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In der U21-EM-Qualifikation stehen die letzten Spiele an. Die Mannschaft von Alex Frei hat nach wie vor Chancen auf ein direktes Ticket, muss dafür aber wohl Gruppenfavorit Frankreich schlagen. Gelingt das nicht, gehts im November um alles.

Aufatmen für E-Autofahrer: Der TCS zeigt ab sofort Preise von Ladestationen in seiner App. Dank Filtern wird der Vergleich einfacher und transparenter.

Die Skiqueen ist frisch verliebt. Nach monatelangen Gerüchten macht Lindsey Vonn die Liebe zu Matthieu Bailet öffentlich. Doch wer ist der Franzose, der ihr Herz höher schlagen lässt?

An der ZFF-Eröffnung war auch «Finance Guy» Roman dabei. Er äussert sich erstmals zum viralen Meme, das ihn über Nacht schweizweit bekannt gemacht hat.

Am Donnerstagnachmittag sind zwei Velofahrer in Feldbach (Gemeinde Hombrechtikon) frontal miteinander kollidiert. Die beiden wurden durch den Zusammenprall verletzt.

Bei Davos steigen die Sorgenfalten. In Langnau haben sie zu viele Ausländer, aber zu wenig Punkte. Beim ZSC stellt Tim Berni seine prominenten Verteidiger-Kollegen in den Schatten. Und spielt Dario Bürgler trotz Rücktritt noch immer? Hier kommt das neue Liga-Inside.

The pipeline would strengthen energy security in landlocked Ethiopia, while creating jobs at Djibouti's port.

Mit der Studie R8 Gordini Concept lotet Renault das Interesse an einem weiteren Retro-Elektroflitzer aus. Der R8 Gordini sorgte vor sechs Jahrzehnten im Rallyesport für Furore. Und bald auch als E-Flitzer auf unseren Strassen?

Er war einer der ersten grossen Stars der NBA und prägte den nordamerikanischen Basketball in dessen frühen Jahren. Nun ist Bob Pettit im Alter von 93 Jahren verstorben.

Andy Carroll, Ex-Stürmer des FC Liverpool, enthüllt in seinem neuen Buch, dass er 2021 Opfer eines sexuellen Übergriffs durch eine männliche Berühmtheit wurde. Der Täter wurde zu drei Jahren Haft verurteilt.

Die Nations League startet schwungvoll in die neue Kampagne. Ein Round-up zu den Aufregern der Donnerstags-Spiele.

Oscargewinnerin Susan Sarandon ist am Rand einer Demonstration in New York festgenommen worden. Auch eine bekannte Kollegin wurde von der Polizei abgeführt.

Le Bénin a présidé une session ministérielle du Conseil de paix et de sécurité (CPS) de l'Union africaine (UA), consacrée au bon voisinage et aux réponses régionales face aux défis sécuritaires et terroristes en Afrique. La rencontre s'est tenue en marge des travaux de la 81e session de l'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies.

Présidée par Corinne Amori Brunet, ministre béninoise des Affaires étrangères, la session s'est déroulée en présence de Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, président de la Commission de l'Union africaine. Elle a porté sur les enjeux liés à la coopération entre les États africains face aux menaces sécuritaires transfrontalières.
Les échanges ont notamment mis en avant l'importance du bon voisinage et de la coordination des réponses régionales pour faire face aux défis sécuritaires et à la menace terroriste sur le continent.

Aux côtés de plusieurs autres Premières dames lors de la 81e session de l'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies, la Première dame du Bénin, Nathalie Wadagni, a porté un message centré sur la résilience, la solidarité et la cohésion sociale. S'appuyant sur le symbole de la ‘'Jarre trouée'' du roi Ghézo, elle a exposé la capacité des Béninois à se « tenir ensemble » comme une réponse collective aux vulnérabilités et aux crises auxquelles la société est confrontée.

