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Leading athletes, influencers and innovators have been sharing their thoughts on the role that sport can play in building a better world for all, in UN-led online discussions held to coincide with the Tokyo Olympics. Read the full story, “Olympic athletes describe the power of sport to c…

The second flight test of the U.S Air Force’s latest hypersonic missile failed on July 28 following technical problems, the service announced in a statement. The details were given in a media release, to announce Air Force conducted its second AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (…

A Russian Aerospace Forces Su-35 fighter jet has crashed in the far east of Russia on Saturday, Russian news agencies cited rescue officials as saying. Four minutes after the takeoff, the pilot ejected, and the fighter jet continued to fly towards Sakhalin. Later, the Su-35 crashed in the…

Train loaded with large amounts of Chinese military hardware, including Type-96 main tanks and other heavy armored vehicles, has arrived in Russia. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Type-96 main battle tanks and soldiers of the 75th Group Army of the People’s…

Two Russia’s Il-22PP electronic warfare aircraft were intercepted and escorted by NATO fighter jets during a flight over neutral waters over the Baltic Sea. The story was first reported by The Aviationist, which cited a statement from NATO’s Combined Air Operations Centre that NATO scramb…

Russian Defence Ministry on Thursday confirmed that it has awarded Russia’s state arms group Almaz-Antey a contract for the first batch of the S-500 Prometey air defense systems. “The Russian Ministry of Defense signed a contract with VKO Almaz-Antey on shipment of over 10 Prometey system…

NEW DELHI, India, Jul 30 (IPS) - Branded as being born ‘criminal’ 150 years ago under British colonial rule, De-Notified Tribes (DNTs) continue to bear the brunt of the various laws that stigmatised them since 1871. Read the full story, “When Branded as a Born Criminal: The Plight of In…

Small island nations across the world are bearing the brunt of the climate crisis, and their problems have been accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has severely affected their economies, and their capacity to protect themselves from possible extinction. We take a look at some of …

It’s been six months since the military coup in Myanmar where there’s grave concern over the widening impact of the deepening political, human rights and humanitarian crisis affecting the country’s people. Read the full story, “Six months after coup, Myanmar’s political, rights and aid c…

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) strongly condemned an attack in its main compound in the western Afghan province of Herat on Friday that left an Afghan police guard dead and other officers injured.   Read the full story, “Afghanistan: Attack on UN mission draws global c…

Life-saving aid to families on the brink of famine is being cut off in several countries by fighting and blockades, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) said in a new report issued on Friday. Read the full story, “Conflict, COVID, climate cr…

Cases and deaths resulting from COVID-19 continue to climb worldwide, mostly fuelled by the highly transmissible Delta variant, which has spread to 132 countries, said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. Read the full story, “Delta variant, a warning the COVID-19 …

The continued recruitment and presence of mercenaries in Libya is impeding “progress in the peace process” and an obstacle to upcoming elections, independent UN human rights experts said on Friday, calling for their “long overdue” departure.   Read the full story, “Mercenaries ‘impede’ …

Jul 30 (IPS) - Muslims are the largest minority community in India, and yet, they are highly underrepresented both in public and private institutions. According to a study conducted by the Economic Times Intelligence Group in 2015, Muslims constituted approximately 2.7 percent of mid t…

ABUJA, Jul 30 (IPS) - A  new survey  on public awareness of long COVID by ‘Resolve to Save Lives” showed that among the 40% of Americans who were not vaccinated, seeing testimonials of those who suffer from long COVID inspired nearly two-thirds to consider the vaccine. A representative s…

More than 100,000 children in Tigray, Ethiopia, could suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition in the next 12 months, a tenfold jump over average annual levels, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.  Read the full story, “100,000 children in Tigray at risk of dea…

A teenage girl who was sold for sex for the price of a few beers as a twelve-year-old, has told the United Nations how she was trafficked between Burundi and Tanzania in East Africa. Read the full story, “First Person: ‘I’m not old enough to be a woman’ says trafficked teen”, on globalis…

