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Systematic Vilification of Russian LGBTQ+ Community Pushes Them Underground
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, June 16 (IPS) - LGBTQ+ people in Russia are being forced to increasingly use self-censoring strategies in their daily lives as they struggle with systemic vulnerability, one of the largest surveys of the LGBTQ+ community in the country has shown.
This Is Not Just Ukraine: The Global Danger of Normalising Russia’s Occupation Crimes
- Inter Press Service
KYIV, June 16 (IPS) - People often discuss Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine in terms of drones, missiles, shifting front lines, and territorial borders. But this war has another dimension — the human one.
The Last Bottle of Halothane: Why Africa Cannot Wait
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA Uganda, June 16 (IPS) - Global health has a habit of mobilizing around the visible and the dramatic. Ebola, malaria, and Mpox have all dominated headlines related to Africa in recent years, and understandably so. But nobody is talking about one of the most consequential regional health crises waiting to happen.
From Victoria to Mombasa: Will Africa’s Ocean Voice Be Heard?
- Inter Press Service
VICTORIA, Seychelles, June 15 (IPS) - Tomorrow, Africa hosts the Our Ocean Conference on its own shores for the first time, in Mombasa. This is more than a diplomatic milestone. It is a test of whether we, as Africans, are prepared to safeguard our ocean as a shared heritage and a pillar of our future prosperity.
World Cup Preparation Scores a Goal against the Environment
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, June 15 (IPS) - The construction of an elevated pedestrian bridge connecting central and southern Mexico City –one of roughly 2,000 urban works tied to the 2026 FIFA World Cup, began last October, and, with only days to go before the tournament’s kickoff, remains unfinished.
How the G7 Can Reset Global Finance
- Inter Press Service
When G7 leaders arrive in Evian-les-Bains this month, France will host more than another summit. It will host a test of whether rich-country coordination can still solve problems that no country can manage alone. Aid budgets are shrinking, debt-service bills are crowding out investment, climate shocks are damaging infrastructure, and private capital remains scarce and expensive where it is needed most.
Chatbots & AI Companions: From Science Fiction to Everyday Reality
- Inter Press Service
PORTLAND, USA, June 15 (IPS) - AI chatbots and AI companions designed to simulate human-like conversation and provide relationships and companionship through generative artificial intelligence (AI) have rapidly evolved from science fiction into everyday reality.
Erdoğan’s Race to Avoid Orbán’s Fate
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, June 15 (IPS) - When Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán lost by a landslide to a unified opposition in April, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was watching. The lesson he drew was not that he should be more moderate; it was that he needed to crack down harder. He had already arrested Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP)’s leading presidential contender, in March 2025. After Orbán’s defeat, he has accelerated his campaign to fracture the opposition and rewrite the rules before the next election in 2028.
Nuclear Nonproliferation Outcomes Stall in Backdrop of Geopolitical Strife
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, June 15 (IPS) - On principle, the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons is an issue that unites the international community. But for a select few states, these principles came with conditions and a refusal to compromise on their security strategy.
World News in Brief: Risky return home in Lebanon, displacement in Gaza, emergency funding for Somalia
- UN News
Despite the agreement announced on Sunday between the United States and Iran, displaced people in Lebanon continue to face difficulties in returning to their communities, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported.
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