Category: World

First, it is critical that we press all parties to conflict to not only uphold their legal obligations, but to do all they can to protect civilians and minimise harm.  We are deeply concerned at the Secretary-General’s reporting of 37,000 civilian deaths in conflicts in 2025, with Gaza and Sudan suffering the highest toll.   The scale of reported attacks on medical personnel and […]

A warm welcome to this session on domestic capital markets. I should begin with a few thank yous – to colleagues across government, to our development and private-sector partners, and to everyone who has helped bring this session together. And a particular thank you to our panellists – including His Excellency Taiwo Oyedele Minister of […]

When we talk about intellectually gifted children, the debate tends to focus on one of two questions: how we detect this characteristic, and why it doesn’t always translate into higher marks at school. While these are important questions, they overlook another equally important one: what can schools do once they know a student has to […]

The Justice Department announced today that a New Jersey man was charged with making interstate threats to a Jewish organization located in New York, NY. Cameron Patterson, 34, of Newark, New Jersey, was indicted on May 18 for transmitting interstate threats to injure the person of another. According to court records, Patterson sent three emails […]

It’s great to be here to talk about such a fascinating and transformational issue. Today you’ll hear from people who understand this better than I do.  It’s clear there are opportunities.  But I worry about the digital divide and whether AI will be utilised for the benefit of everyone. The decisions we make now will […]

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad. It wasn’t placed beside the body, but inside the mummy’s abdomen. But the real surprise isn’t just where the fragment was found. It’s how it got there. To understand, we must go back – to the Iliad itself, and […]

Good afternoon everyone and thank you for joining us today. It’s great to see such a fantastic group of partners and experts, representing governments, science, philanthropy, and frontline delivery. This is what the Global Partnerships Conference is all about – building new coalitions to tackle the biggest challenges we face. Humanitarian action will always be […]

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is responsible for licensing activity prohibited under the UK’s Russia trade sanctions. DBT has three licensing teams responsible for administering licences on behalf of the Secretary of State. The team you need to apply to is dependent on the activity you want to carry out. You can use […]

Who owns a swarm of bees? And what happens when they stray onto a neighbour’s land? In early medieval Ireland, such questions were addressed by a remarkable set of laws known as the Bechbretha, which set out the rights and responsibilities associated with beekeeping. Also known as bee-judgments, these laws formed part of the wider […]

In an update on the fast-developing situation in eastern DRC, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that beyond the several dozen confirmed cases of infection, there are almost 600 suspected cases of Ebola Bundibugyo virus and 139 suspected deaths.  “We expect those numbers to keep increasing, given the amount of time the virus was […]