The global Formula E electric race series, a partner with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP),  has grown in popularity since it launched some seven years ago, attracting the attention of major car manufacturers, changing people’s perceptions of electric vehicles, and bringing the world o…

After a near-halt of COVID-19 vaccine shipments in Africa, delivers have ramped up in recent months, the UN health agency said on Thursday.  Read the full story, “COVID-19 vaccine shipments boost for Africa”, on globalissues.org → from Global Issues News Headlines https://ift.tt/2WB…

ROME, Jul 29 (IPS) - He moves aside the curtain, thin as gauze, and then bends over. The darkness dazzles for a few seconds when one enters the house—actually, a den made of earth where air and light filter through the narrow entrance. Jean de Dieu Amani Paye holds her tiny baby, wrapped…

NEW DELHI, India, Jul 29 (IPS) - The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the most hostile and dangerous regions for journalists. A complex conflict, deeply rooted in the country’s past, allows very little freedom, both movement and the press. Read the full story, “Alarming Crisis of …

NAIROBI, Jul 29 (IPS) - Kenya is constructing a railway line that connects the coastal port of Mombasa and the interior of the country. It is expected to terminate at Malaba, a town on the border with Uganda, and link up with other railways that are being built in East Africa. It’s local…

Three UN agencies on Thursday welcomed $127 million in new funding from the World Bank to provide lifesaving support to some of the country’s most hard hit rural families, struggling under the impact of multiple crises.   Read the full story, “Yemen: New World Bank funds offer lifeline …

People being plunged into poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in the killing of people with albinism, the outgoing UN appointed independent expert said on Thursday.   Read the full story, “Witchcraft killings of people with albinism have risen during the COVID-19 …

UN Secretary General António Guterres on Thursday urged States to take action against human trafficking, where a third of all victims are children. Read the full story, “Human trafficking: UN chief calls for action as COVID leaves ‘many millions’ more vulnerable”, on globalissues.org →…

A senior official with the World Health Organization (WHO) has highlighted the need for a global treaty on pandemic preparedness and response, urging countries to “seize the moment” and support its development.  Read the full story, “Countries urged to develop pandemic preparedness and …

LETHBRIDGE, Canada, Jul 29 (IPS) - From an international humanitarian perspective, the first half of 2021 has been disappointing. We’re no further ahead in ending the conflict in Syria and Yemen. From the fledgling democracy that it had become, Myanmar has descended into what most of its …

HAMILTON, Ontario, Canada, Jul 29 (IPS) - In 1995, a highly-respected water expert in South Africa, Bill Pitman , in very concise terms illustrated that the country, already battling a growing lack of water then, would likely run out in 25 years if it did not increase its supply. Read t…

A sustainable and prosperous planet can only be achieved through working together and in solidarity, the UN Deputy Secretary-General said on Wednesday at the end of a major global food security meeting. Read the full story, “Food systems transformation a ‘silver lining’ in COVID crisis: …

Three days of strong winds and heavy monsoon rain on sprawling refugee sites in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar have taken Rohingya refugee lives and wreaked havoc and destruction, the UN refugee agency said on Wednesday. Read the full story, “Bangladesh: Deadly flooding, landslides devastate …

Although the international community is providing urgent assistance to Gaza in the wake of the most recent round of hostilities, a political solution is still needed to end the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, a senior UN official in the region said on Wednesday.  Read the ful…

The UN health agency pointed out on Wednesday, World Hepatitis Day, that every 30 seconds a person dies from a hepatitis-related illness and called for all countries to work together to eliminate this preventable disease as a public health threat by 2030.   Read the full story, “On Worl…

COVID-19 infections rose eight per cent last week to more than 3.8 million, the UN health agency reported on Wednesday.   Read the full story, “COVID-19 infections rise, Delta variant spreads to 132 countries”, on globalissues.org → from Global Issues News Headlines https://ift.tt/2W…

DISSIN, Burkina Faso, Jul 28 (IPS) - Honorine Meda is 23. Cycling through her hometown of Dissin, in Burkina Faso’s verdant southwest, she smiles, waves and stops to chat with one of the girls she counsels. Read the full story, “To Prevent Teenage Pregnancies in Sub Saharan Africa, It T…

