Category: World

  Our democracies are under threat in today’s world of international conflicts and growing technological disruption. Authoritarian regimes seek to undermine our trust in democratic institutions, free and fair elections and the values on which the European Union is founded. To counter this threat, the European Commission has presented the ‘European Democracy Shield’ that provides concrete […]

SECRETARY RUBIO:  All right.  QUESTION:  Good evening.  SECRETARY RUBIO:  Hey, guys, how we doing? QUESTION:  Good.  Thanks for welcoming us.  MR YERMAK:  Hello. SECRETARY RUBIO:  Thank you for coming.  So let me – at the outset let me say we’re going to come back here in a few minutes, in maybe an hour or two […]

A federal district court in Nevada sentenced Eduardo “Eddie” Lopez of Las Vegas to 40 months in custody and $550,000 in criminal fines. In addition, Lopez must pay $2,496,101 in criminal restitution to the defrauded purchaser of his home healthcare company. Lopez was also ordered to forfeit $10,459,000 from the fraudulent sale of his home […]

Climate disinformation: Commitment to promote information integrity and counter false narratives. The final decision emphasises solidarity and investment, setting ambitious financial targets while leaving energy transition for later discussion. The burning of fossil fuels emits greenhouse gases that are by far the largest contributors to global warming, making this omission a point of concern for […]

t was originally reported that 215 pupils had been kidnapped from St.  Mary’s School in Papiri, Niger state, early on Friday morning – but the figure was revised upwards to 303 students and 12 teachers, according to The Christian Association of Nigeria. The association’s chair who reportedly visited the school on Friday said that more […]

Chair,  I take the floor on behalf of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States to respond to misleading claims about Australia’s acquisition of a conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarine capability through the AUKUS partnership. Once again, we are compelled to invoke our Right of Reply to address remarks that purposefully mischaracterise the nature of our […]

  Public pensions alone may not always be sufficient to maintain adequate living standards. To help people secure a more reasonable income in retirement, the European Commission has put forward a set of measures to improve access to stronger and more effective supplementary pensions. These would complement rather than replace public pensions in EU countries. […]

A curated snapshot of Africa’s latest developments across Business, Technology, Geopolitics, Security, and Human Rights, reflecting real-time updates from multiple sources. Business Africa’s economic outlook remains resilient despite global uncertainty. The African Development Bank projects average GDP growth of 4.2% in 2025 and 4.3% in 2026, buoyed by private consumption and reforms afdb.org. At the […]

China has approved the world’s first drug aimed at a functional cure of hepatitis B — a disease that affects more than 250 million people worldwide. The new therapy, Pegbing, developed by Amoytop Biotech in Xiamen, marks a breakthrough after decades of treatments that could control the virus but rarely silence it. A breakthrough in […]

A federal judge has issued a sweeping injunction preventing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from sharing taxpayer home addresses with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), striking a major blow to the Trump administration’s mass deportation strategy. The Ruling U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the IRS’s agreement to provide ICE with taxpayer address […]