Children in Bangladesh riding a boat through a flooded river to attend school. Bangladesh is one of the most climate-sensitive regions in the world. Credit: UNICEF/Suman Paul Himu by Oritro Karim (united nations) Wednesday, October 08, 2025 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, October 8 (IPS) – In recent years, international climate …
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The Declining Influence of the UN was Illustrated this Week When Most Nations Walked Out on Netanyahu’s Speech
by Brian ShilhavyEditor, Health Impact News The United Nations had a general assembly this week in New York City. The Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other Palestinian officials were denied visas to travel to New York to attend the session, even though the State of Palestine has been …
Senate Confirms Mike Waltz Just In Time For Trump To Crash United Nations
The Senate confirmed Mike Waltz as United Nations ambassador Friday, just in time for President Donald Trump’s speech to the global body next week. The former Republican congressman was confirmed in a 47-43 vote for the most prominent unfilled cabinet post in the Trump administration. His confirmation marks the end …
Facing rising risks, landlocked nations launch climate alliance at UN summit — Global Issues
Operating within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the group aims to amplify their voices in global climate talks, where their distinct vulnerabilities have long been overlooked. Disproportionate climate risks Although LLDCs account for approximately 12 per cent of the world’s land surface, they have experienced nearly 20 …
UN summit on landlocked nations opens in Turkmenistan — Global Issues
Urging global leaders to rethink development for landlocked nations, the UN chief declared: “We gather today to reaffirm a fundamental truth: geography should never define destiny.” According to the UN Development Programme, of the 32 landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) worldwide, 16 are in Africa, 10 in Asia, four in Europe, …
UN urges MPs to deliver on development promises for 600 million in landlocked nations — Global Issues
Speaking at Monday’s Parliamentary Forum of the Third UN Conference on LLDCs, senior UN leaders stressed that political will, matched with national legislative action, is essential if a new decade-long development plan is to make a real difference. There are 32 such countries globally, home to over half a billion …
Sanctioned nations are secretly mining Bitcoin and the clues are in the hash rate
HIVE Digital co-founder Frank Holmes stated this week that several sanctioned nations are actively mining Bitcoin (BTC) in secret, turning to the crypto as an alternative revenue stream in the face of U.S. financial restrictions. Holmes made the claims during a recent interview with the Roundtable. He tied a recent …
Nation’s Top Public High School ‘Violated’ Law By Sharing Info With Chinese Group, Emails Show
Staff at one of America’s top public high schools appeared to have violated Virginia law by sharing its intellectual property with an organization that took millions of dollars from Chinese entities looking to “clone” the school, according to emails reviewed by The Daily Wire. New emails obtained by Defending Education …
Child labor falls sharply, even in nations that fail to enforce bans on child labor
child coal minors in 19th century Prussia. The number of child laborers has fallen by 44% across the world since 2000, even as the world’s population has grown. There were 137.6 million child laborers in 2024, down from 245.5 million in 2000, says the International Labor Organization. Meanwhile, the world’s …
The Battle of Nations – American Renaissance
Credit Image: © Jonathan Alcorn/ZUMA Press Wire Are there any progressives left? Were there ever any? Nearly everyone is a blood-and-soil nationalist for people they like. They may claim that they are individuals, that nations aren’t real, or that borders are artificial, but almost everyone has an exception. For certain …
How Should the United Nations Respond to Its Funding Crisis? — Global Issues
The world needs the UN, now more than ever. But we have also experienced firsthand how maddeningly inefficient and bureaucratic it can be. No wonder some critics want to defund it, the authors argue. Credit: United Nations Opinion by Felix Dodds, Chris Spence (san francisco, california / apex, north carolina, us) …
Stuck in the middle? Indebted nations plot path to growth amid global trade upheaval — Global Issues
The High-Level Conference of Middle-Income Countries (MICs), held on 28 and 29 April, was attended by senior representatives from 24 MICs, many of which are highly indebted, leaving them little room for spending on developing their economies. Since 2000, only 27 countries transitioned from middle income to high-income status, and …
BRICS Nations Accelerate Efforts to Establish New International Payment System to Fight Back Against U.S. Tariffs
Original Background Image Source. by Brian ShilhavyEditor, Health Impact News Pepe Escobar, the Brazilian international journalist, recently returned from his visit to China where he spent time in Shanghai and Hong Kong, home to the two largest ports in China. He was interviewed by Danny Haiphong, and I am including …
Trump imposes wildly varying ‘reciprocal’ tariffs that aren’t reciprocal at all and punish friendly nations with few trade barriers
Kangaroos fight in Australia. Image from YouTube. Today, President Trump imposed hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs on the countries of the world, that vary enormously from nation to nation. He calls them “reciprocal” tariffs, but they aren’t reciprocal at all. Trump increased tariffs even on friendly countries that …
New York Times belatedly admits COVID cover-up; elites lied about lab leak, which was known early on to multiple nations’ governments
Image: CDC Today, “The New York Times published an op-ed blasting scientists and government officials for covering up evidence that COVID-19 likely originated from a gain-of-function lab leak. Five years too late. The piece condemns Francis Collins, Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak, Jeremy Farrar, Kristian Andersen, the authors of the Proximal …
United Nations Judge Is Convicted of Forcing Young Woman to Work as Her Slave
A United Nations judge has been convicted of forcing a young woman to work as a slave. Prosecutors said Lydia Mugambe, 49, took ‘advantage of her status’ over her victim in the ‘most egregious way’ by preventing her from holding down steady employment and forcing her to work as her …
United Nations New Efficiency Initiative is Aiming for Structural Changes to Operations — Global Issues
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres at the launch of the UN80 initiative. Credit: Naureen Hossain/IPS by Naureen Hossain (united nations) Wednesday, March 12, 2025 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Mar 12 (IPS) – The United Nations chief announced on Wednesday (March 12) a new initiative that aims to assess areas of …
President Trump to Reinstate Ban on Immigration From High-Risk Jihad Nations
President Trump to reinstate his ban on immigrant travelers to the U.S. from high-risk Muslim nations, including: Somalia, Iran, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Pakistan, Yemen and Afghanistan…. I hope religious minorities from those regions will be given the chance to escape Muslim persecution and death. Above: Our bus campaign that ran …
Shutting Down USAID Threatens to Endanger World’s Poorer Nations — Global Issues
by Thalif Deen (united nations) Thursday, February 13, 2025 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Feb 13 (IPS) – The Trump administration’s decision to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the US government’s primary channel for humanitarian aid and disaster relief, is expected to have a devastating impact on the …
Populist Revolts in Western Nations | Albert Mohler
In this clip, Mohler talks about the differences between populism and conservatism. Dr Albert Mohler is President of the Southern … source
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