SINGAPORE, Jul 28 (IPS) - After almost two decades, Golden Rice was approved last week by the Philippines authorities for use as food. This together with the approval of the bioengineered Bt eggplant represents a landmark victory of science over misinformation; it will provide consumers w…

It has never been more urgent to recommit to the spirit and fundamental principles of the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN refugee agency said on Wednesday as it marked the 70th anniversary of the key international treaty.  Read the full story, “Cornerstone treaty of refugee protection tu…

A Brisbane-based firm said on Wednesday it had got an order for delivering full-sized targets mimicking enemy combat vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps. “GaardTech received order from the USMC for live-fire robotic enemy vehicles for an upcoming OS training activity in Australia,” the com…

Ukrainian-based Archer company has developed an improved version of the compact gunner’s sight for main battle tanks. As noted by the company, it has developed a multi-sensor electro-optical sight system fitted with a cooled detector. The use of new state-of-the-art technology enables to …

Kyiv-based missile maker Artem holding company says it was awarded a $200 million contract from the unnamed customer for R-27 medium-range air-to-air missile production. Artem director Vladimir Zimin said in a statement that “the company received an advance payment and began to fulfill th…

LISBON, Portugal, Jul 28 (IPS) - The water we drink and the air we breathe are the basis of life. With universal access to clean water and sanitation, we will be healthier, our economies will be stronger, gender equality will be more achievable, and more children will stay in school. Re…

NAIROBI, KENYA, Jul 27 (IPS) - The difficulties in accessing education faced by children and young people forcibly displaced from their homes were today laid bare in a virtual high-level roundtable convened by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the UK and Canada. …

Practically all peacekeepers and staff have now left the hybrid UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), in line with its drawdown plan, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Tuesday.  Read the full story, “UN-African Union Mission in Darfur in final shutdown phase”, on g…

While many countries are making progress in the fight against tobacco use, a new World Health Organization (WHO) report shows some are failing to address the problem of emerging nicotine and tobacco products. Read the full story, “Progress on tobacco fight, but new nicotine products pos…

The UN independent expert on the human rights situation in Myanmar on Tuesday called for a “COVID ceasefire” for the country, as infections and deaths soar even as the military junta escalates attacks against healthcare workers.  Read the full story, “Myanmar: Rights expert calls for ‘CO…

A culture of “safety, friends and food” at school has been replaced by “anxiety, violence, and teenage pregnancy”, with remote learning out of reach for millions, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said on Tuesday. Read the full story, “COVID-19: Education replaced by shuttered schools, vio…

ROME and AMSTERDAM, Jul 27 (IPS) - There is nothing honourable about murder. And murdering someone of your own family, your own child - a daughter, someone you held in your arms and rocked to sleep when they were babies? This is such a horrifying crime that there are no words to describe …

WASHINGTON DC, Jul 27 (IPS) - Low-income countries have been hard hit by the pandemic. Their large financing needs are only likely to grow as they deal with the crisis and its economic aftermath. Read the full story, “Stepping Up to Meet Low-Income Countries Pandemic Recovery Needs”, on…

CARACAS, Jul 26 (IPS) - The exodus of more than five million Venezuelans in the last six years has led countries in the developing South, Venezuela's neighbours, to set an example with respect to welcoming and integrating displaced populations, with shared benefits for the new arriva…

At least half a million children under five in drought-afflicted southern Madagascar are on the verge of acute malnourishment, two UN agencies warned on Monday.  Read the full story, “Child malnutrition expected to quadruple in Southern Madagascar”, on globalissues.org → from Global …

An ancient temple in India and a “cultural landscape” in Spain have become two of the latest sites to be registered on the UN’s prestigious World Heritage List.  Read the full story, “Outstanding sites added to UNESCO World Heritage List”, on globalissues.org → from Global Issues Ne…

Landmark elections in the Occupied Palestinian territory must be rescheduled soon and include East Jerusalem, three UN independent human rights experts said in a statement on Monday.  Read the full story, “Free, fair Palestinian elections, must include East Jerusalem: UN experts”, on glo…

