LIMA, Jul 26 2024 (IPS) - The invasion of lands inhabited by Amazon indigenous communities is growing in Peru, due to drug ...

The violence that rocked New Caledonia last month has subsided. French President Emmanuel Macron has recently announced the suspension of changes to voting rights in the Pacific island nation, annexed ...

The installation of photovoltaic panels to use solar energy to irrigate small farms is expanding quickly in Chile because it lowers costs and optimizes the use of scarce water resources. "The rich ...

Lack of water threatens the very existence of family farming in Chile, forcing farmers to adopt new techniques or to leave their land. The shortage is caused by a 15-year drought and exacerbated by ...

Student protests over the Bangladesh government’s recruitment system have escalated into violent retaliation from the police.

Kenya’s President William Ruto has withdrawn the tax-increasing Finance Bill that sparked mass protests. He has sacked his ...

Each year the international community comes together at the UN’s headquarters in New York to take stock of progress on ...

In the heart of Empash village, 62 miles NW of Nairobi, Naomy Kolian's story of FGM unfolds like a gripping saga of pain and ...

High up in the eucalyptus-strewn Entoto Mountains, which overlook the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, work is nearly complete on the country’s first observatory. Studying the stars and the galaxies ...

Republican Vice-Presidential nominee JD Vance and other speakers at the GOP Convention gleefully referenced the party’s ...

Societal polarization, erosion of democracy, a rise in populism and disinformation curtail scientific freedom in Africa, a ...

MONTREAL, Canada, Jul 18 2024 (IPS) - Usama bin Laden once claimed that the seeds of 9/11 were planted in 1982 as he watched ...