Nathalie Wadagni vante le symbole de la ‘'Jarre trouée'' du roi Ghézo comme un modèle de solidarité et de résilience. C'était à l'occasion ‘une session qui a réuni les Premières dames lors de la 81e session de l'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies. Pour préparer son intervention, la Première dame du Bénin a expliqué avoir échangé avec des jeunes, des acteurs de la société civile, des élus ainsi que des femmes et des hommes engagés dans l'action sociale. Ces rencontres l'ont conduite à placer « l'attention portée à l'autre » au cœur de la conception béninoise de la résilience.
Pour le Bénin, a-t-elle souligné, « le mot au cœur de la résilience est la cohésion ». Une cohésion qui ne se limite pas à l'harmonie sociale, mais qui constitue, selon elle, une véritable force d'action face aux difficultés.

La jarre trouée, symbole de la solidarité
Pour illustrer cette conception, la Première dame du Bénin s'est appuyée sur la ‘'jarre trouée'', symbole d'union associé au roi Ghézo. Selon cette conception, une jarre comportant de nombreux trous peut continuer à contenir de l'eau lorsque plusieurs personnes unissent leurs mains pour boucher les ouvertures.
Cette métaphore résume, selon la Première dame, une réalité essentielle : « ce qui est fragile seul peut devenir fort ensemble ». La jarre représente ainsi l'avenir commun, tandis que les trous symbolisent les vulnérabilités et les chocs auxquels les sociétés sont exposées. Les mains représentent, elles, la solidarité nécessaire pour préserver l'eau, associée à la vie, à la dignité et à l'espoir.
À travers cette conception, Nathalie Wadagni a voulu élargir la notion de résilience. Celle-ci ne devrait pas être considérée uniquement comme la capacité d'un individu à surmonter une épreuve, mais comme une « dynamique collective » fondée sur le soutien mutuel.

Une réponse collective aux vulnérabilités
Dans son intervention, la Première dame a notamment évoqué les femmes, les agricultrices, les entrepreneures, les leaders communautaires ainsi que les personnes handicapées. La cohésion, a-t-elle expliqué, permet aux communautés de mieux accompagner les personnes confrontées aux difficultés et de faire face à des situations telles que la pauvreté, les chocs climatiques, l'insécurité et l'incertitude.
Cette approche repose sur un principe : la vulnérabilité d'une personne ne peut être considérée comme une réalité isolée. Elle concerne l'ensemble de la communauté et appelle, par conséquent, une réponse collective.
« La cohésion nous demande à chacun de reconnaître que la vulnérabilité d'autrui nous affecte tous et que chacun de nous a une main à offrir », a-t-elle déclaré.
À travers cette vision, le Bénin entend ainsi apporter sa propre contribution au débat international sur la résilience. Une contribution qui met l'accent sur la solidarité et la responsabilité partagée plutôt que sur la seule capacité individuelle à surmonter l'adversité.
Par son intervention, Nathalie Wadagni a appelé à la construction de sociétés dans lesquelles la résilience ne serait pas « le fardeau de l'individu », mais « la responsabilité partagée de tous ». Elle a plaidé pour des communautés où « chaque main compte », afin de transformer les épreuves collectives en opportunités de bâtir un avenir plus juste, plus pacifique et porteur d'espoir.

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Putins Schattenflotte geht ein: Ein neuer Bericht zeigt, dass westliche Sanktionen und Beschlagnahmungen die Zahl der Tanker unter falscher Flagge massiv reduziert haben. Der Kreml reagiert.

Der FC Bayern plant offenbar einen Mega-Transfer: Dani Olmo, Spielmacher des FC Barcelona, soll zurück in die Bundesliga. Laut El Nacional locken die Münchner den 28-Jährigen mit einem millionenschweren Angebot.

Das langersehnte Debüt von Jürgen Klopp als Bundestrainer endet mit einem 1:1 gegen Holland. Was Klopp über das Spiel sagt und welche Holland-Legende vor allem wegen einer Szene tobt.

Participants at the fourth UN High-Level Meeting on the Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NCDs), held in September 2025. Credit: UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein

By Shreya Komar
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 2026 (IPS)

On September 21, just prior to the opening of the United Nations General Assembly Debate (UNGA81), the NCD Alliance held its fifth Multi-stakeholder Gathering, “Strategies for a Sustainable NCD and Mental Health Response,” during the UN High-level Week.

