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  1. Who Should be the Next UN Leader? - PART 3

    - Inter Press Service

    APEX, North Carolina / DUBLIN, Ireland, Apr 17 (IPS) - A third possible candidate for UN Secretary-General is Alicia Bárcena. Mexico’s current Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Bárcena boasts a professional background that is both broad and deep.

  2. Conflict’s Long Shadow Has a Name: It’s Hunger

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW YORK, Apr 16 (IPS) - Scarce food and drinking water. Limited and inconsistent healthcare. Rapidly deteriorating mental health. With conflict on the rise globallythis is the grim reality for millions around the world.

  3. Who Should be the Next UN Leader? - PART 2

    - Inter Press Service

    APEX, North Carolina / DUBLIN, Ireland, Apr 16 (IPS) - When the conversation turns to who might replace António Guterres as UN Secretary-General, the name of Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, is on many insiders’ lips. In addition to being Prime Minister, she also serves as her country’s Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment, as well as its Minister of National Security and Public Service.

  4. Leaders Need to Break the Chokehold of Debt and Austerity. Our Health Depends on it

    - Inter Press Service

    WASHINGTON DC, Apr 15 (IPS) - As leaders gather for the Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank amid the cherry blossom trees of Washington, DC, there is some good news to celebrate.

  5. Who Should be the Next UN Leader? - Part 1

    - Inter Press Service

    APEX, North Carolina / DUBLIN, Ireland, Apr 15 (IPS) - Could a UN insider take the top job? Amina J. Mohammed is the current Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. She has been in the role since early 2017, making her something of a veteran within senior circles.

  6. Rwanda: A Ravaged Country That Bounced Back

    - Inter Press Service

    BLAGOEVGRAD, Bulgaria, Apr 11 (IPS) - As we contemplate the clouded futures of Gaza, Ukraine, and other dire conflict zones that get far less coverage, it may be instructive to recall the surprising success story of a ravaged country that bounced back: Rwanda.

  7. Stories from the UN Archive: UN-identified flying objects in space

    - UN News

    From the General Assembly’s first consideration of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) to welcoming astronauts fresh from a walk on the Moon, this #ThrowbackThursday, we looked back at the UN’s role in the space age ahead of the International Day of Human Space Flightmarked annually on 12 April.

  8. Make 2024 a ‘turning point’ for education, UN deputy chief urges

    - UN News

    The UN Deputy Secretary-General on Thursday called for a transformation in learning, stressing that receiving a good education represents hope for all future generations.

  9. When the Man Who Built the Bombs Met the Man Who Dropped the Bombs

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Apr 10 (IPS) - The award-winning Hollywood movie Oppenheimer portrays the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who helped create the atomic bomb, which claimed the lives of an estimated 140,000 to 226,000 people and devastated the two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

  10. China, India & Sri Lanka Embroiled in the Geo-Politics of the Indian Ocean

    - Inter Press Service

    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Apr 10 (IPS) - Unfortunately, a rivalry that should not exist and did not exist historically between China and India is being stoked by the media and some policy makers, especially in the West. It is not too difficult to discern the Machiavellian geo-strategic objectives of this complex game plan.

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