Category: World

The incident occurred on Saturday morning local time as a UNIFIL team was clearing explosive ordnance along a road in the village of Ghanduriyah to re-establish links with isolated UN positions. The patrol came under small-arms fire from non-state actors. “Tragically, one peacekeeper succumbed to his injuries and three others were injured, two of them […]

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In a statement issued on Friday, the agency warned that the incident threatens vital humanitarian operations supplying clean water to hundreds of thousands of people. “UNICEF is outraged by the killing of two drivers of trucks contracted by UNICEF to provide clean water to families in the Gaza Strip,” the agency said. The two men […]

Why it matters The major questions going into the process which is now underway are: Which country will the next UN chief come from? Will a woman be chosen to lead the Organisation for the first time? How will the five Permanent Members of the Security Council overcome their political differences in an increasingly fractured […]

Three Memphis men have been sentenced following their convictions at trial on Nov. 12, 2025. A jury convicted Darius Moore, 39; Mervin Anderson, 40; and Mario Gardner, 49, all of Memphis, of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. Yesterday, the court sentenced Moore to 210 months in prison. Anderson and Gardner were previously sentenced to 150 months and […]

Today a federal jury in the Southern District of West Virginia convicted a West Virginia man for aggravated sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, between September 2006 and December 2006, Dustin Stover Bowles sexually abused a minor known to him while he […]

The Justice Department announced today the settlement of United States v. David Montanus and Lisa Montanus, the first lawsuit filed by the Civil Rights Division to enforce the Housing Rights Subpart of the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 (VAWA), 34 U.S.C. § 12495. The Justice Department’s lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court […]

Fabrizia Falcione, UNFPA Country Representative in Sudan, briefed journalists in New York on a recent assessment based on 95 focus group discussions across 16 out of 18 states. Roughly 1,000 women girls participated and 76 per cent of those aged 25 to 49 “reported feeling unsafe in the displacement camps and sites, but also outside […]

The Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division announced the following actions from across the country to hold individuals accountable for schemes that attempted or succeeded in defrauding the American taxpayers out of over $340 million. “The National Fraud Enforcement Division is committed to prosecuting anyone who steals from American taxpayers. Over the past seven days […]

The update came on Friday, in a release by the World Food Programme (WFP), which has been working with the government and partners to assist 2.7 million people in Haiti by providing emergency food assistance, school meals, social protection programmes, and assistance to smallholder farmers. “These small improvements to food security numbers must not lead […]