News headlines in 2025, page 3

  1. Carter’s Virtue Trumps Mendacity

    - Inter Press Service

    ATLANTA, Georgia, Jan 03 (IPS) - The fireplace in the State Dining Room of the White House that says, “May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.” President John Adams wrote that in a letter to his wife Abigail in 1800.

  2. Tanzania’s Disaster Preparedness: A Nation on Edge

    - Inter Press Service

    DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 03 (IPS) - As the dust settled over Kariakoo’s bustling streets, Halima Abdallah’s voice trembled through the cracks of a collapsed four-story building. “Help me, please! I don’t get air,” she gasped, trapped under the rubble. For four hours, rescue workers scrambled to locate her. Their efforts, hampered by the lack of proper equipment, relied on tools hastily borrowed from a private company. By the time they reached her, it was too late. Abdallah had died.

  3. A Renewed Vision for Prosperity for Landlocked Developing Countries

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Jan 03 (IPS) - Over 570 million people live in the world’s 32 Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs), spanning across Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. These nations face unique and complex development challenges. Their lack of direct access to the sea, geographical isolation, limited infrastructure, and difficulty integrating into global trade and value chains hinder sustainable development and progress.

  4. ‘Hospitals have become battlegrounds’: Gaza’s health system on brink of collapse

    - UN News

    With seven per cent of the population killed or injured since October 2023, the health crisis in Gaza shows no signs of abating.

  5. UN continues to call for timely Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon

    - UN News

    Operations by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) north of the UN-monitored Blue Line in southern Lebanon have continued, according to the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, UNIFIL.

  6. Haiti gangs crisis: Top rights expert decries attacks on hospitals

    - UN News

    The UN’s top expert on human rights in Haiti on Friday condemned “intentional” attacks on hospitals, clinics and healthcare workers by armed gangs there, warning that medical facilities were already “near collapse”.

  7. MIDDLE EAST CRISIS LIVE: Security Council holds emergency meeting on collapse of Gaza health system

    - UN News

    The UN Security Council is meeting in emergency session at 10am in New York on the collapse of health services in Gaza. The meeting was called by Algeria, the leading voice for the Arab world on the Council which has just taken the gavel as president for the month of January. A senior official from the World Health Organization (WHO) briefed ambassadors alongside High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk. App users can follow here.

  8. Syria crisis: UN teams support cholera vaccination in northeastern camps

    - UN News

    In northeast Syria, UN teams pressed ahead with a lifesaving cholera vaccine campaign in Al Hol detention camp complex on Friday, despite rumours of attacks by ISIL extremists and uncertainty across the war-torn country, following the overthrow of the Assad regime.

  9. ‘Digital platforms amplify the Israeli narrative while systematically silencing Palestinian voices’

    - Inter Press Service

    Jan 02 (IPS) - CIVICUS discusses the challenges Palestinian civil society faces in resisting digital suppression and advocating for justice with Palestinian lawyer and researcher Dima Samaro.

  10. Who Will Save Nigeria's Coastal City on the Brink of Extinction?

    - Inter Press Service

    AYETORO, Nigeria, Jan 02 (IPS) - In 2021, Ojajuni Olufunsho, a 53-year-old resident of Ayetoro, a town along the Atlantic coast, southwestern Nigeria, saw her home swept away by the encroaching sea. What was once a spacious 10-room house, a sanctuary for Olufunsho and her five children, was swallowed by the relentless force of rising sea waters.

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