Category: World

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Matthew Miller: Deputy Secretary of State Kurt M. Campbell met today with United Arab Emirates National Security Advisor His Highness Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Washington. Deputy Secretary Campbell and Sheikh Tahnoon discussed opportunities for the two countries to work together to use artificial intelligence and other […]

Afghanistan’s most recent floods killed about 350 people, including dozens of children, and damaged more than 7,800 homes leaving over 5,000 families displaced.  UNICEF has since provided safe water, hygiene kits with soap, toothbrushes and more to communities in Afghanistan. The children’s fund also organised hygiene sessions to teach civilians about handwashing and safe water storage […]

The EU’s approach to managing migration flows depends heavily on outsourcing border control to non member countries, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Many far-right politicians enthusiastically back this policy: 19 nations recently signed a letter calling to go “beyond the EU’s migration pact” and further externalise migration control. This is, […]

American TV host Bill Maher delivered a monologue on Saturday addressing what he describes as “gender apartheid” and critiquing the selective outrage of some modern activists. Maher’s commentary touched on the oppression of women in various parts of the world, drawing attention to issues often overlooked by Western protesters. “For the last couple of years, […]

Mr. Guterres began the day by laying a wreath at the Peacekeepers Memorial Site on the grounds of UN Headquarters in New York in honour of the more than 4,300 “Blue Helmets” who lost their lives over the Organization’s nearly 80-year history.  Later, at a ceremony in the Trusteeship Council Chamber, he called for a […]

Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, who fled Russia a decade ago for fear of persecution, may face a criminal case in Moscow for violating the Kremlin’s “foreign agent” law, TASS news agency reported on Sunday. Russian law enforcement officials, the state news agency reported, said there is “every reason” to charge Kasparov, without providing […]

The announcement of Israel’s ceasefire proposal was still fresh on Sunday morning when dozens of hostages’ family members joined the more than 100k participants and observers in the New York Jewish Community Relations Council’s Israel on 5th parade in Midtown, Manhattan. For Shani Segal, cousin of 36-year-old released hostage Rimon Kirsht, she couldn’t have asked […]

The memorial to fallen workers outside Labor Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. Every year, on average, dozens of workers are fatally injured in my home state of Idaho. Of those lives lost, seven were between 19 and 25 years old. For many, English was not their first language. Almost half were fall-related.  One of the […]

The city of Rafah on Gaza’s southern border with Egypt had been home to well over a million forcibly displaced by nearly eight months of daily bombardment by the Israeli military, in response to Hamas-led terror attack in southern Israel on 7 October. “Thousands of families now shelter in damaged and destroyed facilities in Khan […]

Dr Jeremy Bricker, a hydraulics and coastal engineer, is dreaming big. Somewhere on the North Sea coast, he imagines construction of a dam to manage the supply of clean energy to Europe’s “lowlands”. Dam good Bricker is also working towards that goal. He and other engineers are part of a project that received EU funding […]