Rabat, April 2025 — Morocco’s national social security agency has confirmed it suffered a major cyberattack this week, resulting in the theft and online publication of sensitive personal data. The breach, described as one of the most significant in the country’s history, targeted the Caisse Nationale de Sécurité Sociale (CNSS), which manages pensions, health insurance, […]
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Juba, April 12, 2025 — The Government of South Sudan has denied a request by the European Union’s Special Representative to the Horn of Africa, Dr. Annette Weber, to visit First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar, who remains under house arrest in the capital, Juba. Dr. Weber’s mission to South Sudan on April 10, conducted […]
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The Hague, April 11, 2025 — Sudan has petitioned the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to impose emergency measures against the United Arab Emirates (UAE), accusing it of aiding genocide in Darfur by supporting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The case, filed under the Genocide Convention, marks the latest international effort to address atrocities […]
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The London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) has allocated £250 million—representing 3% of its £8 billion portfolio—to a new climate-focused investment vehicle, in a major move to advance its net zero goals. The capital will be managed by Local Pensions Partnership Investments (LPPI) through its newly launched Environmental Opportunities Fund, a private markets strategy targeting sustainable […]
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Sydney, Australia — Qantas and Airbus have jointly committed AUD$15 million to Climate Tech Partners (CTP), a venture capital fund focused on accelerating climate innovation—specifically in the development and commercialisation of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in Australia. The new investment, drawn from the Qantas-Airbus SAF Partnership Fund established in 2022, is aimed at advancing early-stage […]
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Open finance in India has grown rapidly in the last year. As of December 2024, 120 million accounts had been linked through Account Aggregators (AAs) – India’s version of open finance – up from 39 million in December 2023. According to Sahamati’s annual report, more than 570 regulated financial entities were a part of the […]
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Kurashiki, Japan — In a bold move toward carbon-neutral manufacturing, JFE Steel Corporation has unveiled a ¥329.4 billion (USD $2.2 billion) project to construct an advanced electric arc furnace (EAF) at its West Japan Works facility in Kurashiki. The initiative, partially backed by a Japanese government grant of up to ¥104.5 billion (USD $690 million), […]
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WASHINGTON—Today, the Justice Department announced that it has acted to end the state of Illinois’ unlawful minority-only scholarship program. After the Justice Department threatened to file suit, the state and six universities suspended the program. On March 31, 2025, the Justice Department found that an Illinois scholarship program unconstitutionally discriminated on the basis of race […]
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In a landmark decision underscoring judicial limits on executive immigration powers, the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court’s directive that federal authorities must return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident, who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March 2025. Abrego Garcia, who had been living legally in the U.S. for over […]
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The United States is expediting production of the B61-13 nuclear gravity bomb—an advanced weapon with a yield of up to 360 kilotons, approximately 24 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Developed at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the B61-13 is designed as part of the U.S. nuclear […]
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