“This meeting may be on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, but the issues discussed here are central to the global health agenda,” emphasized Mary-Ann Etiebet, President and CEO of Vital Strategies and moderator of the event. She opened by highlighting the continuing global burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and the gap in funding and resources dedicated to addressing it.

The discussion centered on how countries can sovereignly lead, scale, sustain and strengthen their responses, with a particular emphasis on country ownership and “putting the country in the driver’s seat”.

The gathering focused on how countries can move from policy commitments to implementation and build sustainable responses to NCDs and mental health through governance, financing, and cross-sector partnerships.

Fleming Kondradsen, a panelist and Chief Scientific Officer at Novo Nordisk Foundation, emphasized the importance of supporting more horizontal approaches to health. Rather than creating parallel systems and new structures, he argued for strengthening and integrating NCD prevention and care into existing health systems wherever possible.

For Paula Johns, another panelist from Brazil and Executive Director of ACT Health Promotion Brazil, meaningful participation begins with a fundamental question: How do we include the public in public health? Maintaining strong relationships with communities, she argued, is essential to ensuring that health policies and interventions reflect the realities of the people they are intended to serve.

Johns also raised concerns about the growing pressures affecting young people in Brazil, describing a “mental health global pandemic”. Among the issues she highlighted were social media and sports betting, calling for greater attention and regulation of environments that can affect young people’s health and wellbeing.

The discussion reinforced the importance of looking beyond the health sector itself. Addressing NCDs and mental health requires collaboration across government, civil society, communities and other sectors that shape the environments in which people live.

For Prisca Githuka, founder of the Pink Hearts Cancer Support Foundation from Nairobi, Kenya, one of the most important questions when it comes to addressing NCDs and mental health is meaningfully engaging people with lived experience. Consulting people who have experienced a disease, she said, is only the beginning. Meaningful engagement means involving people with lived experience in co-creating solutions and participating directly in decision-making structures. This distinction, she noted, separates genuine participation from tokenism.

People with lived experience should not simply be invited to share their stories. They should have a meaningful role in shaping decisions that impact their health, and their contributions should be fairly compensated. Githuka also stressed the importance of measuring whether people’s input actually influences outcomes. Engagement should not end when feedback is collected. Instead, stakeholders should ask: What changed as a result of that feedback? And did the final implementation actually benefit the people with lived experience?

Her own advocacy work has included petitions and efforts to secure funding and support for cancer patients, including advocacy around oncology packages and the National Health Insurance Fund.

The emphasis on advocating for lived experience at the forefront of decision-making also highlighted the impact of smaller organizations and community-based groups. For many of these organizations, their most important contribution is their proximity to the communities affected by NCDs and mental health conditions. Their stories can provide insight into gaps that may not be visible in national strategies or global commitments.

For people with lived experience with NCDs and mental health conditions, being in the room is only the first step. The measure of meaningful engagement is whether they have a voice in decisions, whether that voice influences what happens next, and whether the resulting policies and services improve their lives.

IPS UN Bureau Report

 

 

 

 

Moderator Arif Ullah of Anthropocene Alliance joins LaTricea Adams of Young, Gifted, and Green; Dionne Delli-Gatti of Continuum Strategies; and Dr. Katlyn Turner of CU Boulder Information Science and KTLN Consulting to discuss AI’s environmental justice impacts and how frontline communities can maintain agency as data center development expands. Credit: Pillar Projects / Grayson Wise

By Oritro Karim
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 2026 (IPS)

On September 21, Frontline Resource Institute (FRI) hosted its Climate Justice Hub at Fordham University at Lincoln Center in New York City under the theme “Building a Stronger Climate Coalition.”

As part of Climate Week, and coinciding with the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, the event united advocates, researchers, policymakers, and frontline leaders to address the intensifying threat of climate change to global public health, while highlighting the need for stricter guardrails on artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, particularly in their impacts on frontline communities.

