Category: World

Thank you, Mr Chair. The present situation in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine is one that the Kremlin could hardly have envisaged when it embarked on its devasting war of aggression. Russia boasted that Ukraine would be defeated in a three-day lightning war, yet today marks two years and 219 days of this […]

On the margins of the UN General Assembly, U.S. Department of State Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment Jose W. Fernandez announced $5 million in food security assistance that will advance the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS) in Guatemala.  Joining from the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, the […]

Today’s climate change is man-made. The consensus in the climate science community is unequivocal, but in order to determine just how exceptional current climate change is, we have had to contextualise the present on a much longer time scale. To do this, scientists working in paleoclimatology (the study of past climate) use information from both […]

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon thanked Argentine President Javier Milei for defending Israel in his speech before the General Assembly on Tuesday afternoon, the two leaders embracing for a handshake following Milei’s speech. “Thank you, President Milei! You are a true friend of the State of Israel,” Danon said in a statement. “In […]

Merci Monsieur President, and welcome to the Special Rapporteur. Let me thank her for her report this morning. It’s a sobering picture in which she depicts a worsening human rights situation. And it’s clear what we’ve seen over the last year is a widespread and systemic application of oppressive legislation to further strengthen the Russian […]

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Speaking from Beirut in the aftermath of Lebanon’s “worst day in 18 years”, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) deputy representative in the country, Ettie Higgins, said that unless the violence stopped, the consequences could be “unconscionable”. The wide-ranging Israeli strikes conducted on Monday in retaliation to attacks by the armed group Hezbollah killed at least […]

In an appeal for greater global solidarity with the people of Sudan, the World Food Programme (WFP) said that around 800,000 people have fled to Ondo in neighbouring Chad after enduring “unimaginable violence”. WFP Communications Officer Leni Kinzli told journalists in Geneva that those fleeing areas at risk of famine said that they had left […]

Dealing with cancer in children is hard enough. Knowing that there are huge disparities in survival rates between higher- and lower-income countries in Europe makes it even worse. But EU-funded researchers are working to address this. Dr Jelena Rascon, a paediatric cancer specialist at the Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos (VULSK) in Lithuania, places great importance […]

Reacting to each threat from Iran’s proxy groups independently, as if they were independent, will leave Israel in a perpetual state of vulnerability, Reza Pahlavi, exiled Crown Prince and last Shah of Iran, told an Iranian flag-wielding crowd on Friday afternoon at the Israeli-American Council’s national summit in Washington, DC. “Merely fighting Hamas or Hezbollah […]