Category: World

“We’re seeing the consequences spread faster than we can respond”, warned the UN emergency relief chief, Tom Fletcher, as violence reverberates across borders causing mass displacement and economic shocks.  Speaking to reporters in Geneva, the UN’s top humanitarian aid official said, “this is a moment of grave peril” and warned that without additional support “millions of […]

For years, Pedro Almodóvar’s films have deployed variations on the same narrative device: a prevailing sombre tone is carefully established, and then punctured by unexpected yet striking bursts of humour. This is evident throughout his oeuvre: the bourgeois lady who scolds her nun daughter for interrupting her while forging Marc Chagall paintings in All About […]

Statistics on International Development (SID) focuses on the main international measure of Official Development Assistance (ODA) spend. SID is published twice a year: provisional ODA spend in the spring and final ODA spend in the autumn. The provisional SID publication is based on summary data with limited sector and geography breakdowns. The final SID publication […]

  The EU stepped up its fight against unsafe products last year, with alerts through its rapid warning system rising 13% to 4,671, the highest level on record. The figures come from the European Commission’s annual Safety Gate report. Safety Gate is the EU’s rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products, allowing authorities from the […]

“I didn’t come here to get rich. I came because I had no other way to keep my son safe and care for my displaced family”. Anna is a 28-year-old woman from eastern Ukraine. She fled the country in 2023 after Russian troops invaded. Two years later, she agreed to become a surrogate in Georgia […]

Theodore Roosevelt’s labor legacy: 5 facts   As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, the U.S. Department of Labor is recognizing the figures who shaped our nation’s history. To this end, we recently inducted President Theodore Roosevelt into our Hall of Honor. It is a fitting tribute to a leader who championed the American Worker and […]

Global instability did little to slow the growth of international tourism in 2025. According to the UN Tourism Data Dashboard, the total number of international travellers last year stood at over 1.5 billion, exceeding pre-pandemic levels. The question is no longer whether geopolitics makes us travel less, but how it reshapes tourist flows. For a […]

The Justice Department announced today that Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, also known as “Shahzeb Jadoon,” pleaded guilty to attempting to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries, for attempting to enter the United States and carry out a mass shooting with automatic weapons at a prominent Jewish center in Brooklyn, New York. Khan pleaded guilty today […]

Hostilities continue across the Middle East, with ongoing strikes, rising civilian impacts and mounting pressure on critical infrastructure and humanitarian services. On the diplomatic track in New York, China and Russia vetoed a Security Council resolution put forward by Gulf States to ensure safety and security of ships in the Strait of Hormuz – find […]

The whole point of Brexit was to change the UK’s relationship with Europe. And one of the less visible shifts has occurred in the financial markets, affecting pension funds and the cost of borrowing. Before the referendum, when London’s stock market sneezed, Europe caught a cold. Now though, our research suggests that the financial relationship […]