When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in …
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Source: United Nations. Opinion by Joseph Chamie (portland, us) Tuesday, March 04, 2025 Inter Press Service PORTLAND, US, Mar 04 (IPS) – As the world’s population increased five-fold since the start of the 20th century, the changes in the geographic distribution of the billions of people across the planet have been ongoing and significant. Those continuing changes in the distribution of …
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COP16 in Rome, February 2025. Credit: Vatican News Opinion by Caroline Delgado (stockholm, sweden) Monday, March 03, 2025 Inter Press Service STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Mar 03 (IPS) – With global temperatures continuing to break records and every global indicator of the health of the natural world showing decline, the need to quickly move away from fossil fuels and environmentally destructive practices has …
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Tulia Akson, Tanzanian Parliament Speaker and President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) at a recent meeting organized by Asian and African Parliamentarians. Credit: Kizito Makoye/IPS by Kizito Makoye (dar es salaam) Monday, March 03, 2025 Inter Press Service DAR ES SALAAM, Mar 03 (IPS) – Speaker of the Tanzanian Parliament and President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Tulia Akson, has called …
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by Thalif Deen (united nations) Monday, March 03, 2025 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Mar 03 (IPS) – The United Nations, in its nearly 80-year-old history, is on the verge of fighting for its survival, as the Trump administration continues with its threats to drastically cut funding and pull out of several UN agencies which provide mostly humanitarian assistance worldwide. Elon …
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The Holy Bible, Trump Edition: “They shall beat their swords into nine irons.” Credit: Shutterstock. Opinion by Peter Costantini (seattle, usa) Friday, February 28, 2025 Inter Press Service SEATTLE, USA, Feb 28 (IPS) – Like any self-respecting don of a powerful crime family, Donald Trump – AKA “Don the Con” – always gets a taste of any action going down on …
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