The country, commonly known as North Korea, attempted to fire off its first military reconnaissance satellite earlier that day but it crashed into the sea, according to media reports. The DPRK has reportedly pledged to conduct another launch after it learns what went wrong. The UN chief noted that any…
The draconian law foresees the application of the death penalty and long prison sentences for consensual sex between adults. Non-discrimination principle Mr. Guterres called on Uganda to fully respect its international human rights obligations, “in particular the principle of non-discrimination and the respect for personal privacy”, irrespective of sexual orientation…
Opinion by Diana Gutierrez (united nations) Wednesday, May 31, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, May 31 (IPS) – A few weeks ago we celebrated the Girls in ICT Day and I am wondering how can we keep moving the digital equality needle so that more women out of the 259…
EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBER+MEMBER INTERVIEW — On the same day that a group of industry leaders warned of the “risk of extinction” that stems from unbridled artificial intelligence, Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA) sat down for a wide-ranging interview with The Cipher Brief about its effects on war-fighting, autonomous weaponry, and why a Geneva Convention for…
Comment on this storyComment What was once a school’s dormitory in the Guyanese city of Mahdia became a barren landscape of charred concrete and ash after a blaze ripped through it on May 21. Twenty children perished in, or died after, the fire that began shortly before midnight. Prosecutors say…
Comment on this storyComment LULEA, Sweden — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday urged Turkey to take immediate action on Sweden’s bid to join NATO, saying there was no reason for further delay in bolstering the trans-Atlantic alliance at a time of profound tension with Russia. Blinken, speaking to…
In a rare attack deep inside Russian territory, at least two residential buildings in Moscow were hit by drones Tuesday morning, Moscow’s mayor said on Telegram. No one was seriously injured, the mayor said. Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed without providing evidence that Ukraine was behind the drone strikes, which it…
Student evacuees from Sudan wait to return to Nigeria. Credit: Handout by Abdullahi Jimoh (abuja) Tuesday, May 30, 2023 Inter Press Service ABUJA, May 30 (IPS) – Seven weeks after the bloody conflict in Khartoum, Sudan started, and 41 days after the Nigerian government began the evacuation of residents studying there,…
WFP’s Country Director in Sudan, Eddie Rowe, told reporters in Geneva that in a major breakthrough, the agency distributed food assistance to 15,000 people in both Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) controlled areas of Omdurman, part of the Khartoum metropolitan area, beginning on Saturday. Speaking from…
WMO warned on Tuesday that glaciers and ice sheet melt in Greenland and Antarctica accounts for some 50 per cent of sea level rise, which is accelerating, with disastrous impacts on small island developing states (SIDS) and densely populated coastal areas. Glacier melt The average thickness of the world’s glaciers…
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