Category: World

📍 Amsterdam, July 11, 2025 — A coordinated international crackdown on human trafficking has led to the rescue of 1,194 victims and the arrest of 158 suspects across 44 countries, according to Europol. The week-long operation, dubbed Operation Global Chain, was spearheaded by Austria and Romania, with support from Europol, Frontex, and Interpol. 🛂 Scope […]

📍 Kerrville, Texas — July 11, 2025President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump traveled to Kerrville, Texas on Friday to meet with families affected by the catastrophic July 4 flash floods, which have claimed at least 121 lives, including dozens of children at Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp along the Guadalupe River. […]

📍 San Antonio, July 9, 2025 — In the aftermath of the devastating July 4 floods across Texas Hill Country, the FBI San Antonio Field Office has issued a public warning about fraud schemes that frequently emerge during disaster recovery efforts. The agency urges residents and donors to remain vigilant against scammers posing as charitable […]

📍 Rome, July 10, 2025 — Minister of State for International Development and Diaspora Neale Richmond represented Ireland at the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2025, a high-level international forum convened in Rome to mobilize global support for Ukraine’s reconstruction and reform efforts amid ongoing Russian aggression. The conference, co-hosted by Italy and Ukraine, brought together governments, […]

Business & Macroeconomy 🇧🇼 Botswana has adjusted its currency strategy, allowing the pula to depreciate by 2.76% over the next year amid reduced global diamond demand. This is a steeper devaluation than the initially planned 1.51%. 🇰🇪 Kenya faces mounting debt obligations, allocating $531 million for external debt repayment in July alone. Of this, $432 […]

📍 Dublin, July 11, 2025 — Minister for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy Jennifer Murnane O’Connor has announced €330,000 in funding to support outdoor swimming initiatives nationwide. The investment is part of the Healthy Ireland programme, now in its second year, and aims to improve accessibility, safety, and inclusivity at designated swimming […]

UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva on Friday that “we’ve raised concerns about atrocity crimes having been committed and the risk of further atrocity crimes, where people are lining up for essential supplies such as food and medicine and where they are being attacked, where again… they have a choice between being shot […]

📍 Helsinki/Vienna, July 11, 2025 — On the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Secretary General issued a joint statement honoring the memory of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys killed in July 1995. The leaders expressed solidarity with survivors and families, emphasizing that nearly 1,000 victims remain missing, […]

Los Angeles, Federal authorities have charged Paul Richard Randall, 66, of Orange, California, with health care fraud for allegedly orchestrating a $270 million scheme to defraud Medi-Cal, California’s public health insurance program, through fraudulent prescription drug reimbursements. 💊 Scheme Overview Between May 2022 and April 2023, Randall and co-conspirators exploited a temporary suspension of Medi-Cal’s […]

On April 24th, Veolia’s shareholders voted by more than 99% to inscribe the company’s corporate purpose into its bylaws. This means that Veolia’s board of directors will need to monitor the implementation of its corporate purpose by executive management even more closely than before. What approach will they take? Rather examining how corporate management handles corporate […]