More than 40,000 jobs have been created or safeguarded across Wales during the current Senedd term, following over £600 million in direct investment by the Welsh Government, it was confirmed today. As part of this ongoing strategy to build a stronger, fairer, and greener economy, Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning, Rebecca Evans, has […]
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June 2025 – Department of the Taoiseach Taoiseach Micheál Martin reaffirmed Ireland’s commitment to global health equity at the Global Summit for Health and Prosperity through Immunisation, announcing a €21.6 million pledge to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Addressing the summit, the Taoiseach highlighted the transformative role vaccines play in improving global health outcomes. Citing World […]
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Abuja, Nigeria – June 25, 2025 — Nigeria and Brazil have signed a $1 billion bilateral agreement aimed at transforming Nigeria’s agricultural sector, enhancing food security, and fostering cooperation in energy and defence, according to Nigerian Vice President Kashim Shettima. Under the agreement, both countries will deploy over $1 billion to establish mechanised farming infrastructure, […]
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Brussels | June, 2025 – Canada and the European Union signed a new security and defense agreement on Monday, aimed at deepening transatlantic cooperation amid growing global instability and evolving geopolitical alliances. The agreement enables Canadian companies to participate in EU-funded defense procurement programs, granting them access to the EU’s €150 billion joint defense fund—marking […]
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TUCSON, Ariz. | June 25, 2025 –Sherwayne Benjamin Bellinfantie, also known as “Ice Man,” has been extradited from Jamaica to the United States to face federal charges in connection with a romance and lottery fraud scheme that defrauded an 85-year-old Arizona resident of over $400,000. Bellinfantie was indicted by a federal grand jury in March […]
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“From that day on, our home became a travel bag and our path became that of displacement … My childhood was filled with fear and anxiety and people I was deprived of,” she said, speaking via videoconference from Syria. Sila, now 17, described her experiences during the Syrian Civil War to a meeting of […]
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Between 2015 and 2024, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre documented over 6,400 cases of human rights defenders facing attacks for speaking out against business-related harms—an average of nearly two incidents per day over the past decade. The findings, published in the Centre’s latest review titled Defending Rights for a Just Economy, highlight a […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to host the presidents of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda in the coming weeks to formalize a peace agreement aimed at ending decades of conflict in eastern DRC, according to senior Africa adviser Massad Boulos. Speaking at the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Luanda, Angola, on Tuesday, […]
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The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has strongly condemned the repeated use of lethal force by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) against Palestinians attempting to access food aid in Gaza, describing the killings as “senseless” and “unlawful.” In a statement released Wednesday, the OHCHR highlighted several recent incidents in which […]
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SUDAN – UN Warns of High Genocide Risk The United Nations warns that the risk of genocide in Sudan remains “very high” amid continued ethnically motivated violence by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). UN official Virginia Gamba cited targeted attacks on ethnic Zaghawa, Masalit, and Fur communities, especially in Darfur and Kordofan. The war between […]
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