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That’s according to Juliette Touma, Director of Communications for UNRWA, the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees, who spoke in depth to UN News’s Conor Lennon on Monday about her most recent visit to the Strip. The interview has been edited…

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was addressing the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board when he said that “several outstanding issues” still needed to be resolved by governments and that time was “very short” to find consensus. “A failure to deliver the…

In 2022, more than one hundred countries and territories, representing two-thirds of world’s population, experienced fertility rates below the replacement level with many governments bemoaning the birthrate blues. Credit: Shutterstock. Opinion by Joseph Chamie (portland, usa) Monday, January 22, 2024 Inter…

A micro-needle patch (MAP) is an innovative method to deliver drugs and vaccines. Credit: QuadMedicine by Busani Bafana (seoul) Monday, January 22, 2024 Inter Press Service SEOUL, Jan 22 (IPS) – If the fear of sharps makes a visit to the…

Opinion by Saifullah Syed (rome) Monday, January 22, 2024 Inter Press Service ROME, Jan 22 (IPS) – The parliamentary elections held in Bangladesh on 7 January, 2024, has created much controversy in the country, terming it an “election of the Awami…

Opinion by Ehtesham Shahid (abu dhabi) Monday, January 22, 2024 Inter Press Service ABU DHABI, Jan 22 (IPS) – “Middle East” or “West Asia?” This somewhat divided nomenclature adds another layer to the region’s already “complicated” label. Is it the “Middle…

Citing Gaza’s health authorities, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also noted that some 62,681 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli strikes launched in retaliation for Hamas-led massacres in Israel that left some 1,200 dead and…

An activist holds anti-death penalty signs outside the US Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. February 2023. Credit: Unsplash/Maria Oswalt by Thalif Deen (united nations) Monday, January 22, 2024 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jan 22 (IPS) – In a bygone…

Opinion by Patrick Devine (nairobi, kenya) Monday, January 22, 2024 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 22 (IPS) – Among East Africa’s dozens of pastoral tribes, major conflicts have erupted repeatedly, largely over land and water disputes. Generational trauma and anger…

Leaders from the 120-member bloc met amid deep division globally, including rising geopolitical tensions, climate catastrophe, widespread poverty and raging conflict in Sudan, Ukraine and Gaza. Danger and constraints “Following the abhorrent Hamas attacks on 7 October, the wholesale destruction…