Author: News Desk

The warning comes in the latest edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report issued on Tuesday by five United Nations agencies.  Estimates show that 7.8 per cent of the global population, or roughly 645 million people, faced hunger in 2025.   This is down from 8.1 per cent in 2024 and 8.6 per cent in 2022, or nearly 14 million fewer people than in 2024 and 43 million fewer compared to 2022.  Uneven recovery  The […]

The Justice Department announced that the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) has just released $25 million in new grant Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) to support law enforcement. Today’s NOFOs are in addition to the nearly $700 million in NOFOs the COPS Office released last month in June. The recently released NOFOs include […]

Key points Fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded.  No approved vaccine or treatment exists.  Violent instability hampering disease surveillance and care.  Early detection remains critical to saving lives. “The outbreak has been reported in five provinces, but the province of Ituri remains the epicentre of the outbreak, accounting for more than 90 per cent of cases […]

“I saw the building collapse, floor by floor. You could hear people screaming and calling for help,” said Roberto Rodríguez, 24, who survived two catastrophic earthquakes of magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 that struck the central-northern region of Venezuela on 24 June. Having just returned home, he had yet to reach his apartment. “Bricks and pieces […]

A New Mexico woman pleaded guilty today to working with a non-emergency medical transport (NEMT) company to submit millions of dollars in false and fraudulent claims to New Mexico Medicaid for ineligible and non-existent trips to medical appointments.  According to court documents, Dorothea Irving, 47, of Farmington, New Mexico, worked as a driver between 2020 […]

“We are indeed concerned by a resurgence of hostilities and renewed escalation across much of the region,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Monday in New York, stressing that “immediate de-escalation is essential.”  He noted that “as in any conflict, the protection of civilians and civilian objects is critical,” and the vital infrastructure they rely on to survive […]

The Department of Justice announced today that it filed denaturalization actions in various U.S. district courts against 10 individuals accused of serious offenses—including sexual abuse of a child, health care and wire fraud, immigration fraud, and conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine. The complaints were filed over the last 30 days.  Under […]

“Decades of rapidly expanding space activity have shown that each launch leaves an environmental footprint, and it can take a long time to understand the impact fully. This is why it is so crucial to consider the sustainability of these programmes early on,” said Jason Jabbour, Senior Officer at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Why […]

Seafood Supply Co., a Dallas seafood wholesaler, was sentenced today to pay a $250,000 fine for violating two counts of the Lacey Act.  According to court documents, Seafood Supply falsified the country of origin of salmon sold from January 2020 to February 2022. The company would designate Chilean salmon as salmon from Scotland or other […]

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Matthias Schmale, said on Sunday that the large-scale overnight attack also damaged homes, shops and a metro station.  It came a day after a deadly strike on the Odesa region that killed and wounded several people, including children, at an amusement park. Devastating toll “The increasing toll of these […]