Category: World

If you travel internationally you should buy appropriate travel insurance before you go, covering you for existing physical or mental health conditions (including those currently under investigation) and any activities you will be doing whilst you are away. If you do not have appropriate insurance before you travel, you could be liable for emergency expenses, […]

  It’s not just EU citizens who enjoy freedom of movement within the European Union. Thanks to the adoption of harmonised EU rules on travelling with pets, your cats, dogs, and indeed, ferrets, also enjoy this right too. If you’re travelling this summer around the EU with your four-legged friend, simply make sure their EU […]

The Medical Research Council (MRC), in collaboration with the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), has provided £28.5 million in funding to establish the Human Functional Genomics Initiative programme. It aims to advance our understanding of how genomic variation influences human physiology and how it changes over time and in disease. Who is leading […]

Across Europe, more than 50 countries “are paying the ultimate price”, said WHO Regional Director Dr Hans Kluge, only days since Earth recorded its warmest average temperature yet, at 17.16 degrees Celsius (62.89 Fahrenheit), and as exhausting summer heatwaves hit across the northern hemisphere. Dr Kluge said that the three warmest years on record in […]

Eighty years ago today, the Nazis murdered more than 4,200 Roma in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau, most of them ill, elderly, women, and children. By the end of World War II at least 250,000 Roma had been killed by the Nazis and their collaborators. Today, we commemorate and honor them all. The genocide of […]

Evan Gershkovich, the American Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter who has been held in Russian prison for more than a year, is now free, the White House announced Thursday. Gershkovich, 32, was freed as part of a massive, 24-person prisoner exchange that included several prominent people jailed by Russia.  The list of those released includes […]

From her offices in Cape Town, South Africa, Zandile Ntuli is on a mission to foster stronger links between innovators and investors across Europe and Africa.  Three years ago, the former corporate executive pivoted careers to focus on start-ups. Today, she draws on her corporate skills to enable small businesses from both continents to thrive.  […]

France was hurt, divided and in need of a great federating event after recent elections. And Emmanuel Macron framed the Olympic Games as an opportunity to “unite around a France that welcomes the world”, calling for a “political truce” during that time. Conservatives, however, believe that the great moment of national cohesion has yet to […]

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The United States welcomes the open-ended ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced by Angola on July 30.  We applaud the Government of Angola, and in particular Angolan President and AU Champion for Peace and Reconciliation João Lourenço, for his mediation efforts.  We welcome the Angola-led Ad Hoc Verification Mechanism’s important role in monitoring the ceasefire.  […]