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How Child Labour Persists Along Zanzibar’s Blue Economy
- Inter Press Service
KIWENGWA, Tanzania, March 2 (IPS) - As the tide falls on Zanzibar’s western coast, 13-year-old Asha* moves across the reef, her gown flapping in knee-deep water. She carries a plastic basin and a knife. Since dawn, Asha has been prying octopus and scaling fish for drying and selling.
‘AI Kid of India’ urges young people to embrace technology
- UN News
16-year-old Raul John Aju – dubbed the “AI Kid of India” at home – is a business prodigy who advises government and industry and has created several innovative AI tools.
Climate Change Is Coming for Your Morning Coffee
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, February 27 (IPS) - Your morning cup of coffee could soon cost more, thanks to climate change, which is raising the heat on the production of the world’s most loved beverage.
Massive US War Spending Hike Raises Debt, Taxes, Doubts
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, February 27 (IPS) - As US President Donald Trump pushes the world to war, arms spending has been rising worldwide. Wars secure more budgetary allocations, mainly benefiting the US-dominated military-industrial complex.
Generative AI Could Deepen Inequality, Revenue Losses in Creative Industries
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, February 25 (IPS) - As generative artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly expands across nearly every sector of society, those that work in cultural and creative industries are expected to bear some of the greatest losses. With AI-generated content projected to dominate global markets in the coming years, combined with a lack of strong regulatory frameworks to protect intellectual property and AI’s ability to produce content quickly at a low cost, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) warns that generative AI may become a major driver of inequality, threatening the livelihoods of millions of cultural workers around the world.
World News in Brief: Arab economies rise, rights experts call for police reform in India, Ukraine school closures, Myanmar airstrikes
- UN News
A new UN report forecasts that the Arab region is seeing a gradual economic recovery despite continuing geopolitical uncertainties.
Organized crime and poor regulation to blame for toxic pollution threat
- UN News
The lucrative, illegal trade and trafficking of waste products including many that are toxic could be set to surge across continents, thanks to patchy regulation, savvy criminal groups and corruption, UN experts said on Wednesday.
Iran: A Regime with Nothing Left but Force
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, February 24 (IPS) - The Islamic Republic of Iran has put down another uprising, with a ferocity that makes previous crackdowns seem restrained. The theocratic regime has survived, but it has done so by substituting violence for the economic security it cannot provide and the political legitimacy it no longer has. Its show of force is also an admission of weakness.
Trump Tariffs Creating Less Manufacturing Jobs
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, February 24 (IPS) - President Donald Trump has shaken up the world economy and the rule of international law in the first year of his second term – ostensibly to make America great again, particularly by reviving US manufacturing jobs.
Ukraine wakes to more violence as Russia's invasion enters fifth year
- UN News
The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops on 24 February 2022 shattered the peaceful aspirations of an entire continent, but war must never be the new normal, UN General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday.
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