Category: World

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Matthew Miller: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.  The Secretary and the Secretary-General expressed their readiness to support an inclusive, Venezuelan-led process toward the re-establishment of democratic norms, in coordination with our international partners.  The Secretary noted that Edmundo González Urrutia […]

If you’re lucky enough to have escaped to sunny shores of late, chances are your colleagues will have complimented you upon your return on your summer glow. Yet tanning as a fashionable practice is both a relatively recent historical phenomenon and one that varies according to place. In fact, sunbathing first became chic by accident, […]

Garoua, July 22 to 26, 2024 – The RIBADOU hotel hosted a series of decisive workshops as part of the PBF GYPI DDR Gender Project titled “Women for Inclusive Reintegration in Cameroon”. These workshops were designed to strengthen the engagement of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in general, and Women’s Organizations (WOs) in particular, in the […]

The following is the joint statement released by the Governments of the United States and Australia on the occasion of the 34th Australia-U.S. Ministerial Consultations.   Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III hosted Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles on August 6 in Annapolis, Maryland, to strengthen further the […]

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Beer may not be the answer to all of life’s problems, but the science behind it could help decarbonise industrial processes and clean up the environment. Biotechnology, which uses living organisms to create different products or processes, remains important in today’s production of food and drink. But it is also increasingly used for a wide […]

  Despite freedom of movement of goods within the EU, there are certain rules on taking certain consumer goods from one EU country to another. Failure to comply with set allowances, which can vary from country to country, could result in the confiscation of your goods, a fine or even criminal prosecution.  Travelling in the […]

On August 5, 2024, the United States and the Kingdom of Thailand Science and Technology Agreement was extended for ten years. Since the Agreement was first signed in 2013, and extended in 2018, the strategic partnership between both nations has continued to grow into a robust and enduring relationship. The latest extension of the bilateral […]

Sudan’s largest refugee camp in North Darfur is facing a surge in new arrivals as floods and famine overwhelm its limited services, according to findings published by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab on Friday. Researchers found that brown floodwaters have submerged “toilets and nine out of 13 water points” in the Zamzam camp, putting its population […]

The development follows the conclusion of an investigation by the UN Office of Oversight Services (OIOS), launched earlier this year after Israel alleged that several UNRWA personnel took part in the brutal assault on its territory in which some 1,200 people were killed and another 250 were taken to Gaza as hostages. However, OIOS was […]