Category: World

Shortly after 8am, two high-speed trains set off from Madrid’s Atocha station bound for Seville Santa Justa, but neither reached their destination. A failure in the LZB system – an automatic safety, signalling and protection system that monitors trains’ movement and activates automatic emergency braking – triggered a chain of events that led to a […]

UNITED NATIONS, New York — United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has reaffirmed the organization’s commitment to dismantling systemic racism, advancing gender parity, and fostering structural inclusion within its global workforce and operational frameworks. In an address detailing internal governance and human resources reforms, Guterres emphasized that the world body must maintain high standards of institutional […]

DUBAI — A commercial vessel caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, according to an alert issued by the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO). The incident occurred nine nautical miles (17 kilometers) north of Khasab, Oman, within the strategically critical waterway that handles roughly twenty percent of global petroleum transit. Shortly after […]

MADRID — Spain has entered three days of official national mourning following a high-speed train collision in the central province of Toledo that has left at least 68 people dead and more than 100 injured. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez declared the mourning period, which runs through October 31, calling the disaster “an intolerable tragedy” and […]

Imagine coming across a TikTok post calling you to protest for better public schools. You scan a QR code to get more information, and find yourself in a private chat where the instructions are not about education or political organising, but about looting. This was the picture that emerged in Barcelona on October 24. Around […]

NEW YORK — Three brothers—including two former high-profile luxury real estate brokers—were each sentenced on Tuesday to 30 years in federal prison for operating a decades-long sex trafficking and sexual abuse scheme that targeted dozens of women and minors. U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni handed down the sentences in a Manhattan federal courtroom following emotional […]

A former civilian U.S. Army official pleaded guilty today to participating in a bribery and major fraud scheme that corrupted the competitive process for a U.S. Army technology innovation lab in the Pacific.   According to a plea agreement and information filed in the U.S. District Court in Honolulu, Hawaii, from January 2021 to October […]

How can we encourage women to pursue scientific careers? In recent years, a number of mentoring or awareness campaigns have been put in place to encourage French high school students to study maths, physics or engineering sciences, while they remain underrepresented in these fields. One of the last large-scale initiatives is the Filles et Maths […]

A federal jury convicted Eric Tabaro Nshimiye, also known as Eric Tabaro Nshimiyimana, 54, yesterday on four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice related to his concealment of material information concerning his involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Specifically, the jury convicted Nshimiye of lying to a federal jury during the 2019 trial […]

Thank you, Mr Chair. The United Kingdom remains unwavering in its support for Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders, and for a just and lasting peace. We also fully support Allies’ efforts to challenge destabilising activity on NATO territory: the latest example being Romania’s exposure this week of a Russian […]