Category: World

In the quiet hours before dawn, far from the public debate of newsrooms and courtroom halls, a fundamental human reality unfolds in homes across America. A mother sits beside an empty bedroom, holding a drawing made by her six-year-old child. Thousands of miles away, in a quiet hotel outside Monrovia, Liberia, a father stares at […]

KEY TAKEAWAYS On June 18, European institutions declared culture to be a strategic priority for the European Union. It is now recognised that cultural activities produce tangible and positive psychological, physiological, social and behavioural responses that are good for your health. “Museotherapy”, or museum-based art therapy, is gaining ground, and the first museum visits on prescription […]

Note: View indictment here. View detention memo here. An indictment was unsealed today charging a former postman with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) with unlawful secretion, destruction, and delay of mail after he allegedly unlawfully threw away mail that he was entrusted to deliver – including approximately 300 mail-in ballots to registered voters in Utah. […]

We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, and the High Representative of the European Union, consider that the situation in Yemen represents an unacceptable threat to regional stability and security, to global energy security as well as to navigational rights and freedoms, […]

The Justice Department, on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), lodged a proposed settlement agreement with medical equipment sterilizer Steri-Tech Inc. yesterday to resolve allegations that it violated the Clean Air Act and related federal and Commonwealth of Puerto Rico regulations at its Salinas, Puerto Rico, sterilization facility. Under the proposed settlement, Steri-Tech will […]

Policymakers are sounding the alarm about AI and social media in schools, as PISA’s latest report confirmed that student performance in reading continues to decline. French Education minister Édouard Geffray lamented the “cognitive destruction” of a generation, while his Spanish counterpart, Milagros Tolón, recommended a focused effort to improve reading because “reading is the foundation […]

Mr Vice-President, I deliver this statement on behalf of a group of eleven countries that remain firmly committed to the two-State solution, in accordance with relevant UN Security Council resolutions and the New York Declaration, as the only credible path to a just and lasting peace, security and dignity for both Israelis and Palestinians. Israeli […]

Europe’s fishing fleets land 3.2 million tonnes of fish a year, worth €5.5 billion. Yet fishers, scientists and regulators still lack a complete picture of what is happening at sea. In Belgium, for example, which has only around 60 fishing vessels, onboard scientific sampling currently covers just 1.5% of fishing trips, said Els Torreele. She […]

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The An Garda Síochána [Irish Police] has issued an urgent public warning regarding an escalating financial scam targeting individuals across Ireland through fraudulent bank text messages and sophisticated social engineering tactics. The alert follows a significant surge in fraudulent activity. According to figures released by law enforcement, seven known victims were defrauded of approximately €150,000 […]