Negotiations began on Monday to approve a UN science report which will anchor high level summits later this year, charged with boosting climate action worldwide. Read the full story, “UN climate science talks open amid heatwaves, floods and drought”, on globalissues.org → from Global…

The world is waking up to the importance of mangroves, a senior UN official said on Monday, underscoring the need for everyone to support restoration and protection of these crucial habitats.  Read the full story, “Support mangrove conservation, UNESCO chief says”, on globalissues.org →…

Inefficient global food production is at the root of a huge rise in hunger as well as one-third of all emissions and 80 per cent of biodiversity loss, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned, in a call to all countries to transform food systems to speed up sustainable developmen…

BAE Systems, a global leader in electronic warfare, announced on Jul. 26 that it has received a $117 million contract from Lockheed Martin to produce next-generation missile seekers for the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM). As noted by the company, the seeker technology enables LRASM …

Swedish defense company Saab announced that it has shipped its second aft airframe section, which is for use in the T-7A Red Hawk flight test program. According to a company news release, the production and shipment of this aft airframe section is the latest milestone in Saab’s contributi…

A new remote combat vehicle prototype that the U.S. Army is acquiring to navigate through the most dangerous sectors of the battlefield and engage the enemy is being tested at Fort Dix in New Jersey. According to Army Recognition, the Army is experimenting with the remote combat vehicle m…

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 26 (IPS) - The writer is UNFPA Regional Director for East and Southern Africa.The 2018 Nobel Laureate, Dr. Denis Mukwege, a gynaecologist celebrated for his work with survivors of sexual assault in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Panzi Hospital once said: “…

More women and children were killed and wounded in Afghanistan in the first half of 2021 than in the first six months of any year since records began in 2009, a United Nations report revealed on Monday. Read the full story, “Afghanistan: Record number of women and children killed or woun…

ROME, Jul 26 (IPS) - Back-to-back droughts followed by plagues of locusts have pushed over a million people in southern Madagascar to the brink of starvation in recent months. In the worst famine in half a century, villagers have sold their possessions and are eating the locusts, raw cac…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jul 26 (IPS) - Undoubtedly, the world needs to reform existing food systems to better serve humanity and sustainable development. But the United Nations World Food Systems Summit ( UNFSS ) must be consistent with UN-led multilateralism. For the first time ever, th…

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 26 (IPS) - As a wisecracking cynic once remarked: “The sun would never set on the British empire because God wouldn’t trust an Englishman in the dark“. Perhaps it was an uncharitable remark because most of the British colonies have long gone. Read the full story, “Is…

“The world urgently needs a clear and unambiguous commitment to the 1.5 degree goal of the Paris Agreement from all G20 nations”, António Guterres said on Sunday after the Group failed to agree on the wording of key climate change commitments during their recent Ministerial Meeting on En…

Private contractor Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced that it has demonstrated the multi-role strike capabilities of the MC-145B Coyote aircraft at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida as part of the U.S. Special Operations Command’s (USSOCOM) Armed Overwatch program. SNC is partnered wit…

Russia is reportedly jamming European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 radar imaging satellite over. Russian media on Jul. 25, reported that the EAS’ Sentinel-1 satellite has been repeatedly subjected to electronic warfare attacks when he was scanning areas near the country’s southern Rostov reg…

U.K. aerospace giant BAE Systems released more details about its concept of the U.S. Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV). The OMFV project is a key element of the U.S. Army’s Next-Generation Combat Vehicle modernization effort aims to ultimately replace the decades-old Bradle…

A “lack of global solidarity” including the hoarding of vaccines by richer nations as well as slow vaccination rate has contributed to Indonesia becoming the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak in Asia, according to the UN’s top official in the country. Read the full story, “‘Lack of glo…

Farmers, especially women and indigenous people, work tirelessly to put food on our tables. UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed met on Saturday women producers at a farmers’ market in Circo Massimo, Rome, ahead of the Food Systems Pre-Summit taking place next week. Read the full …

