Category: World

The 2024 Canada-U.K. Media Freedom Award has been presented today to independent Afghan journalists and media organizations for their courageous reporting despite restrictions imposed by the Taliban.  The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, and H.E. Lord Collins of Highbury, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Africa) of the United Kingdom, presented the […]

The United States welcomes today’s signing of a landmark $480 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) grant to the Government of Sierra Leone to boost access to electricity, to foster sustainable economic growth, and to improve the quality of life of its citizens. This grant, coupled with a voluntary contribution of $14.2 million from the Government […]

For this National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) wants you to know that help is available. First, if you or someone you know is in crisis, call 9-8-8. This free and confidential suicide and mental crisis lifeline is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  Suicide deaths are […]

A new team of 26 leaders has been appointed to the European Commission, reflecting a carefully crafted balance of political ideologies and member states. Each will take on a different portfolio, from democracy to agriculture to innovation. And for the first time, the EU will have a dedicated defence commissioner in the form of Lithuania’s […]

Zebra Technologies Corporation, the digital solution provider, will demonstrate end-to-end AI machine vision solutions at VISION 2024 from 8-10 October in Stuttgart, Germany.    Visitors will see how manufacturers, including those in the automotive, food and beverage, and packaging sectors can equip their engineers, programmers and data scientists with flexible deep learning machine vision solutions […]

The following is attributable to Spokesperson Matthew Miller:    Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer today in New York.  The Secretary discussed the importance of reaching an agreement on the 21 day ceasefire across the Israel-Lebanon border proposed by the United States, Australia, Canada, the European […]

“Palestine will remain ours. And if anyone were to leave, it will be the occupying usurpers,” he declared. He began by highlighting that Palestinians have endured nearly a year of what he described as one of the most heinous crimes of our time. “It is the crime of a full-scale war of genocide that Israel […]

In the past months, the planet has experienced the hottest months of June and August, boreal summer and day on record, with a global average temperature of 17.16°C on 22 July. While many have been getting on with their lives as best as they can, there are many more who are feeling the heat, as […]

The development comes almost 18 months since rival militaries started fighting each other in Sudan, forcing more than 10 million people from their homes – half of them children. “People in Sudan have endured 17 months of hell, and the suffering continues to grow,” said the UN’s top relief official Joyce Msuya, Acting Under-Secretary-General for […]

For Zoe Lefkofridi, a professor of politics and gender at the University of Salzburg in Austria, there cannot be real democracy without gender equality.  But past progress cannot be taken for granted. Despite significant steps in Europe towards gender equality, opposition seems to be on the rise. “The EU has been a pioneer in promoting […]