Category: World

“It’s like I’ve got no strength left at all. Right now I can’t even summon the energy to drink a glass of water, it’s like I’ve been hollowed out from the inside. We spend so much time and energy preparing for glory, but now that I’m living with it I just feel weak and helpless.” […]

Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Richard R. Verma will lead U.S. delegations to Nepal on August 16 and India from August 17-22 to advance and support a prosperous, secure, and resilient future for both countries. In Nepal, the delegation will meet with senior government officials, development professionals, and business leaders to discuss shared priorities in economic development, women’s empowerment, energy, and people-to-people ties. Deputy Secretary Verma will travel to New Delhi, India to meet […]

  Have you noticed anything different about the caps on plastic bottles lately? That is just one of the measures to tackle plastics pollution. Plastics are an important material in our economy that are everywhere in our daily lives but can present negative environmental and health impacts when misused. Since July 3, single-use plastic bottles […]

Created as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Economic Opportunity Act in 1964, Job Corps marks its 60th anniversary this month.  As one of the largest residential career training programs in the nation, Job Corps supports over 35,000 students at more than 120 centers across the country training in vital industries like health care, IT, […]

“Summertime, and the livin’ is easy” – or so they say. During the long holidays many parents will be spending more time with their teens and looking to police their screen time in the hope of getting them outdoors. They’ll be on the lookout for one type of behaviour in particular: doomscrolling. Designing endless, mind-numbing […]

The below is attributable to Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with President of the Sovereign Council of Sudan and Commander-in-Chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.  The Secretary reiterated the need for participation in on-going peace talks in Switzerland to achieve full implementation of the Jeddah Declaration of Commitment to […]

The number of Palestinian children killed by live ammunition fired by Israeli forces has almost tripled since 7 October 2023, compared with the preceding 10 months, rising from 39 to 115. Similarly, the number of Palestinian boys and girls injured by live ammunition fired by Israeli soldiers more than doubled during the same corresponding periods, […]

Learning a second language is a non-linear process that goes far beyond memorising vocabulary and grammar. It opens up new worlds and ways of perceiving what linguists call “units”: sets of objects or forms and the interconnected relationships between them. These units are recognised, understood and ultimately learned through exposure to a variety of contexts […]

Speaking from Sudan, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson James Elder described meeting a senior medical worker at a hospital outside Khartoum who had “direct contact with hundreds, hundreds of women and girls, some as young as eight years old, who have been raped. Many have been held captive for weeks on end.” The medic from […]

The below is attributable to Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke with Mexican Foreign Secretary Bárcena today about the need for the Maduro regime to release untampered, detailed vote tallies from the July 28 presidential election in Venezuela, and to end human rights abuses, including arbitrary arrests and indiscriminate detentions.  Secretary […]