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NEW YORK, April 28 (IPS) - The veil has been lifted--but not the one you think.Not the veil the West has spent decades weaponizing. The veil now exposed is the one that concealed Western feminism's selective solidarity--its silence on the women it .. ...

UNITED NATIONS, April 28 (IPS) - The race for the next UN Secretary-General has, so far, attracted only four candidates--perhaps with more to come in an unpredictable contest.But most of the candidates have played it safe - avoiding controversial ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, April 28 (IPS) - The January 2026 US National Defense Strategy (NDS) departs significantly from those preceding it, including from Trump's first term. Is it deliberately misleading? Or is actual policy, including war, being .. ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 28 (IPS) - As delegates from 191 countries, including the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, gathered Monday at UN headquarters for a month of diplomacy at the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non ...

This is the third part of a three-part commentary. Read Part 1: No Kings? Meet King Don and King John - Part 1 of 3, Part 2 of 3 Whose head? In foreign relations, as in immigration, King Don the Con appears to be channeling King John the Bad and ...

SAINT LUCIA, April 27 (IPS) - The gap between global environmental ambition and real-world progress is widening, with less than five years left to meet key climate and biodiversity targets.

UNITED NATIONS, April 27 (IPS) - The Eleventh Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will meet at the United Nations in New York from 27 April to 22 May 2026. State parties to the treaty will ...

LONDON, April 27 (IPS) - Yasmin Ullah, from Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya minority, is determined to see justice. On 13 April, she filed a complaint alleging genocide against Myanmar's president, Min Aung Hlaing, to Indonesia's Attorney General's ...

WASHINGTON DC, April 27 (IPS) - Sub-Saharan Africa's economies entered 2026 with significant momentum. The region had notched its fastest growth rate in 10 years--4.5 percent in 2025--buoyed by reduced macroeconomic imbalances, rising investment ...

NDOLA, Zambia, April 27 (IPS) - In the bustling Chifubu constituency of Ndola, the provincial capital of Zambia's mineral-rich Copperbelt Province, 31-year-old Victoria Bwalya is usually among the early risers, cleaning and setting up for the day in ...