Ireland and EIB Deepen Ties on Sustainable Transport, Eye MetroLink Financing

🚆 Strategic Dialogue on Low-Carbon Mobility On October 24, 2025, Minister for Transport Darragh O’Brien met with European Investment Bank Vice President Ioannis Tsakiris in Malahide to explore expanded cooperation on climate-related and sustainable transport investment. The meeting underscored shared priorities, including renewable energy integration, public transport enhancement, and green mobility initiatives. 💬 Statements from […]

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Africa Continental Brief: Business, Tech, Geopolitics, Security and Human Rights 

🏱 Business Private Sector Momentum and Trade Integration đŸ’» Technology AI, E-Mobility, and Digital Infrastructure Drive Growth 🌍 Geopolitics Strategic Alliances and Regional Realignments 🔐 Security Conflict Zones and Governance Challenges ⚖ Human Rights Legal Oversight and Civic Freedoms Under Scrutiny

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Global Charter on Children’s Care Reform: guidance on developing commitments and requesting technical assistance

As part of the Global Campaign on Children’s Care Reform, the UK government is encouraging countries to strengthen families, expand safe and nurturing family-based alternative care, and progressively end the use of institutions to care for children. Countries that sign the Charter are encouraged to make their own commitments describing specific actions they will take […]

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Governments can’t achieve their climate goals if they don’t include local communities

Climate change is no longer some abstract, future threat. It is now a present problem, and its impact will become exponentially worse if we fail to respond with robust adaptation and mitigation plans. While the whole planet faces serious climate challenges, some areas are inherently more vulnerable than others. This vulnerability depends not only on […]

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Screening saves lives: Pink October

  “When you receive an invitation to a breast cancer screening, trust it. Don’t be scared to follow it up,” says Silvia Deandrea, director of the Lombardy region breast cancer screening programme in Pavia, Italy. “It’s most likely your results won’t be serious.”   Under her many job hats, Silvia runs a multidisciplinary team of nurses, […]

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President Higgins Honoured as Honorary Bencher of King’s Inns

🎓 Summary In a ceremony held at King’s Inns, Henrietta Street, Dublin, President Michael D. Higgins was appointed an Honorary Bencher, the most prestigious recognition conferred by Ireland’s legal community. The title acknowledges his lifelong commitment to justice, human rights, and constitutional values, and places him among a distinguished group of legal and civic leaders. […]

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How to defend ‘the very condition of a living democracy’ in France and worldwide

Director of the CERI at SciencesPo, StĂ©phanie Balme conducted a study for France UniversitĂ©s, an organisation whose members are presidents of universities, titled “Defending and promoting academic freedom. A global issue, an urgent matter for France and Europe. Findings and proposals for action.” She shares some of her insights here. Unofficially unveiled on October 2, 2025, […]

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UPDATED WITH SENTENCE: How the CPS used new National Security Act legislation to prosecute the plot to sabotage Ukrainian aid warehouses on UK soil

A group of men have been sentenced following an arson at a warehouse housing humanitarian aid and Starlink satellite equipment destined for Ukraine.  Jake Reeves (left) and Dylan Earl The attack – which caused damage and repairs costing around ÂŁ1m – was orchestrated by Dylan Earl, 20, and Jake Reeves, 23, who were recruited by […]

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Two Defendants Convicted of Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIS | Office of Public Affairs

Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, Abdullah At Taqi, 26, of Queens, was convicted by a jury on all counts of an indictment charging him and co-defendant Mohamad David Hashimi with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and […]

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