Category: World

Europe is staring at a dual crisis it hasn’t managed to solve. House prices across Europe have risen 60 percent and rents 30 percent over the past 15 years, while the number of building permits has fallen 20 percent. The European Investment Bank estimates the EU currently needs 2.25 million additional housing units, roughly 50 […]

Stepping inside a supercomputer facility is usually an overwhelming experience. These vast machines contain hundreds of thousands of processors working together to perform calculations far beyond the reach of ordinary computers. They consume huge amounts of energy, generate intense heat and are often extremely noisy. So, when France Boillod-Cerneux from the French Alternative Energies and Atomic […]

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia have been battling their former allies in Sudan’s military government for control of the country since April 2023. According to local sources, at least 12 people were killed in attacks on two towns in North Darfur near the Sudan-Chad border, the UN’s Deputy Spokesperson told journalists on Tuesday.  Additional […]

Addressing a high-level Security Council debate convened by China, Mr. Guterres described the UN Charter as “a survival guide for humanity” but said its core principles were now under “profound strain” as geopolitical divisions deepen, and conflicts intensify across multiple regions. “We now face the highest number of conflicts since the founding of the United […]

“Absolutely unacceptable,” WFP chief Cindy McCain tweeted on Tuesday, a day after the airstrike. “These deliberate attacks MUST end. Aid workers and humanitarian assets are not a target.” The UN agency said on Monday that a warehouse used for its humanitarian operations “was targeted by a precision-guided, Iskander ballistic missile,” marking the second time the facility has come under fire in six months.  The warehouse was storing enough humanitarian food assistance to […]

Following the airstrikes in Lebanon, families were seen spending the night in their vehicles in the capital Beirut, where some shelters have taken in dozens of families in the past 24 to 48 hours.   Nearly one million people overall are still displaced across the country in the wake of the escalation of hostilities between Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants that began on 2 […]

Thank you, Mr Chair. And thank you Chairs also for convening this meeting so promptly. The United Kingdom condemns the latest wave of Russian aerial attacks against Ukraine, carried out overnight on 23-24 May. Russia used around 600 drones and 90 missiles to strike Kyiv and multiple regions across Ukraine. This was the largest attack […]

Today, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division filed a lawsuit against the University of California for its deliberate indifference to race and national origin discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students at its University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “Earlier this year, […]

We are facing a deeply complex set of conflicts, including protracted crises in the Middle East, Sudan, and Ukraine. On this, I feel compelled to mention Russia’s egregious attacks on Ukraine over the weekend, which only brings us further from the peace that the international community repeatedly calls for. These challenges require a coordinated global […]

A federal jury in the Eastern District of New York convicted a New York man for his role in conspiracies to commit health care fraud, illegally distribute Suboxone, and pay and receive illegal health care kickbacks. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Tony Brown-Arkah, 78, of New York, New York, was the […]