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Date: July 25, 2025 Business & Macro 🇧🇼 Botswana Seeks Larger Stake in De BeersBotswana is pursuing an increased ownership stake in De Beers, the diamond company majority-owned by Anglo American, according to the Financial Times. The move reflects the government’s long-term strategy to secure greater returns from its diamond resources. Climate & Energy 🇬🇭 […]

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia continues to escalate its repression of press freedom, with 14 journalists currently detained under opaque and arbitrary conditions. Among them are Wajdi al-Ghazzawi, Turad al-Amr, Maha al-Rafidi, and Zana al-Shahri, whose cases reflect a broader pattern of silencing dissenting voices. This intensifying crackdown reached a chilling milestone with the execution […]

In a unified effort, the Departments of State, Justice, and the Treasury have announced a comprehensive initiative to disrupt North Korea’s transnational criminal enterprises, which include activities such as cryptocurrency theft, fraudulent IT work, counterfeit trafficking, and oil smuggling. These operations, often targeting American companies and citizens, directly fund North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction […]

Office of the Spokesperson On the Thailand-Cambodia Border Conflict | Press Statement July 24, 2025 The United States is gravely concerned by reports of the escalating fighting along the Thailand-Cambodia border.  We are particularly alarmed by reports of harm to innocent civilians.  We express our deepest condolences on the loss of life.  We strongly urge […]

Marking its 30th anniversary, ISA is the world’s authority on the deep-sea beyond national jurisdiction. Washington may have passed an order on deep-sea licensing in international waters earlier this year, but the authority’s chief Leticia Carvalho said the United States, which is not an ISA member, “is going at it alone”. “The rest of the […]

Most of us are already quite comfortable recycling our household waste. In Spain, for instance, millions of tonnes of packaging are processed every year, but did you know that buildings and their materials can also be recycled, or that an entire building could be completely dismantled and reassembled? Formula 1, often a laboratory for innovation, […]

While WFP has been able to hold hunger at bay across northern Nigeria in the first half of 2025, funding shortfalls are jeopardising such efforts, with lifesaving programmes set to grind to a halt by the end of July.   Without immediate funding, millions of vulnerable people will be left without food assistance as WFP’s […]

At a high-stakes one-day summit in Beijing, the European Union and China reached a preliminary agreement to ease export restrictions on rare earth elements, a move welcomed by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as vital to restoring trust in bilateral trade relations. The curbs, introduced by China in April 2025 amid escalating trade […]

A Russian passenger aircraft operated by Angara Airlines has crashed in the Amur region of the country’s Far East, killing all 49 people on board. The Antonov An-24, a Soviet-era twin-engine turboprop, disappeared from radar on July 24 while attempting a second landing approach near Tynda, a remote town close to the Chinese border. The […]

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has arrived in Luxembourg for a two-day official visit, where he will meet with Prime Minister Luc Frieden to discuss key economic and geopolitical issues. The visit builds on the strong bilateral relationship between Ireland and Luxembourg, following Frieden’s visit to Dublin in September 2024. The leaders will focus on: Ireland and […]