Category: World

The 20th century saw humanity develop in leaps and bounds, and without a doubt one of the most revoultionary advances was oral contraceptives, more commonly known as “the pill”. Until the 1980s, the majority of women had extremely limited and ineffective options when it came to contraceptives. Many left a great deal to chance, using […]

More than 250 people are reported to have been killed, amid fears that the toll could rise to over 500, the UN Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a flash update on the disaster, issued on Thursday. Gezei Gofa Woreda, in southern Ethiopia, suffered three successive landslides following heavy rains on […]

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with Lao PDR Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith today during the ASEAN-related ministerial meetings in Vientiane, Lao PDR. Secretary Blinken emphasized the U.S. commitment to ASEAN centrality and our shared vision of an Indo-Pacific that is free, open, connected, prosperous, secure, and resilient. Secretary Blinken expressed gratitude to Foreign […]

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Saturday it had thwarted a series of planned terrorist attacks in the southern region of Dagestan, state news agency RIA reported. The planned attacks were allegedly aimed at police forces and an Orthodox Christian church. FSB said it had arrested three Russian citizens in the city of Kaspiysk […]

Rabat, 24 July – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is organizing a meeting (24-25 July) on ‘Regular Pathways for Human Mobility’ in Rabat, Morocco under the Africa Pillar of IOM’s Africa-Europe Flagship Initiative, which aims to facilitate the orderly movement of people within Africa and between Africa and Europe. The meeting is an ambitious […]

Joe Biden’s decision to step down from the 2024 campaign is yet another significant moment in this year’s US election, following on from the attempted assassination of Donald Trump the previous Saturday, July 13. Not since 1968, when Lyndon Johnson withdrew from the nomination process, has the incumbent president not stood for his party’s nomination […]

The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of Lao PDR and the United States of America as the Co-chairs of the Mekong-U.S. Partnership (MUSP) on the occasion of the 3rd MUSP Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on July 27, 2024, in Vientiane, Lao PDR. Begin Text: We, the Co-chairs of the Mekong-U.S. Partnership […]

In recent decades, Europe has seen a worrying increase in cases of vector-borne tropical diseases like dengue, malaria and chikungunya. The climate directly affects the spread and distribution of pathogen-transmitting insects like mosquitoes and sandflies, as their life cycle and survival are linked to temperature and humidity. Sandfly bites transmit leighmaniasis to humans. OMS / […]

This travel advice covers Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs). Your travel insurance could be invalidated if you travel against advice from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). Areas where FCDO advises against travel Gaza FCDO advises against all travel to Gaza. Areas near Gaza FCDO advises against all travel to the area […]

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Matthew Miller: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with PRC Director of the CCP Central Foreign Affairs Commission and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Vientiane, Laos, on the margins of the ASEAN-related ministerial meetings on July 27. The two sides had open and productive discussions on key bilateral, […]