2025 International Humanitarian Law report: The EU continues efforts to promote the respect of international humanitarian law across the globe

2025 was marked by all too many events that called into question the effective implementation of International humanitarian law (IHL). The need for humanitarian protection and assistance has never been greater. The current global challenges, with over 130 armed conflicts ongoing, demonstrate that the proper implementation of IHL, including to new forms of warfare and […]

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National Milestone and a Place to Call Home: Thousands Gather at Dublin’s Docklands to Become Irish Citizens

Inside the glass cylinder of the Convention Centre at Spencer Dock, the Liffey reflected a rare late-summer sunlight yesterday as thousands gathered for a milestone moment. On September 17, 2026, the venue served not merely as a conference center, but as a threshold between past origins and a shared future. For the thousands who filled […]

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Office of Public Affairs | DOJ Sues Georgia Lab Executives for Defrauding Medicare by Targeting Faith-Based Communities and Seniors

Today, the United States filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against laboratory executives Jay Johnson and Austin Whiles, alleging that they used their roles at Capstone Diagnostics, an Atlanta-based clinical laboratory, to orchestrate two testing schemes — one targeting faith-based communities and the other senior citizens — that caused Medicare to pay millions […]

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Commission inaugurates Europe’s largest industrial carbon capture and storage facility in the Netherlands

Today, the Yara Sluiskil plant, the largest commercial carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Europe started its operations in Sluikil, a village in the Zeeland province of the Netherlands. The CO2 will be transported by ship and permanently stored under the Norwegian North Sea at the Northern Lights facility, funded by the EU under the […]

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EU KIDS Act: helping children navigate a safer online world

Concerns are growing about the risks children and teenagers face when using online platforms, which are highly addictive and designed to grab their attention for as long as possible.  Protecting children online is a priority for the European Commission. This is why we have proposed a new KIDS Act to introduce a gradual uptake of […]

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EU sustainable aviation fuel supply exceeds 2025 ReFuelEU Aviation target

COLOGNE, September 17, 2026 — The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) today published the 2026 ReFuelEU Aviation Annual Technical Report, showing that the supply of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) in the European Union (EU) exceeded the first mandatory ReFuelEU Aviation target in 2025.  Aviation fuel suppliers reported supplying 39.3 million tonnes of aviation fuel at Union […]

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Protection Over Punishment: Home Office Amazing Overhauls Of Visa Rules to Shield Displaced Care Workers from Sponsor Revocations

LONDON — In a major policy victory for migrant healthcare professionals and a well thought out and excellent policy shift, the Home Office has formally updated its operational immigration guidance, confirming that international care workers and nursing staff will no longer face automatic visa cancellation solely because their employer’s sponsor licence has been revoked. The […]

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Office of Public Affairs | Two Defendants Employed at L.A.-Area Homeless Nonprofits Arrested on Federal Charges Alleging Misuse of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars

Law enforcement today arrested two defendants, out of three total, who have been charged in separate federal homelessness corruption and fraud cases, including a founder of a Culver City, California,-based nonprofit who allegedly misappropriated more than $7.5 million in taxpayer funds, and used this money for commercial real estate and to finance the construction of […]

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Office of Public Affairs | Maduro Regime Ally Alex Saab Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Scheme Involving Bribery and Public Contracts for Food and Medicine

Alex Nain Saab Moran, 54, of Caracas, Venezuela, and formerly of Baranquilla, Colombia, a former Minister of Industry in the regime of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to launder proceeds of a massive bribery and fraud scheme in Venezuela and the United States.The plea was heard by U.S. District Judge […]

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Office of Public Affairs | Illegal Alien from Guatemala Pleads Guilty to Fraudulently Seeking to Obtain Custody of an Unaccompanied Alien Child

Gladys Marina Caal Chen, 21, of Guatemala, pleaded guilty today to submitting a sponsorship application with false statements to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to gain custody of an unaccompanied alien child (UAC). According to court documents, Caal Chen falsely stated in a UAC sponsorship application under the […]

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