Category: World

Under shelling and gunfire, Esraa cradled her newborn son. As the war in Sudan broke out in April 2023, she was trying to reach a health clinic for treatment for her baby, who had been struggling with infections and breathing difficulties. But with the roads blocked by fighting, the young mother never made it to […]

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian will attend the upcoming BRICS summit in Russia, state media cited. Tehran’s ambassador in Moscow said on Sunday this was due to tensions with the West over military cooperation between the two countries. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday that Russia had received ballistic missiles from Iran and […]

The prevailing narrative of how humanity came about seemed straightforward enough: in Europe, the last Neanderthals bowed out as Homo sapiens began arriving on the continent around 40,000 to 45,000 years ago. Neanderthals were thought to be part of a single, genetically homogeneous population, spread across Spain, France, Croatia, Belgium, and Germany. Genetic studies supported […]

1:34 p.m. EDT MR MILLER: Okay. For the run of show, we have a couple officials here: Jim O’Brien, who is the Assistant Secretary for Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs; and Jamie Rubin, the Director of the Global Engagement Center, who will take questions about the announcement the Secretary just made. And then at […]

By calling this meeting today on ‘western weapons transfers to Ukraine’, Russia has, yet again, succeeded only in drawing our attention to its continued hypocrisy. Just days ago, it came to light that Russia has received Iranian ballistic missiles for use in prosecuting its illegal war against Ukraine. The transfer poses a direct threat to […]

Workers in a cotton factory in Awat County, a Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China. Copyright Imago/Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy. The Bureau of International Labor Affairs’ 2024 “List of Goods Produced with Child Labor or Forced Labor,” released today, provides a sobering glimpse into global labor exploitation, which affects millions and intersects with pressing global […]

In a statement released via his Spokesperson, Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the latest Israeli attack on a school serving as a shelter in Nuseirat on Wednesday, which killed six staffers from the UN Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA, along with at least 12 others, including women and children. “This incident raises the number of UNRWA staff […]

On August 25, 1944, Charles de Gaulle delivered an emotional address to a large crowd at the Hôtel de Ville. Paris, he declared, had been “liberated by itself, liberated by its people with the help of the armies of France, with the help and assistance of the whole of France, of that France which fights, […]

The meeting was co-chaired by Will Middleton, Cyber Director at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and Naoki Kumagai, Ambassador in charge of Cyber Policy and Deputy Director-General of the Foreign Policy Bureau at Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). Representatives attended from the UK’s FCDO, Cabinet Office (CO), Department for Business and Trade […]

With “labor” in our name, it’s no surprise that the U.S. Department of Labor’s mission is to support our nation’s workers. As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, our top priority is engaging with workforce stakeholders to ensure their participation and inclusion […]