Category: World

Brussels | June, 2025 – Canada and the European Union signed a new security and defense agreement on Monday, aimed at deepening transatlantic cooperation amid growing global instability and evolving geopolitical alliances. The agreement enables Canadian companies to participate in EU-funded defense procurement programs, granting them access to the EU’s €150 billion joint defense fund—marking […]

What do you think hell smells like? British researcher Dr William Tullett has faithfully recreated its foul odour – or at least how our forefathers imagined it. Thanks to an EU-funded research initiative called ODEUROPA, which ran from 2021 to 2023, Tullett did not need to spend years scouring archives across Europe. Instead, the information […]

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to host the presidents of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda in the coming weeks to formalize a peace agreement aimed at ending decades of conflict in eastern DRC, according to senior Africa adviser Massad Boulos. Speaking at the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Luanda, Angola, on Tuesday, […]

SUDAN – UN Warns of High Genocide Risk The United Nations warns that the risk of genocide in Sudan remains “very high” amid continued ethnically motivated violence by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). UN official Virginia Gamba cited targeted attacks on ethnic Zaghawa, Masalit, and Fur communities, especially in Darfur and Kordofan. The war between […]

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – June, 2025Japanese multinational corporation Sony has extended financial assistance to 283 Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia who were reportedly subjected to exploitative labor conditions, including going without pay for seven months while employed by a separate company, Kawaguchi Manufacturing Sdn Bhd. The support was confirmed by International Rights Advocates (IRAdvocates), a […]

Toledo, Ohio — June, 2025Three men from Lima, Ohio, have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in the armed robbery of a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier, announced the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio. The sentencing was handed down by U.S. District Judge James R. Knepp. The robbery occurred […]

Dublin, Ireland – June, 2025A lorry driver making routine deliveries is being hailed as a hero after helping to rescue a man from a burning building in Dublin’s north inner city on Monday, June 23, 2025. The incident occurred on Granby Row on Monday morning, when a fire broke out in a residential building. Tomasz […]

DALLAS — A Texas truck driver has been sentenced to life in federal prison for the kidnapping and death of a 25-year-old woman, Acting U.S. Attorney Nancy E. Larson announced today. Naasson Hazzard, 28, of Austin, was convicted in January 2025 following an eight-day jury trial on a charge of kidnapping resulting in death, a […]

SAN FRANCISCO – June, 2025A federal jury has convicted Antonietta Nguyen, 57, of Brisbane, California, for orchestrating a multi-year embezzlement and fraud scheme that defrauded her employer, a San Francisco-based seafood wholesaler, of more than $9 million, announced U.S. Attorney Craig H. Missakian. Nguyen, the former Chief Financial Officer and a minority shareholder of ABS […]

Understanding how wildfires influence our planet’s climate is a daunting challenge. Although fire occurs nearly everywhere on Earth and has always been present, it is still one of the least understood components of the Earth system. Recently, unprecedented fire activity has been observed in boreal (northern) and Arctic regions, which has drawn the scientific community’s […]