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ROME, September 30 (IPS) - Imagine your morning coffee. You smell the aroma as steam rises from the cup. It wisps and swirls, thins, then disappears. You lift the cup to your mouth. The first pure joy of the day.

UNITED NATIONS, September 30 (IPS) - The United Nations High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) on September 25 called for faster and more sustained investment in pandemic preparedness. Speakers emphasized that ...

Artificial Intelligence or AI - and the technology behind it - is moving fast. The question being asked across the world is who gets a seat at the table deciding how it's used and who gets to benefit.

What if the world tackled inequality with the same kind of scientific firepower it has brought to the climate crisis?

NEW YORK, September 30 (IPS) - Years ago, standing in a small farmer's field in Haiti, I began to suspect that we had agriculture backward. The development world saw a man in need of rescue. I saw a farmer who might help rescue the rest of us.

BRUSSELS, Belgium / MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, September 30 (IPS) - At the 18th BRICS Summit, held on 12 and 13 September in New Delhi, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought together presidents Xi Jinping of China, Vladimir Putin of Russia and ...

NEW YORK, September 29 (IPS) - "Artificial intelligence (AI) must be shaped by humanity, with humanity, and for all humanity Life-and-death decisions must never be surrendered to machines. Killer robots must have no place in our future."

YAOUNDE, Cameroon, September 29 (IPS) - Agricultural, land, forestry, environmental and trade policies in the Congo Basin remain compartmentalised at country levels, leaving proven agroecological models trapped at pilot stages due to a lack of ...

Food waste is helping to fuel global warming, one half-eaten sandwich at a time.

UNITED NATIONS, September 29 (IPS) - On September 23, the United Nations held its 2026 Climate Summit as part of the High-Level Week of the 81st session of the General Assembly (UNGA 81). Convening civil society actors, climate scientists, major ...