Category: World

Areas where FCDO advises against travel Your travel insurance could be invalidated if you travel against FCDO advice.  Within 25km of Eritrea’s land borders FCDO advises against all travel to within 25km of all of Eritrea’s land borders. Find out more about why FCDO advises against travel. Tensions between Eritrea and Ethiopia are high. If […]

The European soil monitoring directive, adopted by the European Union at the end of 2025, aims to achieve healthy soils by 2050. Brussels’ directive is centred on an environmental DNA based approach. France’s experience in measuring soil quality could be used advantageously, particularly as the best monitoring tools are those that integrate several complementary approaches […]

Why it matters: Some 20 per cent of the world’s gas and oil supplies pass through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway which runs between Iran and Oman, and which has been largely closed to marine traffic since the outbreak of the conflict between Iran and the United States. The disruption of those supplies […]

Gunfire and explosions were reported in the capital Bamako on Saturday and around a large military base outside the capital, as well as Gao and central areas, with gunfire continuing in the northern city of Kidal. Assaults by Tuareg rebels looking to establish a breakaway ethnic state, focused on northern areas while the armed groups […]

Unlike oil and gas, which expose countries to price spikes and geopolitical risk, renewables offer stable, domestically produced power that can strengthen energy security, cut emissions of harmful greenhouse gases and support long-term growth. In the second in our series focusing on how renewables are shaping the future of energy security, UN News looks at […]

“As a female coach, the girls trust me,” she said. “They tell me things they can’t tell anyone else, about pressure to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), about being told to quit school, about relationships that make them feel unsafe.” In parts of rural and hard-to-reach Uganda, female genital mutilation remains a serious human rights […]

– Advertisement – Since the beginning of 2026, Zohran Mamdani has been mayor of New York City. The democratic socialist ran on a clear platform and is now starting to implement it. After around 100 days in office, the first figures show the direction: from autumn 2026 there will be 2,000 free kindergarten places, and […]

His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the UAE, received the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, the Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, on 18 April 2026 for her first official visit to the UAE.   The two […]

Remarks as Prepared for Delivery, “‘The Business We’ve Chosen’ – Federal Antitrust Enforcement in a Changing Media Landscape” Good afternoon — and thank you for inviting me to the town that Moe Greene invented as a stopover for GIs on their way to the West Coast: Las Vegas.[1] Las Vegas embodies the dynamic character of […]

The Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division announced the following actions from across the country to hold individuals accountable for schemes that attempted or succeeded in defrauding the American taxpayers. “Our message is clear: Steal from the American taxpayer, and you will answer to federal prosecutors,” said Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald of the Justice Department’s National […]