Category: World

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Well, good afternoon again, everyone.  It’s a great pleasure for me to be able to meet with Prime Minister Conille.  We had a chance to see each other in Washington a few months ago.  I greatly admire the work that he’s doing and the leadership that he’s showing in a very challenging situation, but […]

“We can’t allow what’s happened in Gaza to happen,” Kamala Harris’s Vice Presidential running mate Tim Walz told WCMU radio in Michigan in an interview on Thursday. Asked by the interviewer how a Harris-Walz administration would handle the Israel-Hamas war, and whether it would break from the Biden administration, Walz said that October 7 was […]

Remarks Chief of Mission Residence Port-au-Prince, Haiti September 5, 2024 SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good afternoon, everyone. It’s a great pleasure to be in Haiti and to have met with President Leblanc, the president of the Transitional Presidential Council. I think this is a moment of great challenge but also a moment of hope for Haiti, […]

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  I came to Haiti today to meet with Prime Minister Conille, the Transitional Presidential Council, other political and security leaders, to advance our shared commitment to a secure and democratic Haiti. Back in March, we were with CARICOM leaders and other critical stakeholders, Haitians and other partners from beyond the region, in Kingston, […]

Geneva, 2 September – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today praised Ecuador’s new presidential decree introducing an extraordinary regularization process for Venezuelans and their families who currently lack regular status in the country. This initiative is expected to benefit some 100,000 people, according to Government estimates.   Ecuador hosts […]

Published 9 May 2019 Last updated 6 September 2024 + show all updates 6 September 2024 Changes made to align with amendments to regulation 54D. 5 September 2024 Changes made to reflect amendments to legal services prohibition as a result of SI laid by FCDO 1 September 2024 Prohibition 46Z16R has been amended to update licencing […]

We tend to think of people’s memories as being either good or bad. However, you might know someone with a terrible memory for names and faces who is very good at learning languages. Another person might have an extraordinary ability to recall past events in detail, but they struggle to memorise phone numbers. These apparent […]

  Europe’s identity is defined by its rich and diverse cultural heritage. Nowhere is this more evident than in the many different towns and cities dotted across our continent. This is something to be celebrated. That is why, every year, the EU rewards and recognises two or three cities as a European Capital of Culture, […]

Franklin Lee Bennett worked for Family First Inc., an assisted living facility in Manchester, Tennessee with a focus on care for patients with Alzheimer’s and similar diseases. The job sometimes required him to work more than 40 hours per week, which entitled Franklin to overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). When he […]

When Dr Andrés de la Escosura, an organic chemistry researcher at the Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem) in Madrid, Spain, set out to fundamentally change the way that we produce the chemicals used in everyday life, his rationale was simple. Chemistry in nature is clean and efficient, whilst industrial chemistry is anything […]