Author: News Desk

  The European Commission has announced that a new age verification app designed to protect children online is ready for deployment. In a recent statement, President of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen, confirmed that the technology is ready and will soon be available for citizens to use. The app will allow users to prove […]

Marathon discussions hosted by Pakistan ended in stalemate this weekend in the country’s capital, Islamabad.   While no agreement was reached, “the discussions themselves underscored the seriousness of their engagement and constituted a positive and meaningful step toward renewed dialogue,” UN Spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said in a statement.  “Given the deeply rooted differences, an agreement cannot be reached overnight, and the Secretary-General calls on the talks to […]

Yesterday, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Connecticut, Governor Lamont, Attorney General Tong, the City of New Haven, and Mayor Elicker to challenge the State’s and City’s sanctuary policies that interfere with the federal government’s enforcement of immigration laws. The complaint targets Connecticut’s so-called “Trust Act,” as well as other state and local sanctuary […]

The economic shockwaves of the Middle East conflict are reaching far beyond the region, from import-reliant Caribbean nations to Island States in the Pacific, where spiking oil prices are having a knock-on effect on the cost of food and other essentials, hitting low-income families particularly hard. According to UN analysis, the military escalation could push more than […]

The Justice Department today announced the sentencings of two U.S. nationals, Kejia Wang, 42, and Zhenxing Wang, 39, for their roles in facilitating North Korean remote information technology (IT) workers posing as U.S. residents to obtain work at more than 100 U.S. companies. The multi-year scheme used the stolen identities of at least 80 U.S. […]

Countries reportedly pledged over $1 billion at the third International Conference for Sudan co-hosted by Germany, the African Union (AU), the European Union (EU), France, and the United Kingdom.  Senior UN officials delivered remarks, including humanitarian affairs chief Tom Fletcher who said that “Sudan is an atrocities laboratory,” citing sieges of cities such as El Fasher in Darfur, the denial of food, use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, and the targeting of schools and hospitals.  Civilians and aid workers […]

Indictments were unsealed today in the Northern District of Georgia and the Western District of Texas charging a Georgia man and a resident of the United Kingdom and Nigeria with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, money laundering, aggravated identity theft and other crimes arising out of a scheme to defraud the IRS using […]

Aged 17 and coaching archers three times her age on her home Caribbean island of Tobago, Ms. Lewis transfers the confidence and skills she gained from the sport into advocacy and diplomacy, spaces where youth, especially girls, must often fight to have their voices heard. “The biggest challenge has to be my age,” she said, […]

A federal jury in the District of Minnesota convicted a Minnesota man today of possessing a machine gun created by attaching an illegal machine gun conversion device to a semi-automatic firearm. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Amiir Mawlid Ali, 19, of Minneapolis, was arrested after officers found a machine gun in […]

The findings come in the first-ever detailed analysis of immunisation targets in Africa, published on Wednesday by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.  It also documents progress and challenges in expanding immunisation coverage against a broad range of vaccine-preventable diseases, as well as ongoing efforts to achieve targets under a global strategy known as the 2030 […]