Category: World

A Mexican national pleaded guilty yesterday to participating in a two-year, multimillion-dollar trade-based money laundering conspiracy that moved drug trafficking proceeds through Texas to Mexico. According to court documents, Gabriel Arturo Castillo, 52, of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, participated in a sophisticated, international money laundering conspiracy to transfer proceeds from the sale of illegal drugs […]

The strait has become a global flashpoint which has driven up the price of oil, threatened the safety of ships and seafarers while rocking regional stability. Early signs are mixed as of Wednesday night, but the US and Iran are due to hold negotiations on solidifying the truce in Pakistan at the weekend.  Why it […]

Whether it’s the Mediator pharmaceutic scandal in France or the outcry over the Dieselgate emissions case that rocked Europe’s largest carmaker, when a scandal breaks, we often hear about one or two whistleblowers, but we are also left wondering why all those who knew said nothing as the disaster unfolded. Why do most people remain […]

The Teaching Hospital in East Darfur’s capital, Al Deain, was struck late Friday, a new low in the brutal conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that erupted in April 2023. According to the UN World Health Organization (WHO), the number of people killed has risen to 70, […]

Identifying weeds, checking out the pollen map, or discovering new plant life-forms are among the promising wealth of data available to users of PlantNet – a “Shazam!” for plants. Pierre Bonnet and computer scientist Alexis Joly introduced us to the digitally enhanced plant recognition application they developed. The Conversation: What can you tell us about PlantNet […]

The Strategic Stability Programme (SSP) is the UK government’s initiative to address the growing risks that threaten international security and stability. These risks include larger and more diverse nuclear arsenals, disruptive technologies proliferating rapidly, and international arms control arrangements failing to keep pace with these developments. The programme exists because today’s security environment is more […]

  On 22 March, Belgium will mark 10 years since the attacks in Brussels in 2016, when suicide bombers targeted Brussels airport and its metro. The attacks claimed 32 lives and left more than 300 people injured, sending shockwaves across the country and across Europe. Ten years on, many survivors continue to live with the […]

The EU is in the process of creating a new system that will make it easier to return irregularly present migrants to their country of origin. The legislation, known as the Returns Regulation, includes measures that make it possible to detain more people – including children and families – for longer periods of time. This […]

New tool makes union finances easier to understand Every year, the Office of Labor-Management Standards collects thousands of detailed financial reports from unions. The largest unions file a detailed report called Form LM-2, which can be hundreds of pages long. We collected over 5,000 LM-2 reports in fiscal year 2025 alone. When I arrived just […]

People in many parts of the world are worried about rocketing energy bills as the conflict in the Gulf continues. But for the majority of renters in Sweden’s apartment blocks, this is not so much of an immediate concern. Part of the reason for this is that many buildings have communal laundries where washing machines […]