Category: World

“We had to watch two of the babies die before our eyes,” said Dr. Hasan Babikir, describing the death of premature triplets he was unable to treat due to a lack of intensive care beds. As tens of thousands of people, many in urgent need of healthcare, flee the violence engulfing South Kordofan, health workers […]

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has long exerted a strong, often underestimated power in the Middle East. With around 190,000 members, plus an estimated 450,000 reserves in the Basij paramilitary, the largest component of Iran’s Armed Forces also controls much of the country’s politics, intelligence and economy. After an Israeli airstrike assassinated the Islamic […]

For researchers at the Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) in Slovenia, the realisation that gender-balanced research is better research hit home in 2024. That year, scientists at JSI’s space medicine laboratory, working with the European Space Agency, were testing ways to improve astronauts’ health – but only on men. Around that time, US astronaut Sunita Williams […]

In conflict and crises around the world, humanitarian and UN personnel are often the first to arrive and the last to leave, risking their lives to save others.  2024 was the deadliest year on record, with 383 aid workers killed.  In 2025, over 320 were killed. And, already, in 2026, the devastation continues with aid […]

Florian Borgwardt and Tibor Erős, ecologists and life-long freshwater enthusiasts, have set their sights on helping restore the mighty Danube. They are working within an international partnership of scientists, conservationists and local communities to restore the river’s ecosystem and biodiversity. Flowing through 10 countries and 4 capitals, Europe’s second-longest river is a vital artery for […]

  The Commission presented EU Inc., a new single set of corporate rules that will be the same and apply across the EU. This will make it easier for businesses to start, operate and grow across the EU. Its optional, fully digital procedures would enable innovative companies to scale up and incentivise them to stay in Europe and encourage those who once looked elsewhere to return. EU Inc. is part of the new broader 28th regime that offers businesses the chance to seize the benefits of the single market.   […]

Gas prices in Europe have risen again following disruptions to LNG supply chains linked to tensions in the Middle East. This comes as the European Union enters the final phase of its plan to phase out Russian gas. The scale of the physical disruption is limited when compared with the loss of Russian pipeline flows […]

Impactful film “City of Dreams” ignites a productive discussion Hundreds of thousands of people work in exploitative conditions in the United States. Most never see them or have any idea how many people toil without pay, how many children are employed illegally, how many workers are denied the rights to which they are entitled to […]

Today, the Department of Justice and the FBI announced a court-authorized technical operation to neutralize the U.S. portion of a network of small office/home office (SOHO) routers compromised by a unit within Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) Military Unit 26165, also known as APT28, Sofacy Group, Forest Blizzard, Pawn Storm, Fancy […]

On 4 June 2025, air traffic controllers in Spain’s Canary Islands held a clear, uninterrupted conversation with a commercial pilot flying high above the Atlantic. To most people, that might sound routine. For flights far from land, it is anything but. Over oceans, clear and instant air traffic communication is still the exception rather than […]