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NAIROBI, Aug 14 2023 (IPS) - Two years ago, the then 19-year-old Somaya Faruqi and the Afghan Robotic Team travelled from Herat City to Kabul, the heart of Afghanistan—the Taliban...

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 11 2023 (IPS) - Did you know that the power of computers has been doubling roughly every two years since the 1960s? Every day it seems there’s...

NEW YORK, Aug 12 2023 (IPS) - To save our people and our planet from the life-threatening risks of the climate crisis, we must invest in the education of today’s...

Climate change has already led to increased temperatures and rising sea-levels in Tanzania and without major investments in adaptation, nearly a million Tanzanians in coastal towns are at risk of...

New Delhi (Agency): Nepal's government announced on Monday that it is considering raising the fee for foreigners who wish to climb Mount Everest. The proposed fee would increase by $4,000,...

Meta-Man versus X-Man. The Mark Zuckerberg-Elon Musk fight everybody was waiting for is off. The two gladiator billionaires with too much on their plates but not enough patience to make...

Late last week, the Chinese Coast Guard deployed water cannon against Philippines ships on a military resupply run in the South China Sea. The Philippines described this incident, which took...

US Attorney General Merrick Garland, who works for President Joe Biden, desperately wants the world to know that the government’s investigation of his boss’ son is utterly apolitical. America’s top...

New Delhi (Agency): The more the U.S. pumps into the war in Ukraine and other military operations around the world, the richer the dangerous and erratic Elon Musk becomes. Already...

New Delhi (Agency): Across the continent we have seen uprisings and armed rebellions by anti-colonialist military leaders who have sought to reclaim their sovereignty from European imperialist powers, particularly France....

New Delhi (Agency): France has been kicked out of Niger by its new military government, by extension placing US interests there in peril. Who would ever have thought that the...

Ecuador will vote for a new President and a national assembly on August 20 this year. Indications from the opinion polls just ten days before polling suggest that the Left...