CABACEIRAS, Brazil, Nov 11 2024 (IPS) - The small community of Ribeira stands out in the Northeast, the poorest region of ...

When the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, orbited the Earth in 1963, there were only three active Earth ...

The year 2024 is on track to be the warmest year on record, contributed by an extended streak of high monthly global mean temperatures.

In Benin, college graduates struggle to find formalized work. Educated young people find themselves involved in hustle ...

BAKU, Nov 15 2024 (IPS) - The United States just went through its most consequential election. While the outcome raises questions about what the re-election of Trump means for U.S. engagement in ...

For religious, humanitarian, and scientific reasons, Israel’s increasingly apparent plan for the de facto colonization of the ...

On December 12, 2022, a group of Azerbaijani environmentalists blocked the only road connecting Armenia with the ...

Climate change continues to pose an existential threat to humanity. Recent science estimates that we may have less than six ...

A small incident in the mounting mayhem of the 2024 elections crystalized the state of the dark art of politics in these ...

So extreme are gender inequalities in South Sudan that a young girl is three times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than to reach the eighth grade – the last grade before high school – ...

Three years have elapsed since the collapse of Rana Plaza, Savar, on a fine morning of April 24, 2013. The disaster, one of the deadliest in the world's industrial history in two centuries, claimed ...

Twenty-seven years after South Africa’s first democratic elections, the country finds itself reflecting on the catalysts of a week of looting and destruction of property resulting in more than 200 ...