Category: World

However, it has been under duress for some time and going forward faces multiple threats which not only gravely endanger its future health but the future of humanity itself.  Some 550 experts from 86 countries have spent almost five years compiling a 1600-page assessment detailing the challenges the ocean faces. This scientific guide delivers the […]

Simon Stiell addressed the opening of the UN June Climate Meetings in Bonn, Germany – an important step ahead of the COP31 climate conference in Antalya, Turkiye this November.  “Tackling the global climate crisis is the hardest, but most important thing humanity has ever tried to do together,” he said.  “It is worth doing, because we have no choice. Every economy and population depends on it.”  Key meetings  The Bonn meetings take place annually in […]

Damien Mama, interim Humanitarian Coordinator in the DRC, arrived in the provincial capital Bunia on Sunday, where he will assess response efforts and strengthen coordination in support of the Government-led campaign to end the latest deadly epidemic.   Rising caseload  The fast-moving outbreak – which has also spread to neighbouring Uganda – is caused by the rare Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus which has no approved treatment or vaccines, though […]

A Passaic County man was charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS). Mohamed Sagha, 22, of Wayne, New Jersey was charged by complaint with one count of attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS. He made his […]

Georgette Gagnon, UN Deputy Special Representative currently leading the UN mission, UNAMA, reflected on recent visits across the country and said communities repeatedly described mounting hardship. Ms. Gagnon noted that the country’s de facto authorities have consolidated territorial and administrative control and currently face “no meaningful armed or political challenge,” but warned that this apparent stability […]

And thank you to the briefers who have outlined the devastation caused by Russia’s latest attacks, attacks which Russia threatened in this very chamber. In the assault on 1 and 2 June, Russia launched 656 drones and 73 missiles across Ukraine, including a record total of 41 ballistic and hypersonic missiles. These are not isolated […]

A federal jury in the District of Colorado convicted four individuals today of conspiracy to defraud the United States for their operation of an abusive trust tax evasion scheme that caused approximately $40 million in losses to the United States. “The defendants orchestrated an abusive trust tax scheme designed to help clients evade their tax […]

At least 19 people were killed, along with extensive damage to hospitals, homes and classrooms. The 7.8 magnitude quake struck at 7:37am local time (7:37pm Sunday in New York), about 32 kilometres (20 miles) offshore west of Maasim in Sarangani province, according to the UN relief coordination office, OCHA. Mindanao, the Philippines’ second-largest and second-most […]

Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom, the United States, the African Union (AU), the European Union (EU), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the League of Arab States (LAS), and the United Nations (UN) reaffirm their shared and unwavering commitment to the people of Sudan and to a peaceful, democratic, and stable […]

Today, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division launched a compliance review into four California public school districts: Graves Elementary School District, San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), Santa Rita Union School District, and Soledad Unified School District (collectively, the California School Districts) regarding instruction on sexual orientation and gender ideology (SOGI) in grades pre-K-12. “This […]