Sudan: Top UN aid official warns of ‘abandoned crisis’ as war enters fourth year

Denise Brown, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, said the crisis is following a grim pattern of repeated abuses and repeated suffering. “We are on repeat in Sudan,” she told journalists in New York by video link from the capital Khartoum. “Please don’t call this a forgotten crisis. I’m referring to this as an abandoned crisis.” […]

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Turning CO2 from urban waste into useful consumer products

Europe’s cities emit huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Two essential urban services – waste incineration and wastewater treatment – are among the biggest contributors to municipal CO2 emissions in the EU. These systems are vital for public health and urban life, yet they produce emissions that are difficult to eliminate entirely. But what […]

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UK boosts funding to local responders to help more than 1.8 million people in Sudan’s humanitarian crisis 

Foreign Secretary doubles aid for frontline responders and Sudanese aid groups up to £15 million to support the hardest to reach areas in Sudan UK will pledge £146 million humanitarian funding for Sudan this year Yvette Cooper demands warring parties cease bloodshed as she arrives in Berlin for the International Sudan Conference, on the third anniversary of Sudan’s war The Foreign Secretary today (15 […]

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Religious Liberty Commission Holds Final Hearing on the Past, Present, and Future of Religious Liberty in America | Office of Public Affairs

Today, the Religious Liberty Commission (RLC) held its final hearing to discuss the past, present, and future of religious liberty in America.  “Today’s capstone hearing of President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission contained more powerful testimony and discussion about how people of religion are under assault by the secular left,” said Chairman Dan Patrick. “It is […]

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Texas Man Faces Multiple Federal Charges Related To Attack on AI Company and its CEO | Office of Public Affairs

A Texas man was charged federally today with attempted damage and destruction of property by means of explosives and possession of an unregistered firearm after he threw a Molotov cocktail at a San Francisco residence and attempted to set a related business on fire on April 10, 2026.   According to the federal criminal complaint filed today, Daniel Moreno-Gama, 20, of Spring, Texas, is alleged to have traveled to […]

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Justice Department Announces Compensation Process for OneCoin Fraud Victims With Funds Recovered Through Asset Forfeiture | Office of Public Affairs

Today, the Department of Justice announced the beginning of the remission compensation process to provide recovery for victims of the international investment scheme involving OneCoin Ltd. Between 2014 and 2019, Ruja Ignatova and Karl Sebastian Greenwood, co-founders of OneCoin Ltd. (OneCoin), and others orchestrated a large, international cryptocurrency investment scheme defrauding investors from around the […]

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Tennessee Man Pleads Guilty to Arson and Attempting to Provide Material Support to a Foreign Terrorist Organization | Office of Public Affairs

Today, Regan Darby Prater, 28, currently of Tullahoma, Tennessee, entered a guilty plea to one count of arson and one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Prater pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville. Sentencing has been set before U.S. District […]

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Office of Public Affairs | Former Loveland, Colorado Police Department Officer Sentenced for Sexually Assaulting a Minor Child

Today, a federal judge in Denver, Colorado, sentenced Dylan Miller, 30, a former Loveland, Colorado Police Department (LPD) officer, to 17 years in prison and five years of supervised release for sexually assaulting a minor while he was on duty. The sentence comes after a jury returned a guilty verdict on Dec. 2, 2025, on […]

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I observed how tradition survived harsh Sovietisation and rapid transformation

When Soviet president and Communist party secretary Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the policies of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) in the mid-1980s, it marked the beginning of cautious reforms of the Soviet Union. Georgia, or the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, to give it its full name at the time, was on the periphery of the union. […]

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Greece’s new laws crack down on art fakes and forgeries – an expert in the market for shady art explains why they might backfire

The art market is riddled with fakes and forgeries. Yet in most countries, those trading in genuine masterpieces are left to their own devices when it comes to monitoring art sales – creating their own ways to flag problematic objects and verify the authenticity of others. New art laws in Greece, however, suggest the country […]

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