Category: World

DUBLIN — High above the cobblestones of Dublin Castle, where diplomats and policy architects gather in quiet intensity, a fundamental question hangs in the air: How does European policy truly touch the daily lives of 450 million citizens? As Ireland steers the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union through the second half […]

Why it matters Amid reports of a new United States-led peace plan for the war-torn enclave and a recent spike in Israeli airstrikes on alleged Hamas targets in Gaza, UNICEF stressed that families are now confined to approximately one third of the Strip, sheltering among destroyed buildings, rubble and uncleared waste.  “A ceasefire that leaves […]

The ability to cross oceans has long been a marker of human endeavour, but when did the seas change from being barriers to movement into the maritime highways we know today? For many years the answer was thought to lie in the Neolithic period – the time when humans made the profound transition from hunting […]

The warning came a day after a deadly reported strike in the village of Ghara al Zawiya in North Darfur state caused dozens of casualties, according to information shared by the UN human rights office, OHCHR. International media reported that at least 35 people were killed and dozens more injured in a drone strike by […]

Ceuta, a small Spanish enclave on the Moroccan mainland, was unprepared for the arrival of more than 70,000 undocumented migrants on July 30. They arrived mostly by sea, from Morocco via the Tarajal breakwaters and its shoreline. The minuscule city of just seven square miles had few provisions for food, shelter or support for the […]

The unprecedented border crossing into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta has sparked a wave of political reactions across Europe. Far-right parties described the crossings as “an invasion” and a majority of European governments demanded a reaction from European Union officials. In an urgent meeting of the bloc’s interior ministers on August 4, Magnus Brunner, the European […]

The political and media coverage of the recent car ramming attack at Berlin Pride seems to focus exclusively on the Islamist threat in the midst of European societies. That the attack was directed specifically at queer visibility and the fact that the incident left one Polish woman dead is often sidelined. If, in 2025, Friedrich […]

Wetlands are surprisingly effective at locking away carbon. Marshes, floodplains and peatlands together cover less than a tenth of the Earth’s surface, yet peatlands alone hold around a third of all the carbon stored in soil worldwide. In waterlogged wetland soils, dead plant material decomposes very slowly, allowing large amounts of carbon to accumulate over […]

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband steps up UK action against Russia, with new sanctions targeting the Kremlin’s military machine, oil and gas revenues and ageing shadow fleet.   Government continues to support Ukraine after the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary welcomed President Zelenskyy to the UK last week.  Russian banks, shadow fleet ships and shady businesses have been slapped with UK sanctions for their role in Russia’s barbaric war […]

Note: Copies of the indictments filed in the District of Columbia can be obtained by clicking on Julio César Montero Pinzón, Carlos Andrés Rivera Varela, Hugo Gonzalo Mendoza Gaytán, Ricardo Ruiz Velasco, and Julio Alberto Castillo Rodríguez. A copy of the superseding indictment filed in the Eastern District of New York can be found here. Reward posters of the eight CJNG […]