Category: World

Overview The UK Government supports all legitimate economic activity in the Falkland Islands and welcomes continued private-sector interest and involvement in the Islands. This guidance is for companies and individuals that: conduct business or other economic activity in the Falkland Islands supply goods or services to the Falkland Islands are otherwise involved (directly or indirectly) […]

THE HAGUE / UTRECHT — A coordinated series of intentional disruptions brought major sections of the Dutch rail network to a standstill. The incident occurred early Tuesday morning, coinciding with Prinsjesdag (Budget Day), the traditional opening of the parliamentary year in The Hague. Railway infrastructure manager ProRail and national operator NS reported that materials deliberately […]

  The European Commission has adopted the fair mobility package that will guarantee social rights for workers, regardless of where they choose to live in the EU. Workers will be able to have their professional skills understood everywhere in the EU and prove and claim their social security and health insurance rights.  The new package will also better protect mobile workers from abuse and remove burdensome […]

Throwing something away that is urgently needed, expensive and difficult to source sounds crazy. Yet out of the 60 metals contained in old electronic devices like phones, screens or washing machines, only a few get recycled. That includes precious metals like gold or silver and some other metals like aluminium or copper. The rest are […]

Thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), their teams findings could change how gum disease is diagnosed and treated in the future. Working with microbiome testing and diagnostics company Salient Bio and IBM Research, the team have developed a new AI-powered approach to understanding periodontitis. This is a severe form of gum disease that affects hundreds of […]

Jonathan Hunter Kramer, 21, a resident of Valencia, Pennsylvania, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with receiving a firearm and ammunition knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the firearm and ammunition would be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism, including providing, attempting to provide, and conspiring to […]

From his office on the outskirts of the French city of Toulouse, Roland Séférian literally charts out the future of our planet. Working at the National Centre for Meteorological Research (CNRM), the climate scientist designs models that project future climate change. Among the best known are the models featured in reports by the Intergovernmental Panel […]

The action plan builds on progress made since the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s (BBSRC) first equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) action plan published in 2023. The plan identifies where more work is needed to address ongoing challenges, including: the under-representation of female leaders inequity across ethnic groups bias in peer review Progress since […]

On September 6, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) took 43.8% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, more than double the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU)‘s 17.2%. Turnout was 77.8%, the highest in the state’s history of free elections. The party campaigned on a platform that included a deportation and remigration offensive, and pursuing “all […]

Andrei Samuilovski, 32, who has citizenship in Estonia, Switzerland, and Russia, pleaded guilty today in connection with a scheme to illegally export U.S.-origin aviation and aerospace parts to Russia in violation of U.S. sanctions. Samuilovski pleaded guilty before Judge Carl J. Nichols to a one count information charging him with conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act. A sentencing date is scheduled for Jan. 13, 2027. Samuilovski faces a maximum penalty of 20 […]