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Palestinians yearn for ‘a return to normal life,’ says top Middle East peace envoy 
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Palestinians yearn for ‘a return to normal life,’ says top Middle East peace envoy
The UN is continuing efforts to support Palestinians in Gaza amid major challenges to humanitarian access, reconstruction and the restoration of essential services, according...
VICTORIA, Seychelles, October 1 (IPS) – From a distance, an island nation can appear to possess everything: pristine waters, a thriving tourism industry and...
How to Protect Coastal Communities From Tide-Related Loss and Damage in Bangladesh
SHYAMNAGAR (Satkhira), Bangladesh, October 1 (IPS) – Villagers rush to the vulnerable spot of the embankment—early warning of the rising tide has alerted them....
Afghanistan’s Drought Deepens, and Women Bear the Heaviest Burden
KABUL, October 1 (IPS) – Drought has depleted wells, withered fruit trees, and reduced crop yields across Afghanistan. The heaviest burden of the water...
Here’s how brain-eating amoebas may infect people
Naegleria amoebas’ exploration skills and crawling behaviors could help explain how the brain-eating variety travel into human brains.
A video of a humpback whale and her dead calf reveals the animals’ bond
A female humpback whale may have spent days with her stillborn calf. This rare sighting may suggest that baleen whales experience grief.
Could a new global panel defuse inequality’s ‘ticking time bomb’?
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Homicides fall as organised crime grows more profitable – and networked
Homicide rates are falling across much of the world, but organised crime is on the rise in many regions as criminal networks diversify into...
Somali families face renewed violence amid worsening hunger crisis
Children have been killed and injured in fresh fighting in Baidoa, in Somalia’s South West State, where families were already facing severe hunger and...
World News in Brief: Storm clouds over Gaza, deadly obstacles face Mexican women rights defenders, Latvia booze ban proves lifesaver
UN teams are racing to protect families in Gaza from the coming rainy season, but restricted access to land and shortages of critical supplies...