The U.S. Army has chosen five teams to compete for the Concept Design Phase of the future Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program, the service announced July 23. According to a press release from Army released on Friday, the service has picked BAE Systems, General Dynamics Land Systems…

The Bae systems Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) is now undergoing rigorous testing at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. A post from the Yuma Proving Ground’s official Twitter account has revealed that AMPVs are undergoing reliability, availability, and maintainability testing at YPG, wit…

British designer and manufacturer of electronic-scanning radars and surveillance solutions Blighter has announced that it has been selected to provide a minimum of 25 target acquisition radars for a fleet of Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFVs). According to a company news release, the initi…

The Security Council said in a statement released on Friday that settling any part of the abandoned Cypriot suburb of Varosha, “by people other than its inhabitants, is “inadmissible”.  Read the full story, “Security Council calls for ‘immediate reversal’ of Turkish and Turkish Cypriots …

Rising violent attacks by jihadist groups in Burkina Faso are forcing record-breaking numbers of people to flee both inside the country and across international borders, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, reported on Friday.  Read the full story, “Increased jihadist attacks in Burkina Faso sp…

The role of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in promoting development has become “even more critical” as a way of guiding and informing the COVID-19 pandemic response worldwide, Collen Vixen Kelapile said on Friday, speaking for the first time as the UN body’s president.  Read th…

The public water system in Lebanon is “on life support” and could collapse at any moment, putting 71 per cent of the population, or more than four million people, at immediate risk of losing access to safe supply, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, warned on Friday.  Read the full story, “L…

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, Jul 23 (IPS) - Twenty-seven years after South Africa’s first democratic elections, the country finds itself reflecting on the catalysts of a week of looting and destruction of property resulting in more than 200 deaths and US$ 1.3 billion in damage. Read the …

Jul 22 (IPS) - Almost 200 people dead and many others still missing. Billions of euros’ worth of damage. Communities devastated. Thousands of homes destroyed and their occupants traumatised. Read the full story, “Europe’s Catastrophic Flooding Was Forecast Well in Advance – What Went S…

KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jul 23 (IPS) - Following the Supreme Court’s decision to reinstall the House of Representatives and appoint-- after a prolonged and nasty legal battle-- a new Prime Minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, there is high probability that a government of national unity will be put to…

Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing global climate, water-related hazards top the list of natural disasters with the highest human losses in the past 50 years, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Read the full story, “Water-related hazards dom…

Lifesaving assistance arrived for the beleaguered Tigray region of Ethiopia on Thursday as the first UN World Food Programme (WFP) plane carrying humanitarian workers touched down in the capital Mekelle.  Read the full story, “Tigray: As famine looms, first WFP humanitarian flight arrive…

Although new COVID-19 cases in Africa have slowed following an eight-week surge, this “small step forward” could be short-lived, the Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.  Read the full story, “COVID-19: Africa ‘third wave’ not yet over, while vaccine …

The head of the UN food relief agency called on the world’s richest nations on Thursday to invest more in sustainable living, to feed the world’s growing population.   Read the full story, “FAO head urges G20 to invest in a healthy planet for healthy food”, on globalissues.org → from…

Nearly half of the 1.7 million children worldwide living with HIV were not on treatment last year, the UN programme leading the global fight against HIV and AIDS, UNAIDS, said in a report released together with partners.  Read the full story, “Revealed: Inequalities persist in HIV preven…

Jul 22 (IPS) - “The government should open schools, even if it’s for an hour, to facilitate some student-teacher interaction. Most teachers feel that students should be encouraged to come to school. Read the full story, “Its Time To Reopen Primary Schools in India”, on globalissues.org …

KIGALI, Rwanda, Jul 22 (IPS) - Rwanda is trying to reduce post-harvest loss by relying on new technologies to increase the amount of food available for consumption and help smallholder farmers confront some challenges caused by the overproduction of staple crops. Read the full story, “R…

Pentagon’s No.1 weapons supplier Lockheed Martin Corp rolled out the first C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force). The new C-130J with other five transport planes, which Luftwaffe curently buying, will become part of a joint Franco-German squadron at …

