Category: World

For most policymakers, export credit agencies (ECAs) are financial tools that boost national companies’ business endeavours abroad. But a recent research project conducted by Philipp Censkowsky, Paul Waidelich, Igor Shishlov, and Bjarne Steffen reveals the profound impact they have on the energy transition. Our study analysed 921 energy-finance deals backed by ECAs from 31 countries […]

  EU rules that update the lists of pollutants in surface and groundwaters have entered into force, aiming to improve water resilience and reduce pollution. The updated lists reflect the latest scientific advice and ensure that new substances are monitored more closely and subject to stricter controls. New substances added to water pollutant lists The […]

Compounding the alarm triggered by Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the erratic unpredictability of the second Trump administration has made the need for European security autonomy obvious. On a number of occasions over the past year, Donald Trump has loosely intimated that he might leave the Nato defence alliance. Washington’s recent move to withdraw […]

The crisis is unfolding as Chad struggles to cope with a massive influx of refugees and returnees fleeing the civil war in neighbouring Sudan, placing enormous pressure on already stretched services in the country’s east. “Chad is currently hosting more than 1.3 million refugees and returnees, most of them women and children” Andrew Saberton, UNFPA […]

Independent studies by the agencies paint a picture of widening disparities that begin in childhood and continue into higher education, despite decades of global progress in school and university enrolment. An unequal report card Examining the relationship between economic inequality and children’s wellbeing in 44 OECD and high-income countries, the UNICEF report found that rates […]

The UN chief was speaking at the opening of the Africa Forward Summit, co-hosted in Nairobi by Kenyan President William Ruto and French President Emmanuel Macron.  “The name of this Summit captures the moment – and the mission,” he said.  “Africa is not waiting. Africa is moving. Africa is leading.”  Driving debate, finding solutions  Mr. Guterres highlighted how Africa is driving the debate around reforming global financial institutions that […]

Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Iranian national Sharon Gohari pleaded guilty to unlawfully smuggling aliens into the United States and intentionally receiving child sexual abuse material (CSAM). For years, Gohari, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen and resided alternately in Iran and Nassau County, New York, solicited and received payments from Iranian nationals […]

The mayor of Arcadia, California, has been charged in federal court with acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Justice Department announced today. Eileen Wang, 58, of Arcadia, is charged via information with one count of acting in the United States as an illegal agent of a foreign government. […]

Remarks as prepared for delivery. Thank you, U.S. Attorney Hayes, for the work you and your office have put into investigating this matter with us. Good morning. I’m Adam Gustafson, the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department Environment and Natural Resources Division. We join the U.S. Attorney’s Office in prosecuting this important matter. The […]

A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida returned a six-count indictment today charging Brandon Sartor, 33, of Hyattsville, Maryland, with sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion and related charges. According to court documents, Sartor compelled two adult women to perform commercial sex acts in Miami and elsewhere for his financial benefit […]