Arif Ullah, Executive Director of Anthropocene Alliance (A2) and a moderator at the event, referenced Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by journalist Karen Hao, noting her warning that AI functions as a “new form of colonialism.” Ullah emphasized that AI’s impacts on frontline communities and their environments is multifaceted and far-reaching, requiring far more robust physical infrastructure to be sustainable.

“In July, nearly 1,400 tech company employees signed an open letter urging the [U.S.] government to regulate AI. Recently, an Anthropic researcher quit his job warning that the people building AI believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” said Ullah. “When you consider the many ways in which [resources are] extracted, it’s hard to disagree. Hyperscale data centers are among the ways it’s most extracted, not to mention destructive. We are seeing them proliferate, unchecked and unregulated across the country.”

Numerous speakers at the event underscored that natural resources are routinely extracted from frontline communities with little regard for public health or the stability of local ecosystems. To meet the rapidly growing demands for continuous power, data centers around the world have increasingly implemented methane gas turbines. These measures have led to a surge in toxic chemical emissions—such as formaldehyde and benzene—driving widespread air and water pollution while consuming vast amounts of water.

Sarah Vogel, Senior Vice President of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and another moderator of the event, warned that extreme weather patterns—including intense heatwaves, prolonged flooding, destructive wildfires, degraded air and water quality, and the spread of infectious diseases—are among the most alarming and common consequences of AI-exacerbated climate change.

She emphasized that these impacts present heightened risks of lung cancer, heart disease, and strokes, particularly for frontline communities. Young people are uniquely vulnerable, as their developing bodies face continuous strain from pollutants without the opportunity to grow up in healthy environments. Those with pre-existing conditions also face a heightened risk of exacerbated health outcomes.

“For communities in this country and around the world who have experienced the legacy and ongoing impacts of environmental injustices, climate change and the related pollution is a threat magnifier,” said Vogel. “We know that when our health is impaired, it’s like a domino effect. Everything is impacted. Our ability to work, our ability to take care of children, the costs associated with it. The ability to just enjoy our lives. That is what we mean when we say that the climate crisis is a health crisis”

It is these frontline communities, oftentimes primarily composed of people of color, that are entrenched in severe environmental degradation and pushed further into poverty while others reap the financial benefits. Bearing the brunt of extreme pollution, these communities often lack the healthcare infrastructure required to withstand such environmental shocks.

LaTricea Adams, Founder, CEO, and President of Young, Gifted, and Green, noted that frontline communities are often left ill-equipped to adapt to AI-driven climate shocks, describing it as a “point of reckoning.” She emphasized that many residents are often unaware that they are on the frontlines of environmental degradation, going a “significant amount of time” without understanding the full extent of how these developments directly impact their lives.

“We as a collective are still not taking public health seriously. That also has an economic implication,” said Adams. “While you may bring in millions of dollars, if people are consistently sick, does that not have an impact on healthcare, which we know is lacking in our country and in our society?”

“What you’re not gonna do is come into our community and give us nothing but pollution while we remain in poverty. But at the same time, we do have to make sure that we protect the people that have been neglected for centuries in disinvestment.”

Several panelists underscored the importance of centering frontline communities in AI reform, with cooperation between governments, community leaders, corporations, and the health sector imperative in preventing harm and establishing sustainable practices that can uplift these communities. Vogel noted that in order to build healthy and resilient communities, approaches in AI regulation must prioritize health and equity to effectively minimize risks.

Panelist Ali Abazeed, Chief Public Health Officer and Director for the city of Detroit warned that the international community must not become “sophisticated witnesses” to preventable harm, noting that progress hinges on empowering communities and providing them with the data that affects their lives.

“Public health doesn’t happen inside an office. Comfort is comfortable. The ivory tower—the research generated there is hugely important but it has to roll out to the communities,” said Abazeed, emphasizing that action is critically important amidst widespread cuts to funding for research and potential hostile takeovers of national institutes for health.

“Speaking as a government official, we need to recognize that the work that we do and the powers that we have can help uplift and elevate communities. The charge is to be outside, to be in the clinic lobby for public health, in the church basement, for us to be meeting the fence-line communities.”

IPS UN Bureau Report