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Global warming is linked to increasingly drier conditions and devastating forest fires in the UNECE region covering Europe, North America, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Credit: Unsplash/Caleb Cook / Source: UN News Opinion by Cian Delaney (Brussels, Belgium) Friday November 7, 2025 Inter-Press Office BRUSSELS, Belgium, Nov 7 (IPS) – President Prabowo Subianto recently welcomed […]
Credit: United Nations by Thalif Deen (united nations) Friday November 7, 2025 Inter-Press Office UNITED NATIONS, Nov 7 (IPS) – “Has the world given up the fight against climate change?” was a rhetorical question recently asked by the New York Times, perhaps with a degree of sarcasm. It could look like this, says Christiana Figueres, […]
Photos from UNICEF show the impact of the destruction in Jamaica, with neighborhoods flooded and communities without access to many basic services. Credit: UNICEF by Oritro Karim (united nations) Thursday November 6, 2025 Inter-Press Office UNITED NATIONS, Nov 6 (IPS) – In late October, Hurricane Melissa, a powerful Category 5 storm, made landfall in the […]
Ahmed Salem Lebsir, battalion chief and director of the Polisario Front Military School, stands next to an installation marking Morocco’s invasion of the area 50 years ago. Credit: Karlos Zurutuza / IPS by Karlos Zurutuza (Rome) Wednesday November 5, 2025 Inter-Press Office ROME, Nov 5 (IPS) – Ehmudi Lebsir was 17 when he trudged more […]
An official explained the role of the Indian National Center on Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) as a regional tsunami service provider for the Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (IOTWMS) in the Indian Ocean. Credit: ESCAP/Nattabhon Narongkachavana | The World Tsunami Awareness Day is commemorated annually on November 5. Opinion by Temily Baker (Bangkok Thailand) Tuesday […]
The 30th ‘Conference of the Parties’ (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place from 6 to 21 November 2025 in Belém, Brazil. It will bring together world leaders, scientists, non-governmental organizations and civil society to discuss priority actions to combat climate change. COP30 will focus on the efforts […]
The Amazon River in Brazil. Credit: Jhampier Giron M | The 30th ‘Conference of the Parties’ (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place from 6 to 21 November 2025 in Belém, Brazil. It will bring together world leaders, scientists, non-governmental organizations and civil society to discuss priority actions […]
Amitabh Behar speaks to IPS at ICSW2025 in Bangkok, Thailand. Credit: Zofeen by Zofeen Ebrahim (Bangkok) Sunday November 2, 2025 Inter-Press Office BANGKOK, Nov 2 (IPS) – Speaking to IPS on the sidelines of International Civil Society Week in Bangkok (1-5 November), Amitabh Behar, Executive Director of Oxfam International and a passionate advocate for human […]
CIVICUS Secretary General Mandeep Tiwana during International Civil Society Week 2025. Credit: Zofeen Ebrahim/IPS by Zofeen Ebrahim (Bangkok) Saturday November 1, 2025 Inter-Press Office BANGKOK, Nov 1 (IPS) – It’s a somber global moment as civil society actors battle assassinations, imprisonments, trumped-up charges and cuts to pro-democracy movements in a world gripped by inequality, climate […]
The USSR’s first nuclear test “Joe 1” in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, August 29, 1949. Credit: CTBTO by Thalif Deen (united nations) Friday October 31, 2025 Inter-Press Office UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 (IPS) – The ongoing aftermath of nuclear testing by the world’s nuclear powers has had a devastating impact on hundreds and thousands of victims around […]
