The Arctic is changing fast. Climate change, geopolitical tensions, strategic competition, military activity and new shipping routes are reshaping the Arctic’s security and economic landscape. The Commission has put forward a new strategy for the Arctic – a new framework of cooperation with like-minded northern neighbours that places people, security, climate and prosperity at its core. […]
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The European Union is carrying out the 2026 edition of its crisis management exercise – EU integrated resolve (EU IR26) from 19 October to 20 November 2026. In line with the preparedness Union strategy, the EU IR26 aims to strengthen the EU’s capacity to respond to a complex crisis of a hybrid nature with crisis […]
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Dustin Stover Bowles, 42, of West Virginia, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for aggravated sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, between September 2006 and December 2006, Bowles sexually abused a minor while he babysat her at his home. The victim […]
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Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, 28, of Ontario, Canada, was sentenced today to 50 years in prison for offenses related to a 2020 attack on correctional officers at U.S. Penitentiary Allenwood. This sentence will run consecutive to the 40-year sentence he is currently serving for his role in plotting a mass-casualty terrorist attack in New York City […]
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The Justice Department today announced that Village Capital & Investment LLC, a servicer of home loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs, will pay over $500,000 to resolve allegations that it failed to properly apply Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) interest rate benefits to at least 41 servicemembers’ mortgages and retaliated against servicemembers who requested […]
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The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published Revision from October 2026 of the Easy Access Rules for Aircrew (EAR for Aircrew), incorporating the following regulatory material: EASA ED Decision 2025/022/R on flight crew licensing for gyroplanes and non-commercial operations of gyroplanes conducted under visual flight rules by day and by night; Commission Implementing […]
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An indictment was unsealed today in the District of Delaware charging Jamar Geeter, 39, of San Francisco, California, Kalvin Carter Jr., 44, of Waldorf, Maryland, and Jada Hasty, 29, of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor by force, fraud, and coercion, sex trafficking, and coercion and enticement of a minor. Geeter […]
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Ygor Fokin Saviolli, 35, a Brazilian national, was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for his role as a manager and supervisor in a money laundering organization that laundered more than $30 million in illicit proceeds, including the proceeds of drug trafficking. On September 24, five co-defendants received sentences ranging from 94 months in prison to 12 months […]
Continue ReadingOlivia from Spain was just 13 when she developed the Jelly Cleaner – a simple filtering device made from two plastic bottles and a pair of tights to trap microplastics and clean the ocean. Now a European Climate Pact Ambassador, Olivia has gone on to give numerous presentations on the Jelly Cleaner, climate change and the health of the oceans to schools, universities, and international organisations. She is fired up by […]
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Alexander Suvorov, 52, a Russian national, has been charged by a criminal complaint with three counts related to the unlawful exporting of micro-electronic components from the United States to Russia via a front company based in Hong Kong. “Those, like the defendant, as alleged, who seek to enrich themselves by evading economic sanctions on Russia, […]
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