While WFP has been able to hold hunger at bay across northern Nigeria in the first half of 2025, funding shortfalls are jeopardising such efforts, with lifesaving programmes set to grind to a halt by the end of July. Without immediate funding, millions of vulnerable people will be left without food assistance as WFP’s […]
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A Russian passenger aircraft operated by Angara Airlines has crashed in the Amur region of the country’s Far East, killing all 49 people on board. The Antonov An-24, a Soviet-era twin-engine turboprop, disappeared from radar on July 24 while attempting a second landing approach near Tynda, a remote town close to the Chinese border. The […]
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The Department of Transport has been awarded €24.33 billion under the National Development Plan (NDP) Review 2025, marking a major investment in Ireland’s transport infrastructure over the next five years. The funding was welcomed by Minister for Transport Darragh O’Brien, Minister of State Seán Canney, and Minister of State Jerry Buttimer, who emphasized its transformative […]
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have signed a landmark UK–India trade agreement, expected to deliver £6 billion in investment and create 2,200 new jobs across the United Kingdom. The deal, finalized during Modi’s official visit to the UK, is hailed as the largest of its kind in terms of […]
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The report, to be released later this month, reveals how between 2020 and 2024, the world experienced a dramatic increase in food prices driven by a combination of COVID-19 inflation, the war in Ukraine restricting movements on food and commodities and increasing climate shocks. “The episodes described in this publication bring up what we […]
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Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail) has awarded a consultancy contract to Jacobs, a global engineering firm, to support a transformative rail infrastructure programme aimed at modernizing the Galway–Portarlington corridor, a key regional and intercity route with onward connections to Dublin. Under a four-year framework agreement, with an option to extend for an additional four years, Jacobs […]
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AstraZeneca has announced a landmark $50 billion investment in its U.S. operations by 2030, marking the company’s largest-ever commitment to American manufacturing and research. The initiative is headlined by a multi-billion-dollar drug substance facility in Virginia, which will serve as the cornerstone of the expansion and focus on producing treatments for weight management and metabolic […]
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Mathare, one of the country’s largest slums, houses upwards of 500,000 people in five square kilometres, cramming them together and storing the human waste they produce in uncovered rivulets. But, when he recounted the visit later to UN News, this was not the image that stuck with him the most. Without formal sewage systems, […]
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It has come to the attention of the European Commission’s Department for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) that a fraudulent website, under the domain ‘glife.help,’ is misusing the European Union’s Humanitarian Aid name and logo. This website falsely claims to receive our funding and support and offers supposed ‘safe passage’ to […]
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On 22 July 2025, Türkiye announced the successful acquisition of €2.4 billion ($2.8 billion) in green financing to fund the Kars-Iğdır-Aralık-Dilucu Railway Project, a key infrastructure initiative aimed at establishing a direct rail link to Nakhchivan, an autonomous exclave of Azerbaijan. 🌱 International Collaboration and Green Credentials The financing package was arranged by a consortium […]
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