Category: World

As NATO counts down to its annual summit in Turkey in July, the alliance is facing perhaps the biggest challenge in its history – what a potential future without the United States, or US security guarantees, would look like. In recent weeks, the Trump administration has taken a series of steps widely interpreted in European […]

FCDO consular support Whenever possible we will seek your permission before taking any action on your behalf. We can: listen to you and help you look at your options help you to contact friends and family members if you want to visit you in hospital or prison in line with our usual procedures raise any […]

If you have ever seen the Milky Way in the night sky, you probably noticed that it looks cloudy. That is because towards the centre of our galaxy, and of most galaxies, there are vast amounts of dust that make it hard to see what is going on. That means a big swathe of the […]

Thank you so much, and welcome everyone, to Woolwich Works, and to the Global Partnerships Conference this morning!  It is my absolute honour and privilege to welcome all of you, and the very broad community of friends and partners who are represented here today. To welcome those of you for whom this might not be your first international development conference.  Who have been […]

The world needs fertiliser to be moving in weeks not months, damage has begun to be priced in to the agriculture market for the next year as harvests suffer and food prices rise Global conference brings governments, investors, international organisations, technology leaders and civil society together to agree new ways of working on shared global challenges, including directly combating the […]

The owner of two Southern California non-emergency ambulatory companies pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and money laundering. According to court documents and statements made in court, Mehrdad Tabrizi was the sole owner of Life Fleet Inc. and Resonante Group, two medical businesses based in Orange County. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tabrizi used these two […]

Over the past three days, frontline attacks killed at least 11 civilians and injured nearly 200 others, including five children, as reported by Ukrainian authorities. The cities of Dnipro and Odesa were among the most heavily affected.  At the same time, in the regions of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro, attacks damaged residential buildings, civilian vehicles, […]

A New York man was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for conspiring to launder nearly $1.5 million in illicit health care fraud proceeds through multiple domestic and global banks on behalf of a Transnational Criminal Organization (Organization). According to court documents, Elnar Zarbailov, 42, of Staten Island, New York, and dual citizen of […]

Health ministers and diplomats are in Geneva for the 79th World Health Assembly – a week of negotiations on key topics such as pandemic preparedness, health financing and how to manage public health across borders to save the most lives. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus used the opening session to argue that recent crises had […]

Note: See the indictment here. Venezuela’s former Minister of Industry and National Production made his initial appearance in court today pursuant to an indictment unsealed in the Southern District of Florida charging him for his alleged role in a sprawling international money laundering conspiracy involving the corruption and exploitation of a Venezuelan public welfare program intended […]