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Wildfires surge across Europe as Spain and France battle major blazes
- UN News
The amount of land burned by wildfires across Europe has increased by 57 per cent in four years, according to new data from the World Health Organization (WHO) in Europe.
In El Obeid, Sudanese women face drones by day, rape by night, to reach water
- UN News
In El Obeid, women and girls now face an impossible choice over something as basic as a bucket of water: risk a drone strike by collecting it in daylight, or risk rape by waiting until dark.
Hunger in Latin America Keeps Falling – Now Healthy Diets Must Become Affordable
- Inter Press Service
ROME, July 23 (IPS) - Hunger is falling across most of Latin America and the Caribbean. The region’s next challenge is harder: ensuring that everyone can afford a healthy diet, not merely enough calories to survive.
Food and Transport Costs through Strait of Hormuz Remain High, Burdening Vulnerable Economies
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, July 23 (IPS) - Prior to the latest round of hostilities between the United States and Iran, freight traffic had been increasing in the Strait of Hormuz, and negotiations were underway for a new agreement to fully restore trade through this channel.
Human-Caused Climate Change, Not El Niño, Drives Most Coral Bleaching Events – Research
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, July 23 (IPS) - Every morning, as the Indian Ocean retreats from the reef off Zanzibar’s Jambiani village, Chiku Chande steps into the knee-deep lagoon carrying bundles of seaweed seedlings. Years of farming these waters have taught her about every channel and coral outcrop. But lately, the corals that once glowed in brown and gold have become chalky white.
Trump’s Authoritarian Gambit to Muzzle the Foreign Press
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, July 23 (IPS) - Under a new rule proposed by the Department of Homeland Security, the duration of “I visas” for foreign media will be slashed from renewable multi year periods—often up to five years—to a maximum of 240 days, and just 90 days for Chinese journalists. Renewals would no longer be a routine administrative step tied to continued employment and compliance with the law, but a discretionary privilege the government can grant or withhold at will.
Syria ‘not alone’ in locating missing persons, tackling displacement
- UN News
Syria is not alone in tackling challenges, including the hundreds of thousands who remain missing during past tumultuous decades, the head of a UN institution said on Thursday as António Guterres departs on his first visit to the country in his current capacity as Secretary-General.
Iran urged to stop protest-related executions
- UN News
Independent UN human rights investigators on Thursday called for Iran to immediately halt the execution of 10 men who took part in a protest in the central city of Isfahan earlier this year, warning that some of their relatives have already been called for final visits.
World News in Brief: New ECOSOC chief, Secretary-General candidates’ debate, torture in Mali, drowning prevention
- UN News
Amar Bendjama, Permanent Representative of Algeria to the UN, was elected on Thursday to serve as the next president of the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
Satellites can now spot methane leaks in real time – but most go unfixed
- UN News
Satellites can now spot major methane leaks from space within days. Yet only 13 per cent of those alerts lead to any response from the governments or companies responsible.
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