– Inter Press Service
MADRID, Jan 20 (IPS) – As if the 100 billion {dollars} that the USA has up to now offered to Ukraine in each weapons and support weren’t sufficient, the US has now began to put in in Europe its model new, extra harmful nuclear warheads.
– UN Information
– Inter Press Service
NABARNIZ, Spain, Jan 19 (IPS) – It is 23 hours a day in a cell with out pure gentle and only one to stroll round in a 7×4-metre courtyard. For Pablo González, an impartial Spanish-Russian journalist, it has been nearly a yr spent in solitary confinement in Poland.
– Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 19 (IPS) – United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is touring to South Africa, Zambia, and Senegal this week within the hopes of strengthening U.S.-Africa relations at a time of waning U.S. affect on the continent — the primary in a collection of Biden administration journeys introduced eventually month’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit.
– Inter Press Service
KARNATAKA, INDIA, Jan 19 (IPS) – The South Indian State of Karnataka has been reeling for the previous three years—the late arrival of monsoons, the surging temperatures, and drastic modifications within the climate patterns are placing the state’s farmers in dire straits.
– UN Information
Some two million individuals in Lebanon, together with 1.29 million Lebanese residents and 700,000 Syrian refugees, are struggling some type of meals insecurity because of the a number of crises afflicting the nation, with the scenario anticipated to worsen within the months forward, UN companies mentioned on Thursday.
– UN Information
Barring ladies and younger girls from school rooms in Afghanistan may wipe out enormous beneficial properties made in schooling and create “a misplaced technology”, the UN’s instructional and cultural group, UNESCO, has warned.
– UN Information
A South African courtroom has allowed a gaggle of UN-appointed consultants to intervene in a category motion lawsuit towards a mining firm based mostly in Zambia, the UN human rights workplace, OHCHR, reported on Thursday.
– UN Information
The UK’s plans to supply restricted immunity from prosecution to these accused of crimes throughout Northern Eire’s “Troubles” have been known as into query by UN rights chief Volker Türk.
– Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Japan, Jan 18 (IPS) – The Ukraine disaster that erupted in February final yr continues with no prospect for cessation. The intensified hostilities have inflicted nice struggling in inhabitants facilities and destroyed infrastructure services, compelling massive numbers of civilians, together with many kids and girls, to dwell in a state of fixed peril.