UN Indonesia Solar power is widely used on the islands of Java, Madura, and Bali. Credit: UN News By Delia PaulMELBOURNE, Australia, Aug 10 2026 – In much of the Asia-Pacific region, energy is a success story. Electricity access has greatly increased and the use of clean cooking fuels is now widespread. The region has kept pace with the rest of the world in adopting renewable energy. Many countries...

By CIVICUSAug 10 2026 –   CIVICUS discusses India’s Cockroach Janta Party movement with Harshit Singh, a young activist, poet and storyteller who took part in protests in Delhi. Harshit Singh In May, India’s Chief Justice, Surya Kant, compared unemployed young people to cockroaches. The Cockroach Janta Party was born when a Gen Z movement took the insult as its name. It rapidly gained...

Peter George attaching the solar lights and panels on the plastic design bags. Credit: Madina Kula Sheriff/IPS By Madina Kula SheriffFREETOWN, Aug 10 2026 – Growing up, Peter George, a young innovator in Bo District in Southern Region, Sierra Leone, watched people dump electronic waste near the farmland where his grandmother cultivated crops. He told IPS that people would dump electronic waste,...

By Jan LundiusROME, Aug 10 2026 – World News are more or less currently fully occupied with the U.S. – Iran debacle and to a lesser degree the Gaza genocide, the on-going war in Ukraine, and to an even lesser degree the one in Sudan. When Trump and Netanyahu recently met it is likely that the situation on the West Bank was not even on the agenda. This is the reality of international high-level...