Category: World

The programme will aid the response plans of national governments in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Nigeria. With the right amount of funding, WFP’s initiative can reach 12 million people, but with diminishing resources available, humanitarians working with the programme have reached fewer people than anticipated. This comes as […]

More Americans can travel abroad today than at any time in our history.  In 1990, only five percent of Americans had a passport.  Today, that number is 48 percent.  In Fiscal Year 2023, the Department of State issued over 24 million passport books and cards – more than ever before.  To better serve the growing number of […]

Staging an upcoming UEFA soccer match between Belgium and Israel in Brussels would be impossible due to insecurity and likely protests, the municipal government of the Belgian capital said on Wednesday. “The city of Brussels considers it impossible to organize a Belgium-Israel match in the King Baudouin Stadium,” it said in a statement. Large […]

Chilli peppers – love them or hate them, they’ve got a heat that’s hard to ignore. Recently, their fiery nature has even caused a bit of a stir in Denmark, where Buldak Ramen noodles have been banned for being dangerously spicy. So, what’s behind the burning sensation we experience when we bite into a chilli […]

Geneva/ Port-au-Prince, 18 June – Nearly 580,000 people are internally displaced across Haiti, a 60 per cent increase since March, according to the latest data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the country.   “The figures we see today are a direct consequence of years of spiraling violence – that reached a new […]

The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and the Republic of Austria on the occasion of the U.S. – Austria Strategic Dialogue. Begin Text The Governments of the United States and Austria held the annual U.S. – Austria Strategic Dialogue in Washington on June 17, 2024.  The […]

Thank you, High Commissioner, for your report. The conflict across Myanmar is escalating alarmingly, inflicting huge suffering on civilians and driving a devastating human rights and humanitarian crisis. Across Rakhine State, all communities are being targeted by ongoing airstrikes and shelling. The spread of disinformation is stoking intercommunal conflict and dividing communities. Recent attacks in […]

The monastery of San Estevo de Ribas de Sil in northwestern Spain is located within 20 kilometres of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route, but for Martín López Nores the two places felt worlds apart. And that gave him an idea. In 2019 López Nores, a professor in the Department of Telematics Engineering of the University […]

Ukraine is investigating the suspected beheading of one of its servicemen by Russian forces in an occupied part of the eastern Donetsk region, the Ukrainian general prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday. Russia, which has repeatedly denied its forces carried out war crimes during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine launched in February 2022, has made no […]

Dominica, 13 June – A safer Dominica for all, particularly children, and other vulnerable members of society – the elderly, disabled persons, women, and minority groups, including migrants – is at the heart of a new campaign launched on 13 June by the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Social Services. With its slogan “Awareness + […]