Category: World

Satellites waste energy in space. Some radio waves spill beyond their intended targets, while some of the sunlight reaching a spacecraft falls outside the range that conventional solar panels can effectively capture. Researchers from seven European countries are working together to see if some of that lost energy can be recovered. The initiative, called POWERSAT […]

NEW YORK — The Irish Government has announced a funding package of €96 million aimed at tackling acute child hunger and malnutrition across the African continent. Speaking at a high-level event co-organized by UNICEF in New York, Taoiseach Micheál Martin reaffirmed Ireland’s commitment to international development aid and humanitarian support. The financing will be channeled […]

PARIS — What began as a local walkout at a suburban high school north of Paris has spiraled into France’s largest high school protest movement in decades, sparking widespread school shutdowns, political clashes, and civil unrest across the country. The unrest originated in mid-September at Lycée Paul Éluard in Saint-Denis, just north of the capital, […]

Thank you, Mr Vice-President. The United Kingdom thanks the High Commissioner for his report and remains deeply concerned by the grave human rights situation, particularly in eastern DRC. We are alarmed by continuing reports of unlawful killings, conflict-related sexual violence, the recruitment and use of children, arbitrary detention, and attacks against schools, healthcare facilities and […]

Mr President,  On behalf of a core group of Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom, I present draft resolution L.26, which responds to the Human Rights and Humanitarian Crisis in Sudan.  Mr President, the UN Fact-Finding Mission’s report paints a devastating picture: communities shattered, millions displaced, and civilians trapped in a cycle […]

Thank you, Moderator. Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine continues to inflict immense suffering on civilians. More than four years after the start of the full-scale invasion, evidence assembled by OSCE/ODIHR, successive OSCE Moscow Mechanism expert missions, the United Nations and other independent bodies continues to paint a deeply disturbing picture. This reporting documents the […]

Wanying Zhang, 34, also known as Heather Zhang, of Irvine, California, was arrested Sunday on a one count complaint charging her with acting in the United States as an unregistered agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), including by conducting surveillance on family members of a high-ranking Taiwanese government official. “The […]

We begin the 81st session after a year of significant achievement and we recognise the work of the previous Chair and Bureau in driving it forward. June’s agreement on a revised credits methodology demonstrated what constructive engagement can deliver.  We urge all members to bring that same spirit to our work: translating reform commitments into […]

This publication highlights the main achievements of UK International Climate Finance from 2011 to 2026. It summarises results from 15 key measures used to track progress in UK international development programmes that have climate change adaptation or mitigation as an objective. Source link This article was originally published on https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/uk-international-climate-finance-results-2026. It is shared here under […]

Chair, The UK strongly supports the OSCE’s comprehensive approach to security, and the central place of the human dimension within it. Democracy, human rights, fundamental freedoms and the rule of law are essential to our collective security – and as the UK Foreign Secretary has made clear, defending these values is the only real route […]