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ISLAMABAD, Oct 09 (IPS) - Over the past few months, Pakistan has been grappling with a persistent and disruptive internet slowdown, leaving millions of citizens frustrated.

WASHINGTON DC/OXFORD, Oct 09 (IPS) - How will Israel respond to Iran's recent ballistic missiles barrage? "Strategic patience" is the best course. Israel has its hands full with Hamas and Hezbollah. Now is not the time to escalate a new major war ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 09 (IPS) - After 2.5 years, US President Joe Biden's Indo-Pacific Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) is increasingly irrelevant due to its own limitations and broader US foreign policy shifts.

TURIN, Italy, Oct 08 (IPS) - Edward Mukiibi, President of Slow Food, champions agroecology as a transformative answer to the world's most pressing crises: food insecurity, climate change, and violent conflicts.

VIENNA, Austria, Oct 08 (IPS) - In recent years, the rhetoric, strategy and practice of nuclear deterrence has grown riskier, more urgent, more dangerous, less stable, and increasingly in the hands of deficient leaders and policymakers.

As online tools using various forms of artificial intelligence become increasingly common, calls are growing for more action to ensure that they do not create or perpetuate stereotypes and gender bias.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 07 (IPS) - "I don't know of a more sustainable technology for the transformation of society than biogas," said Professor Alex Enrich-Prast, an activist for this energy alternative with a highly diversified and decentralised ...

Oct 07 (IPS) - CIVICUS discusses the recent Twitter/X ban in Brazil with Iná Jost, lawyer and head of research at InternetLab, an independent Brazilian think tank focused on human rights and digital technologies.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 07 (IPS) - The warnings from the United Nations and from anti-nuclear activists are increasingly ominous: the world is closer to a nuclear war--by design or by accident--more than ever before.

SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Oct 07 (IPS) - Everything is at stake. Everything is at stake with nuclear weapons. While working as a nuclear war planner for the Kennedy administration, Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack ...