The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) said two medical workers were killed in an attack Wednesday at an ambulance centre in Ma’aret Hurmeh, a town in Idlib province. Courtesy: Syrian American Medical Society By James ReinlUNITED NATIONS, ...

Students in Primary Seven at Zanaki Primary School in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania during an English language class. Credit: Sarah Farhat/World Bank. By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Aug 16 2019 – The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) is convinced ...

The Kuwait Institute of Scientific Research. Credit: IAEA Imagebank/CC By 2.0 By Tengfei WangBANGKOK, Aug 16 2019 (IPS) The success of Silicon Valley has been inspirational for many countries worldwide wishing to establish science and technology ...

By Ruth RichardsonTORONTO, Canada, Aug 16 2019 – The special report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)  on climate and land, launched last week, makes it clear that without drastic changes in land use, agriculture ...

Romário Schaefer, 65, stands between the biodigester buried in the ground on the right and the blue tank holding whey that is mixed with the manure of the pigs he fattens in a row of pig pens (top left) to produce biogas, in the southern Brazilian ...

The first Geneva Convention protects wounded and sick soldiers on land during war. Courtesy: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) By James ReinlUNITED NATIONS, Aug 14 2019 – World governments are not doing enough to stop armed ...

Members of the Samburu tribe in Kenya. Samburu women pastoralists are affected by climate change. By Sharon Birch-Jeffrey, Africa RenewalNAIROBI, Aug 14 2019 – For many people, climate change is about shrinking glaciers, rising sea levels, ...

The UN General Assembly in session. By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Aug 14 2019 – When Yassir Arafat was denied a US visa to visit New York to address the United Nations back in 1988, the General Assembly defied the United States by temporarily ...