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After news that former Trump campaign chairman and convicted felon Paul Manafort might rejoin Donald Trump’s campaign, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore) asked the DNI to declassify a Senate report with details about Manafort’s relationship with Russian government operatives. “It is critical that these details be made public to the greatest …

Opinion by Olivier De Schutter, Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva (washington dc) Friday, March 08, 2024 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC, Mar 08 (IPS) – Poverty is multidimensional. If we think of classical thinkers, Adam Smith referred to the basis of self-respect and the importance of being able to “appear in public without …

BioNTainers, facilities equipped to manufacture a range of mRNA-based vaccines have been inaugurated in Rwanda in December 2023. Credit: Supplied by Aimable Twahirwa (kigali) Monday, January 08, 2024 Inter Press Service KIGALI, Jan 08 (IPS) – An agreement signed between the Rwandan government and the Africa Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation (APTF) gives …

Veteran Nollywood actor, Zack Orji, is in critical condition in the ICU of the National Hospital in Abuja.   According to his friends who reached out to LIB to shed light on his condition, Orji, 63, can’t walk or talk, and all kinds of tests are being run on him …

Philippe Lazzarini was addressing an emergency summit convened by the League of Arab States and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation where he called for urgent support for civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory on three fronts. He called on leaders at the Arab-Islamic summit to “act now to change the trajectory” …

President Biden is trailing Donald J. Trump in five of the six most important battleground states one year before the 2024 election, suffering from enormous doubts about his age and deep dissatisfaction over his handling of the economy and a host of other issues, new polls by The New York …

At least two persons are in critical conditions after a school-turned-residential building in the Ketu area of Lagos partially collapsed on Sunday,September 17.    According to residents of the area, the building housing over 800 rooms with hundreds of residents known as Agboye Estate on Oduntan Street, Ketu, first caved …

Floods in Kenya’s Turkana County, Lodwar town. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPS. Opinion by Kennedy Mugochi (nairobi) Friday, September 01, 2023 Inter Press Service Kennedy Mugochi is Director of Hivos East Africa NAIROBI, Sep 01 (IPS) – As an African, I have seen first-hand the devastating effects of climate change. I have met …

The Thai authorities are working alongside UN agencies to not just improve the availability of services following the change in the way people are sentenced for drugs crimes, but also reduce the stigmatization of people who use drugs and ensure they have access to services where they feel comfortable. UN …

The San Diego Padres have been one of the biggest disappointments of the 2023 MLB season. Expected to cruise to a playoff spot, and potentially unseat the Los Angeles Dodgers atop the NL West, the Friars have instead underperformed during an uneven first half of the season. There have been …