Category: World

The SPIRIT programme (Social Protection for Inclusion, Resilience, Innovation and Transformation) will support Ukraine to strengthen more inclusive and efficient social protection systems and revitalise community and family-based services. SPIRIT will support the Foreign Secretary’s priority to ensure a safe and loving family for every child, improving social care services for 10,000 families across 10 […]

Germany is holding an election on February 23 and the contest is attracting an unusual amount of attention. That’s because the far-right Alternative for Germany (AFD) is polling in second place on 20% of the national vote. Should the party end up with a vote share on this scale, it would be its best ever […]

  Sofia Pereira Sá was diagnosed with cancer in summer 2023 and underwent 20 rounds of chemotherapy. She still feels some side effects now, such as “chemo brain”. “All these side effects prevented me from being the mum I wanted to be for my one and half-year-old son. I couldn’t play with him, I couldn’t […]

MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Ladies and gentlemen, let us welcome His Excellency Luis Abinader, the constitutional president of the Dominican Republic; and His Excellency Marco Rubio, Secretary of State of the United States of America. (Applause.) Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. We welcome you to the ambassador’s hall, the seat of Dominican government, where we welcome […]

A criminology student at Liverpool University has been sentenced for sexually assaulting two female students. Ewan Blair Ewan Blair, 20, of Brownlow Hill in, Liverpool, met both women in the autumn term of 2023 and both said he seemed friendly at first. He met one of the women in a bar in Liverpool city centre […]

The process of industrialisation, globalisation and urbanisation – spreading out from urban centres into the countryside – is one of the core developments of modern society. It has changed people’s lives in almost every part of the world. This is a process that has been going on for more than a century. New lifestyles have […]

As part of a fragile ceasefire agreement, Hamas released three Israeli hostages on Saturday while Israel freed dozens of Palestinian prisoners. The complex negotiations, which began following the October 2023 Hamas attack on southern Israel, represent a critical step toward a broader resolution, though questions remain over the deal’s long-term sustainability. Hamas released three Israeli […]

In a historic move, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia have severed their last electricity connections with Russia and Belarus, marking the end of decades of reliance on the Soviet-era power grid. On Saturday morning, the Baltic nations disconnected from the Russian-linked system, setting the stage for a complete integration with the European energy network on Sunday. […]

The Justice Department announced today that a federal judge in Oklahoma City has approved an agreement with Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS) to resolve allegations that OKCPS violated Air Force Reserve Staff Sergeant Michael J. McCullough’s rights under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA). The department’s lawsuit alleged that OKCPS […]

In a decisive move to address the surge in hate crimes, particularly antisemitism, the Australian government has passed the Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2024. The new law aims to curb extremist speech and violence, establishing stringent penalties for those found guilty of inciting hate, supporting violence, or threatening harm against groups, religious institutions, […]