Category: World

It recently emerged that tech billionaire Peter Thiel is running a secret society that brings together fellow CEOs and billionaires with political leaders. Members reportedly include figures like Nato supreme commander Alexus Grynkewich and son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner. Thiel, a German-American entrepreneur and activist, was a co-founder of PayPal and software […]

Serious hostilities between the US and Iran have resumed. On July 8, Donald Trump said that the ceasefire agreed by the two countries in June was “over”. Since then, he has ordered the US military to carry out intensive airstrikes on Iran and has reimposed an economic blockade of the country. The US president has […]

The July 9 wildfire in Los Gallardos – in Almería, eastern Andalusia – was a tragedy with a huge human and social impact. Beyond the provisional figures of dead, missing and injured and the specific circumstances – which are yet to be confirmed by an official investigation – the fire raises a broader question: are […]

Thank you, Chairs. The United Kingdom remains unequivocally committed to a just and lasting peace in Ukraine: one that upholds Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Our support for Ukraine is long-term, and we back every credible effort to bring this war to an end. Chairs, this Forum has heard that Europe is ‘militarising’, and that NATO poses a threat to the Russian […]

Nature has spent billions of years perfecting the art of building with living cells. A team of researchers is now learning from that process – and finding ways to speed it up. For Massimo Vassalli, professor of bioengineering at the University of Glasgow, the goal is to understand not only how living tissues form, but […]

Nine criminal aliens from Venezuela have pleaded guilty to human trafficking, alien smuggling, and money laundering charges related to a sex trafficking ring operated in several motels in Nashville, Tennessee.   According to court documents, the defendants orchestrated a human trafficking and smuggling scheme targeting vulnerable Venezuelan women, recruiting them to the U.S. with promises […]

For more than a year, six schools established by the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) have been inaccessible, and another six have been closed, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists in New York.  Ten schools in Area C of the West Bank were recently abandoned due to settler attacks and access restrictions, he added.  On Wednesday, Suzanna Tkalec, the UN’s deputy humanitarian […]

The fighting has broken an interim truce established under a Memorandum of Understanding signed by the two countries in June.  The deal sought to end hostilities that erupted in late February following US-Israeli strikes on Iran and counter attacks by Tehran across the Gulf region.  De-escalation, dialogue and diplomacy  Mr. Guterres urged all parties “to take immediate steps for de-escalation and return to the path of dialogue and diplomacy”, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists in New […]

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan issued a permanent injunction against Detroit area tax return preparer Ann Heibeck and Detroit area tax return preparation businesses J&A Tax Services LLC doing business as Equitax (Equitax) and J&A Tax and Accounting Services LLC doing business as Equitax Accounting and Tax Service (J&A 2). The […]

More than 57 million people worldwide are living with dementia, with nearly 10 million new cases diagnosed each year. Alzheimer’s disease accounts for an estimated 60 to 70 per cent of all dementia cases. Although there is no cure for the debilitating and irreversible brain condition, WHO said growing scientific evidence shows that many risk […]