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Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv killed at least 14 civilians and injured more than 80 others overnight on Monday, according to local authorities.

UN chief António Guterres appealed on Monday for far-reaching, worldwide controls on Artificial Intelligence, as increasingly powerful AI chips that are designed for civilian use shift to the battlefield, where "killer robots" are already the norm.

When people think of the world's deadliest threats, armed conflicts usually come to mind first. Yet every year, organized crime quietly claims a comparable number of lives.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, July 3 (IPS) - Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori has won Peru's presidential runoff, narrowly defeating leftist Roberto Sánchez to become the country's ninth president in a decade. She inherits a system so engineered for ...

The war in Sudan threatens to spiral further as the strategically-important town of El Obeid continues to face "relentless" drone attacks by advancing paramilitary militias, the UN's human rights chief, Volker Türk, said on Friday.

UNITED NATIONS, July 3 (IPS) - While the movement for the universal abolition of the death penalty advances, this progress "cannot be taken for granted," said UN Secretary-General António Guterres as he greeted the 9th World Congress Against the ...

NEW YORK, July 3 (IPS) - For a generation, no foreign leader bet more heavily on a single American president than Benjamin Netanyahu bet on Donald Trump. Trump moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, tore up the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran, recognized . ...

NEW YORK, July 3 (IPS) - At the Annual General Meeting of the United Nations Asia Network for Diversity and Inclusion ( ) on 21 May 2026, I was invited to share my reflections on both the pre and post separation phases of my UN journey. This provided ...

"To respect strength, never power" is one of my favorite quotes from the acclaimed writer and activist, Arundhati Roy. For years, this quote has stayed with me. It encourages a way of life grounded in compassion rather than dominance.

BRATISLAVA, July 2 (IPS) - A U.S. decision to cut off funding for HIV projects in South Africa has been condemned amid warnings it could be "catastrophic" for efforts to control the disease in the country.