Germany Leifeld, located in Ahlen, refused to supply Ukraine with high-technology equipmen, the director of the LUCH Design Bureau said. Oleg Korostelov, director of leading Ukrainian defense company, said during a “Effective industry for defense” event July 16 that Leifeld refused to sup…

The Greek Air Force, better known as Hellenic Air Force (HAF), has received first Rafale fighter jet from the France. A ceremony at the Dassault Aviation Flight Test Center in Istres, marked the handover of the first Rafale plane in the HAF’s order of 18 fighter jets. The company said thi…

German defense company Rheinmetall announced Thursday it plans to supply laser light modules for the German armed forces. According to a Rheinmetall news release, Bundeswehr has selected the company to supply up to 130,000 laser light modules. To begin with, 2,460 devices worth a total of…

Russia is develioping a new single-engine, stealth fighter jet under the project name “Checkmate”. The warplane is expected to take to the skies in 2023 with a first batch due to be produced in 2026. Russia plans to produce 300 of the aircraft over 15 years once serial production begins. …

NEW YORK, Jul 22 (IPS) - Professor Azza Karam is Secretary General, Religions for Peace   UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believes “our solidarity based on the human rights and human dignity of all highlights the crucial role of religious leaders in our communities and beyond”. He c…

The head of the UN World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has welcomed the start of the Olympic and Paralympic Games as a chance to spread “hope to the world”.   Read the full story, “WHO’s Tedros backs Tokyo Olympic Games ‘power to inspire’”, on globalissues.org → fr…

Independent UN rights experts on Wednesday warned that hundreds of Venezuelan cancer patients could die because they have been caught up in the excessively strict application of United States sanctions aimed at Venezuela and the state-owned oil company, Petroleum of Venezuela. Read the …

Celebrating what would have been Nelson Mandela’s 102nd birthday on Wednesday, the UN deputy chief hailed the man who led the struggle that ended the racist apartheid system in his native South Africa as exemplifying “courage, compassion and an unwavering commitment to social justice and…

URBANA, Illinois, Jul 21 (IPS) - Across the United States, the last few months have brought along many climate-linked disasters. From surging wildfires in Hawaii to record-breaking Pacific Northwest heat waves to drought across the western states . The southwestern states also have see…

NEW YORK, Jul 21 (IPS) - The writer is Senior Africa Researcher at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)Tsaone Basimanebotlhe was not expecting security agents to appear at her home in a village outside Gaborone, Botswana’s capital, in July 2019, she told CPJ in a recent interview. B…

Kathmandu, Nepal, Jul 21 (IPS) - One year after Nepal’s Ministry of Health (MoH) appealed to international organisations in the country to urgently supply a drug used to stop excessive bleeding after childbirth, a UN agency has delivered $1 million worth of contraceptives to prevent anot…

Historic docklands and buildings in the UK city of Liverpool have been removed from the UN cultural body UNESCO’s list of World Heritage sites, it announced on Wednesday. Read the full story, “Liverpool’s historic waterfront removed from World Heritage List”, on globalissues.org → fr…

Jul 20 (IPS) - “Vaccine equity is the challenge of our time,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), told the gathering in opening remarks.  “And we are failing”at a special ministerial meeting of the Economic and Social Council. Read the fu…

MIAMI, Jul 20 (IPS) - It would seem that those responsible for the recent immigration crisis in Ceuta and Melilla have coordinated their strategy to commemorate the centenary of one of the most serious defeats that Spain has suffered in its foreign relations. One hundred years ago, the S…

Rome, Italy, Jul 20 (IPS) - The third wave of Covid-19 is sweeping through Myanmar, from the high narrow buildings of the commercial capital Yangon to bamboo houses in rural areas. Read the full story, “Myanmar Struggles in the Grip of Coup and Covid”, on globalissues.org → from Glo…

WASHINGTON DC, Jul 20 (IPS) - The writer is a Research Analyst at Stimson CenterThe forthcoming UN Secretary-General’s “Our Common Agenda” report, to be released before this year’s UN General Assembly High-Level Week, is expected to offer ambitious recommendations to accelerate the reali…

