Category: World

At the 2025 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, Warren Buffett expressed strong opposition to the U.S. administration’s use of tariffs, describing trade as a “weapon” as a “big mistake” . He emphasized that trade should be a mutually beneficial exchange, not a tool for economic confrontation. Buffett’s comments come amid ongoing trade tensions, including significant tariffs […]

Ireland’s Minister for Education, Helen McEntee, has announced the launch of three new free upskilling programmes for post-primary teachers in Computer Science, French, and Politics & Society, aimed at bolstering teacher supply in critical subject areas. The new two-year courses, beginning in September 2025, will be offered by Technological University Dublin (Computer Science), Trinity College […]

In a notable move, President Donald Trump’s 2025 budget proposal includes a $3.2 billion contribution over three years to the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), which provides concessional loans and grants to the world’s poorest countries. This allocation, though lower than former President Joe Biden’s $4 billion pledge, has been welcomed by international development […]

Professor Majorie van Duursen, a Dutch environmental health expert and toxicologist, has her sights set on improving women’s health. Her principal target? Substances known as endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) found everywhere around us, from the air we breathe and the clothes we wear to the products we put on our skin. Van Duursen, head of the […]

Belarus has released Youras Ziankovich, a U.S. citizen and lawyer with dual Belarusian-American nationality, who had been imprisoned for over three years on charges widely condemned as politically motivated. Ziankovich was arrested in Russia in April 2021 and later transferred to Belarus, where he was sentenced to 13.5 years in prison on allegations of plotting […]

The 2025 World Press Freedom Index, released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), paints a grim picture of global journalism. For the first time in the index’s history, half of the world’s countries are classified as having a “poor” environment for press freedom. Only 45 nations—less than a quarter of those assessed—received “satisfactory” or “good” ratings. […]

Ruth Nivar, a 57-year-old former employee of the D.C. Department of Human Services (DHS), has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for extorting money from low-income, non-English-speaking residents seeking public assistance. The scheme, which began in 2018 and continued through May 2023, involved Nivar exploiting her position to demand payments from applicants for […]

Serbian authorities have arrested two foreign nationals—Cui Guanghai, 43, from China, and John Miller, 63, from the United Kingdom—at the request of the United States. They are accused of orchestrating a conspiracy to harass and intimidate a Los Angeles resident who had publicly criticized Chinese President Xi Jinping. According to a criminal complaint unsealed by […]

On the morning of Monday 28 April, nothing was out of the ordinary in peninsular Spain’s electricity system. Demand was at normal levels for the time of year, and was being easily met by the total generation capacity available. The day before, the Spanish National Grid Network (REE, Red Eléctrica Española, commercially known as Redeia) […]

Kellie Lee Crawford, 57, was sentenced to 180 months in federal prison for the voluntary manslaughter of her 70-year-old neighbor, Richard Strade, in Grove, Oklahoma. U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell imposed the sentence, which will be followed by three years of supervised release. In September 2021, Crawford, under the influence of methamphetamine, struck Strade […]