US First Lady Melania Trump has called on ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel after he referred to her as an “expectant widow” in a sketch Read Full Article at RT.com
India says it is in talks with the US and Iran on the port of Chabahar amid complications stemming from the Middle East conflict Read Full Article at RT.com
NEW YORK, April 28 (IPS) - The veil has been lifted—but not the one you think.
Not the veil the West has spent decades weaponizing. The veil now exposed is the one that concealed Western feminism’s selective solidarity—its silence on the women it was never truly fighting for. The “othering” of women from the South West Asian and North African region. In other words: us.
Read the full story, “Solidarity for Whom?”, on globalissues.org →
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 28 (IPS) - As delegates from 191 countries, including the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, gathered Monday at UN headquarters for a month of diplomacy at the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the stakes could hardly be higher.
UNITED NATIONS, April 28 (IPS) - The race for the next UN Secretary-General has, so far, attracted only four candidates—perhaps with more to come in an unpredictable contest.
But most of the candidates have played it safe – avoiding controversial issues and circumventing the wrath of the US whose veto can demolish the chances of any candidate by a single stroke in the Security Council.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, April 28 (IPS) - The January 2026 US National Defense Strategy (NDS) departs significantly from those preceding it, including from Trump’s first term. Is it deliberately misleading? Or is actual policy, including war, being driven by other considerations?
Read the full story, “US Military Strategy Document Misleads. Deliberately?”, on globalissues.org →
This is the third part of a three-part commentary. In foreign relations, as in immigration, King Don the Con appears to be channeling King John the Bad and often surpassing him.
Read the full story, “No Kings? Meet King Don and King John Part 3 of 3”, on globalissues.org →
SAINT LUCIA, April 27 (IPS) - The gap between global environmental ambition and real-world progress is widening, with less than five years left to meet key climate and biodiversity targets.
UNITED NATIONS, April 27 (IPS) - The Eleventh Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will meet at the United Nations in New York from 27 April to 22 May 2026. State parties to the treaty will meet with the urgent aim of finding common ground on the issue of nonproliferation.