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– Inter Press Service
MADRID, Jan 16 (IPS) – It’s not a secret that at main international summits there are extra lobbyists than official delegates. There, they take part as ‘company,’ and most of them work for large enterprise companies. Their aim? To discourage the adoption of insurance policies that battle with their employers’ pursuits.
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– Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan 16 (IPS) – In anticipation of Donald Trump’s inauguration his gold-studded Florida property, Mar-a-Lago, is on the coronary heart of political energy video games, the place influential businessmen like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are positioning themselves as key gamers in his orbit.
Apparently unfazed by authorized controversies and scandals, Trump is getting ready for his return in collusion with already highly effective males, who of their pursuit of private achieve and political affect replicate a disturbing development of billionaire oligarchy merging with politics. A worrying improvement which may have important penalties for the way forward for free speech and girls’s rights.
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– Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 16 (IPS) – A ceasefire settlement between the states of Israel and Palestine was reached on 15 January, 2025 , successfully placing an finish to hostilities within the Gaza Strip. This comes after practically 15 months of battle, which has prompted immense harm to Palestinian infrastructure, improvement, and civilian life. The three-phase plan proposed for the ceasefire settlement consists of the return of Israeli hostages, Palestinian refugees returning dwelling, and the reconstruction of Gaza. Moreover, the ceasefire is predicted to primarily put an finish to the Israel-Hamas Battle and considerably mitigate the humanitarian disaster occurring within the Gaza Strip.
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– Inter Press Service
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, US, Jan 16 (IPS) – Using fertilizers has been launched in society to complement soil and provide high-grade harvests for hundreds of years. As time went on, people have managed to develop new methods to reform this operation, and as such, have fashioned a lessened well being danger fertilizer known as “biosolids”.
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– Inter Press Service
MOSCOW, Jan 16 (IPS) – With heightening geopolitical curiosity in constructing a brand new World South structure, Ghana’s administration is contemplating becoming a member of the ‘associate states class’ of BRICS+, an affiliation of 5 main rising economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
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– Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 16 (IPS) – Because the United Nations plans to commemorate its eightieth anniversary later this 12 months, it’s “reflecting on the steps taken to advance implementation of the Secretary-Basic’s Strategic Motion Plan for addressing racism within the UN Secretariat.
The UN’s Anti-Racism Workplace, which was created in 2023, has hosted a number of on-line occasions that reached over 13,500 individuals and generated 2,000 feedback, and welcomed 2,700 guests to its iSeek web page (accessible solely by staffers)—presumably a mirrored image of the rising complaints and considerations of UN staffers.
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– UN Information
The UN Safety Council on Thursday handed a decision to resume the mandate of the Panel of Consultants (PoE) of the 1970 Libya Sanctions Committee which additionally extends measures associated to the illicit export of petroleum from oil-rich Libya, initially authorised in 2014.
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– UN Information
The world is going through a rare convergence of crises that has left 305 million folks in pressing want of humanitarian help.
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– UN Information
The UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights expressed solidarity with the folks of Lebanon and Syria on Thursday, acknowledging the traumas each nations have endured over a long time.
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The embattled folks of Ukraine and people pressured overseas want $3.32 billion in lifesaving and sustained humanitarian help to assist them cope as a fourth 12 months of battle looms after Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, UN support chiefs stated on Thursday.
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