Category: World

Government experts are meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, to work towards a possible negotiating mandate on autonomous weapons systems (AWS). These are military systems that can select and engage targets without human intervention. This major international gathering follows a recent call by the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for urgent controls […]

Notices Sanctions Notice, Isil (Da’esh) and Al-Qaeda, 20 August 2026 (PDF, 264 KB, 28 pages) Sanctions Notice, Isil Da esh and Al-Qaeda, 17 August 2026 (PDF, 170 KB, 8 pages) Sanctions Notice, ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaeda: 14 August 2026 (PDF, 197 KB, 8 pages) Sanctions Notice, Isil (Da’esh) and Al-Qaeda, 10 July 2026 (PDF, 142 […]

Heatwaves claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people in Europe’s capital cities this summer, as they experienced record temperatures. In London, emergency wards filled with elderly patients injured after fainting in the heat. Meanwhile, the dry weather created subsidence and left homes with cracks. In Paris temperatures exceeded 40°C in late June and […]

Over the summer, Europe provided a stark new set of images of climate change. Wildfires raced across forests and grasslands, rivers and reservoirs dried up in droughts and extreme heat disrupted everyday life. Instead of the familiar photographs of people enjoying days at the beach, coverage of heatwaves increasingly comes with images of their consequences. […]

On her visit to Nuuk, President von der Leyen announced that the EU will invest €200 million in and with Greenland this year and the next. The EU, Greenland and Denmark also signed a new Joint Declaration to strengthen the common investment agenda, political dialogue and people-to-people exchanges. Source link This article was originally published […]

For decades, Sweden was known as one of Europe’s most welcoming countries for refugees. It took pride in pursuing one of Europe’s most generous asylum policies, and often presented itself as a humanitarian role model. But today it has one of the continent’s most restrictive migration policies. That transformation has taken little more than a […]

The results of Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt state election on September 6 were far worse than feared for the country’s mainstream political parties. The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) came close to winning a majority of votes, with 43.8%. This was about 4% higher than polls had suggested. Support for the centre-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany […]

An international team has discovered a third planet orbiting the nearby star Beta Pictoris. The new planet, Beta Pictoris d, is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b, the first planet discovered in the same system. It is among the lightest exoplanets ever imaged from the ground. This first clear detection of Beta Pictoris d […]

The British Embassy in Ecuador can offer help but will not be able to get you out of prison or get you special treatment because you’re British. Find out what help the embassy or consulate can offer. Family and friends can contact: the British Embassy in Ecuador the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) in […]

“Seeing the Earth from above is a powerful reminder of our interdependence,” Thomas Pesquet. The words of France’s tenth astronaut to head into Space are a reminder of how we are “in this together”, something that the world’s Aerospace industry players should take heed of as they gather in Paris for the first-ever International Space […]