Secretary-General António Guterres strongly condemned the “horrific bomb attack targeting civilians” at a busy market in the north-east of the Iraqi capital, just before the Eid al-Adha holiday. Read the full story, “Iraq: Bomb attack on eve of Eid al-Adha, ‘terrorism knows no bounds’”, …

A French Air Force Mirage 2000D fighter jet has crashed in northern Mali on Tuesday due to a technical problem. The Dassault Mirage 2000D, belonging to the 3rd Fighter Wing of the French Air Force, had taken off from the projected airbase (BAP) of Niamey, in Niger. The crash occurred in H…

Swedish defense company Saab announced on Monday that the U.S. Army has awarded the company with a new contract to produce an additional Multi-Role Anti-Armor Anti-Personnel Weapons System (MAAWS) ammunition. According to a company news release, the order value is approximately $75 millio…

A Turkish drone maker will combine its skillset in advanced technology weapons, autonomous systems with Ukrainian-made jet engines to develop new unmanned combat aircraft. Turkey’s Baykar has begun the conceptual design phase of what it hopes will become the jet-powered unmanned aircraft …

The Russian Ministry of Defense has released video footage that showing the test launch of the newest S-500 surface-to-air missile system. For the first time, the Russian military reveals its new air defense system based on a 10-wheel drive military truck chassis BAZ-69096. According to a…

SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 20 (IPS) - Despite facing the world’s worst pandemic of the last century, rich countries in the World Trade Organization (WTO) have blocked efforts to enable more affordable access to the means to fight the pandemic. Read the full story, “European Duplicity U…

Survivors of a massacre of mainly Muslims in the former Yugoslavia, and people associated with the perpetrators of what has become known as the Srebrenica genocide, have been telling their stories in a new exhibition by the United Nations, released 26 years after the events took place. …

Marking World Chess Day on Tuesday, the UN is celebrating the fact that while COVID-19 has forced most sports to scale down, this ancient game of intellect, not brute strength, has demonstrated remarkable resilience and adaptability throughout months of lockdown worldwide. Read the full…

The UN human rights chief on Monday said the apparent widespread use of Pegasus spy software to illegally undermine the rights of those under surveillance, including journalists and politicians, was “extremely alarming” and confirmed “some of the worst fears” surrounding the potential mis…

Deteriorating economic conditions since 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic have fuelled an increase in domestic violence and forced marriage in Sudan, a UN-backed study has revealed.  Read the full story, “Domestic violence, forced marriage, have risen in Sudan: UN-backed study”, on globalis…

Fewer women will regain jobs lost to the COVID-19 pandemic during the recovery period, than men, according to a new study released on Monday by the UN’s labour agency.   Read the full story, “Fewer women than men will regain work during COVID-19 recovery: ILO”, on globalissues.org → …

MEXICO CITY, Jul 19 (IPS) - In June, the Department of Homeland Security made a critical announcement. For the first time in U.S. history, more than 15 national and local agencies and civilian organizations conducted a simultaneous major binational operation to find missing children insid…

BRIGHTON, UK, Jul 19 (IPS) - The UK government’s decision to reduce its Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget from 0.7% of gross national income (GNI) to 0.5% -- a cut of around £4 billion this year -- was confirmed last week by a majority of 35 votes in a House of Commons vote. …

Attacks against so-called slaves in Mali are on the rise and authorities must do more to prevent them, two independent UN human rights experts said on Monday. Read the full story, “Rights experts condemn ‘dramatic rise’ in attacks on so-called slaves in Mali”, on globalissues.org → f…

Human rights defenders in Myanmar are being targeted under a “brute force terror campaign” by the military junta, United Nations independent experts said on Monday, calling again for a stronger international response to the coup. Read the full story, “Myanmar: ‘Brute force terror campaig…

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 19 (IPS) - With Henrietta Fore's decision last week to step down as UNICEF Executive Director, her successor is most likely to be another American since that post has been held-- uninterruptedly -- by US nationals for almost 74 years, an unprecedented all-time rec…