Category: World

The United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom worked tirelessly to strengthen the AUKUS partnership by furthering defense trade integration. Today, the Department of State submitted to the Congress a determination that Australia and UK export control systems are comparable to those of the United States and have implemented a reciprocal export exemption for U.S. […]

The outbreak that affected the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and spread to neighbouring countries continues to grow. On Thursday afternoon, WHO member Sweden became the first country outside Africa to record a case of the mpox Clade 1 variant that is believed to be driving the latest outbreak.   “We are hard at […]

Nicholas Haysom, who also heads the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), briefed ambassadors on political, security and humanitarian developments in the world’s youngest nation, which was scheduled to hold its first post-independence elections in December. Election date proposal expected The latest UNMISS report covers the period from mid-February to mid-July, as political parties continued […]

The United States strongly condemns the Houthi seizure of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) headquarters in Sana’a, Yemen.  The storming and takeover of the OHCHR headquarters in Sana’a by Houthi militants violates international norms.  It further demonstrates that the Houthis have no respect for the most basic international practices.  This […]

Fans arriving at Taylor Swift‘s concert in London on Thursday said solidarity among fellow Swifties was helping to dispel any security concerns they had after her Vienna concerts were cancelled last week. The US singer-songwriter is back in London for five dates before her record-breaking Eras tour returns to North America. Her three shows in […]

Gaza is reeling after a missile strike launched by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) targeted a building and mosque within a school complex in Gaza City on August 10. The Israeli military said the school was operating as a Hamas command and control post, but the buildings were reportedly also sheltering more than 6,000 displaced people. […]

If world agricultural authorities don’t get their act together soon enough, your morning orange juice may disappear from the supermarket shelves – for good. This is how critical the situation has become in the citrus growing world. In the past decades, a disease called Huanglongbing (HLB), also known as “citrus greening” disease, has been devastating […]

The United States is imposing sanctions on one individual and six companies, and blocking three vessels, for their involvement in illicit revenue generation to support the Houthis’ destabilizing activities on behalf of Iran-based, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force-backed Houthi financier Sa’id al-Jamal. The United States is also sanctioning one company and blocking four of its vessels tied to Hizballah official Muhammad Qasim al-Bazzal and the shipment of Iranian liquefied petroleum gas valued at tens of millions of dollars. Since the Houthis began their attacks on Red Sea shipping last […]

The Technical Working Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (TWG-SMSPS) for the Far North region, under the co-lead of the United Nations Migration Agency (International Organization for Migration (IOM)), was presented at the French-speaking session of the MHPSS reference group of the Interagency Scale Committee (IASC). Chaired by Cecile Bizoueme and Barbara Levin, both […]

On 25 and 26 July, 35 Stolpersteine were laid in the Channel Islands: 20 in Jersey and 15 in Guernsey. These follow the first and only UK Stolperstein, laid in May 2022 in Golden Square, London, for Jewish Dutch woman Ada Van Dantzig. Stolpersteine were created by the studio of German artist Gunter Demnig, and […]