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Humanity faces four defining "tests of power" - around war or peace, inequality, climate change and AI - that will determine whether the world moves towards a new era of cooperation or deeper division, the UN chief warned the General Assembly on ...

KIGALI, Rwanda, September 22 (IPS) - Africa is emerging as the world's fastest-growing technology market, with its innovation ecosystem attracting increasing global investment. The European Investment Bank's recent 40 million commitment to the sector ...

UNITED NATIONS, September 22 (IPS) - On September 16, at the lead-up to the 81st UN General Assembly, Equality in Family Law (GCEFL), Equality Now, TrustLaw, and the World Bank Group convened in New York City for the event titled The Gender Equality ...

UNITED NATIONS, September 21 (IPS) - When Yasser Arafat was denied a US visa for his second visit to New York to address the United Nations back in 1988, the General Assembly defied the United States by temporarily moving the UN's highest policy ...

LONDON, September 21 (IPS) - Sudan's civil war grinds on. It's close to three and a half years since the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia began their battle for supremacy, and the two forces and their allies ...

SYDNEY, September 21 (IPS) - The UN General Assembly will soon vote - most likely favourably - on Bangladesh's request to postpone the country's graduation from the UN's Least Developed Country (LDC) category, currently scheduled for November this .. ...

UNITED NATIONS, September 18 (IPS) - Urbanization can help concentrate jobs, services, and investments; however, it can also concentrate unaffordable housing, insecure employment, and unequal exposure to contamination and environmental threats. A ...

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, September 18 (IPS) - Migrants now send home more money than foreign aid, and this is pulling rural families out of poverty, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

NAIROBI, Kenya, September 18 (IPS) - For the young women I met through Global Give Back Circle's HER Lab in Kenya, displacement was not the end of ambition. It had interrupted school, separated families from stability, and narrowed the choices ...

UNITED NATIONS, September 18 (IPS) - When a child is diagnosed with cancer, their chances of survival should not depend on where they live, yet according to the WHO, more than 80 percent of children with cancer in high-income countries are cured, ...