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Yamide Dagnet, Senior Vice President, International at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Credit: COP30 by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Thursday January 15, 2026 Inter-Press Office NAIROBI, Jan 15 (IPS) – President Donald Trump has escalated efforts to further distance the United States from international organizations and entities focused on climate, environment and energy. This strategy […]
Listen to the article 6 minutes This audio is generated automatically. Please let us know if you have any feedback. After initially refusing to take any action to restrict image generation via Grok, despite reports that it is the AI bot generating thousands of non-consensual nude or near-nude images of people every day, in some […]
Entering a brand new home is a sensory experience. You smell the fresh paint, see the pristine carpets and feel the pristine potential of the space. But capture that feeling in a two-dimensional photo? That’s surprisingly difficult. Without furniture or personal touches, empty rooms can look like cold, rectangular boxes. They lack scale, depth […]
by SWAN Tuesday January 13, 2026 Inter-Press Office The nomadic Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay probably never dreamed that 21stcentury readers would delve into his private correspondence some 77 years after his death. But that’s probably part of the occupational hazard (luck?) of being a literary standout, or, as Yale University Press describes him, “one of […]
Look, I may be one of the few holdouts who still thinks Meta’s metaverse concept isn’t dead, and that the company remains focused on bringing its social VR worlds to fruition for the next generation, even if it isn’t currently discussing those plans publicly. But Meta’s own cost-cutting efforts don’t support that, as the company […]
Listen to the article 5 minutes This audio is generated automatically. Please let us know if you have any feedback. X’s slogan for 2026 could be “one battle after another” with the platform launch a new lawsuitthis time against the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), along with a group of publishers, over music licensing and […]
Opinion by Melek Zahine (Bordeaux, France) Monday January 12, 2026 Inter-Press Office BORDEAUX, France, Jan 12 (IPS) – Before providing military aid, deploying troops or dropping bombs, the United States lays the foundation for its political violence by first stripping its opponents of their humanity. Diplomacy is sidelined, legal restrictions are treated as inconveniences and […]
This is stated in a press release issued on Saturday Independent international fact-finding mission on Iran said it was alarmed by credible reports that security forces had been ordered to take “decisive” action without restraint as demonstrations entered a third week. Internet and mobile connectivity were cut off on the evening of January 8, severely […]
UN agencies warn that nearly three years of continued violence, limited humanitarian access and declining funding have pushed Sudan into what they describe as the world’s worst humanitarian emergency. An estimated 33.7 million people – about two-thirds of the population – will need humanitarian assistance by 2026. More than 20 million people now need health […]
