Category: World

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt M. Campbell and Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar co-chaired the sixth round of the U.S.-Nigeria Binational Commission (BNC) in Abuja on April 29-30, 2024.  Established in 2010, the BNC is the premier platform of official engagement between the Governments of the United States and Nigeria to expand cooperation and advance shared goals and democratic values.  This year’s BNC built on the strong foundation agreed during the January 23, 2024, meeting between […]

At Embedded Worldy, BlackBerry Limited announced a collaboration with AMD designed to develop the next-generation robotic systems by enabling new levels of low latency and jitter and repeatable determinism. Together, the companies will address the critical need for ‘hard’ real-time capabilities in robotics-focused hardware with an affordable and powerful platform that delivers enhanced performance, reliability […]

Professor Maria Chiara Carrozza believes people in the 21st century will find life more liveable in the growing company of their machine equivalents: robots. Carrozza, president of Italy’s National Research Council, says advanced robots promise across-the-board improvements in the quality of life in Europe and beyond.  In places ranging from farms to factories, she foresees […]

“There is an extraordinary deep anxiety prevailing right now in Gaza because the question everybody asks is whether, yes or no, there would be a military offensive,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini told journalists in Geneva. Following several reports by the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, of “intensive strikes on Rafah” that caused dozens of fatalities, Mr. […]

Humza Yousaf’s resignation as first minister of Scotland was, in the end, expected, after a chain of events made his position untenable. It was trailed from early in the morning that he would be resigning, so when he finally addressed the media at lunchtime, there was no sense of shock in the room. The departure […]

Mr. Guterres was saddened by the loss of life and damage caused by flash flooding in the capital, Nairobi, and other parts of the country, his spokesperson said on Monday. The Secretary-General extended his condolences and solidarity to the families of the victims and to the people and Government of Kenya. On Monday, rescue teams […]

Office of the Spokesperson The below is attributable to Spokesperson Matthew Miller:   Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud.  Secretary Blinken underscored the need to avoid further escalation in the region.  The Secretary discussed ongoing efforts to reach an immediate ceasefire in Gaza that would […]

Afghanistan’s Taliban face criticism over their human rights record at a UN meeting on Monday, with Washington accusing them of systematically depriving women and girls of their human rights. However, in an awkward first for the UN Human Rights Council, the concerned country’s current rulers will not be present because they are not recognized by […]

Across Portugal, a number of photography exhibitions are currently on display that commemorate the ousting of the Estado Novo, the dictatorial, authoritarian and corporatist political regime that had ruled the country since 1933. The work of photographer Alfredo Cunha features prominently in many – he authored a book compiling the most emblematic images of this […]

STATEMENT Amy Pope | Director General, International Organization for Migration Geneva/Paris,15 April – A year ago, war came to Khadim, a mother of seven children in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, and she fled 200 kilometers southeast to Medani. And then war came to Khadim in a literal sense: a firefight erupted in Medani and […]