COLOMBO, Jun 5, 2022 (IPS) - When it comes to expressing the threat to food security posed by changing climate patterns and extreme weather events in Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) does not mince its words. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=108032
BANGKOK, Jun 5, 2022 (IPS) - When Thai police raided the headquarters of the popular alternative news portal ‘Prachatai’ and arrested its executive director, Chiranuch Premchaiporn, back in 2009, the 46-year-old media worker was completely in the dark about her crime. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=108035
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 5, 2022 (IPS) - When the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) takes place in Brazil next week, it will be closely shadowed by another event thousands of kilometres away in the South Korean coastal town of Yeosu:…
HUAFAT REFUGEE CAMP, Occupied East Jerusalem, Jun 6, 2022 (IPS) - A group of Palestinian Jerusalemites steps down from a crowded bus to let two Israeli soldiers climb aboard to check identity cards, below the aluminum roof of this newly operational checkpoint…
Thousands of Ivorian children were separated from their parents during the post-election violence in 2011. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=108046
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Opposition decries bill which will raise maximum fine to $9,000 for citizens taking part in unsanctioned rallies.
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Thirteen months after Osama bin Laden was killed, the loss of charismatic propagandist Abu Yahya al-Libi is a crippling blow to al-Qaeda that could break up its central leadership, US experts say. Killed on Monday in a CIA drone strike in…