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Asia’s Energy Progress Is Great, But Must Pick Up Pace

2026-08-10T07:29:32-07:00

MELBOURNE, Australia, August 10 (IPS) - In much of the Asia-Pacific region, energy is a success story. Electricity access has greatly increased and the use of clean cooking fuels is now widespread. The region has kept pace with the rest of the world in adopting renewable energy. Many countries have made energy efficiency gains; the Republic of Korea is one of those in the lead worldwide. Progress has continued even in the face of recent energy crises sparked by the war in Ukraine and conflict over the Strait of Hormuz.

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Palestinian Children Deserve Education, not Ethnic Cleansing

2026-08-10T06:49:08-07:00

ROME, August 10 (IPS) - World News are more or less currently fully occupied with the U.S. – Iran debacle and to a lesser degree the Gaza genocide, the on-going war in Ukraine, and to an even lesser degree the one in Sudan.

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Humanitarian aid warehouses come under attack in Ukraine

2026-08-10T05:00:00-07:00

Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine has left civilians vulnerable to repeated deadly attacks and humanitarian workers and key facilities being targeted and destroyed.

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Sudan: ‘It made me dream again’: The students refusing to let war stop their education

2026-08-09T05:00:00-07:00

Sarah Tekhlu was ready to give up on university. An Eritrean refugee, she had already been displaced once from Khartoum to Madani, then again to Port Sudan, as war tore through the country around her. Higher education, she had decided, was a luxury she could no longer afford to want.

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Hiroshima’s Question: Will We Continue to Live Under the Nuclear Shadow?

2026-08-07T07:08:24-07:00

HIROSHIMA, Japan, August 7 (IPS) - This year’s Hiroshima Peace Declaration did not begin with words of remembrance alone. It opened instead with what the declaration called “military invasions using nuclear weapons as tools of intimidation,” “imperious actions by major powers in violation of international law,” and the failure of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, Review Conference — for the third consecutive time — to adopt a final document.

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Burkina Faso’s Cancelled Democracy

2026-08-07T05:58:03-07:00

LONDON, August 7 (IPS) - Burkina Faso’s charismatic young military leader, army captain Ibrahim Traoré, has stopped pretending. In April, he declared that people should ‘forget about the question of democracy’ because ‘democracy isn’t for us’. When Traoré seized power in September 2022, ousting a leader who’d staged a coup earlier that year, he promised elections by June 2024. The junta broke that pledge, pushing any transition back to 2029. Now Traoré has confirmed he has no intention of restoring democracy. Instead, Burkina Faso’s military junta is tightening its repression, while working with neighbouring states to internationalise its dangerously undemocratic model.

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US Arms Stockpiles Hit by Iran War

2026-08-07T04:55:04-07:00

UNITED NATIONS, August 7 (IPS) - The highly- unpredictable five-month-old US-Iran war has been plagued by on-again, off-again peace agreements — with such monotonous regularity — the conflict seems never ending. But according to several news reports, the US faces a new threat — it may soon run out of key weapons systems.

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Rohingya Refugees Seeking Safe Haven in Bangladesh Hit by Fresh Disasters

2026-08-06T06:23:33-07:00

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, August 6 (IPS) - Abdu Rozork awoke suddenly to the sound of children screaming. Heavy monsoon rains had sent a landslide barrelling into the section of their bamboo shelter where the women and children were sleeping.

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‘A clear violation’: Guterres deplores deadliest attack on Kyiv this year

2026-08-06T05:00:00-07:00

UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned on Wednesday the deadliest Russian strikes on Kyiv this year, which killed 17 people and caused extensive damage to civilian infrastructure overnight.

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Cuba: Independent experts condemn new US sanctions as humanitarian crisis deepens

2026-08-06T05:00:00-07:00

Independent UN human rights experts on Thursday condemned a fresh round of US sanctions against Cuba, calling them an attempt to force change on “a sovereign State through threats and coercion.”

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