Dublin — 6 December 2025 — Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion Michael Moynihan has congratulated the 812 Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) graduating from the SNA National Training Programme at University College Dublin for the 2024/2025 academic year, marking another milestone in Ireland’s expanding investment in inclusive education. The fully funded programme — […]
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FAO aims to support more than 100 million people in 54 countries by the end of 2026, with a funding goal of $2.5 billion. The agency is pushing for a more targeted and responsive approach, prioritising what matters most, sequencing interventions effectively, and centring efforts on the practical solutions farmers are calling for, in line […]
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Between 25 November and 1 December, four Palestinians, including one child, were killed by Israeli forces, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank so far this year to 227. Nearly half of all fatalities in 2025 were recorded in the Jenin and Nablus governorates. Large-scale operations in Jenin and Tubas governorates […]
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Fast‑moving wildfires have torn through tens of thousands of acres of bushland across New South Wales, triggering widespread evacuation orders as emergency crews battle dangerous conditions in Australia’s most populous state. Authorities issued urgent warnings for communities in multiple regions as hot, dry winds and soaring temperatures intensified fire behaviour, pushing several blazes toward residential […]
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Morocco is accelerating its shift toward large‑scale desalination, with the government announcing plans to source 60% of the nation’s drinking water from desalinated seawater by 2030. The move marks one of the most ambitious water‑security strategies in Africa as the country confronts nearly a decade of severe and persistent drought. Morocco’s reservoirs have fallen to […]
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Iberdrola has announced a landmark $15 billion investment in the UK’s electricity grid, marking the largest grid‑infrastructure commitment in the company’s global portfolio and a major boost to the country’s electrification and energy‑security ambitions ESG News. The investment — approved by UK energy regulator Ofgem — will be delivered through Iberdrola’s UK subsidiary ScottishPower, which […]
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Air travel across India remained severely disrupted for a fourth consecutive day, with IndiGo — the country’s largest airline — cancelling more than 1,000 flights on Friday, leaving tens of thousands of passengers stranded nationwide The Indian Express Firstpost. Major airports including Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and Chennai reported widespread cancellations, long queues, missing […]
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According to the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, 107,000 people have fled their homes in recent weeks, pushing total displacement in just the past four months to 330,000. “They barely had time to recover when they again had to leave, due to attacks or fear of attacks,” said Paola Emerson, OCHA Head of Office in […]
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OHCHR is calling for more action to end the violence and achieve justice. “While the interim authorities have taken encouraging steps towards addressing past violations, these steps are only the beginning of what needs to be done,” spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheethan told journalists in Geneva. Summary executions and arbitrary killing Since last December, Syria’s interim authorities have established national commissions for transitional justice and missing persons, among other measures. A draft law on transitional justice has […]
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Dublin — 5 December 2025 — Ireland is set for the largest investment in its tertiary education and research system in the history of the State, following the publication of a €4.55 billion Tertiary Sector Capital Investment Plan 2026–2030 by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science James Lawless and Minister of […]
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