Nine out of 10 children in Gaza could not eat nutrients from enough food groups to ensure healthy growth and development, a United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) report published on Thursday found. The report points out that localized conflicts are intensifying severe child food poverty. Children in extremely fragile contexts, such as in [...]

The Chinese Ministry of State Security on Monday published a statement accusing the British Secret Intelligence Service MI6 of turning two unnamed Chinese state employees into spies for the British government. According to the public statement, the two suspected spies were a couple both serving sensitive functions within the Chinese government. In 2015, one of [...]

The Slovenian government on Thursday endorsed a motion to recognize a Palestinian state and and sent for parliamentary approval. Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob announced on Monday that, after a series of consultations, he would place on the agenda of a Thursday government meeting a decision to forward recognition of Palestine to the National Assembly. [...]

The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution designating July 11 as the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the Srebrenica Genocide in 1995. The resolution was adopted by a recorded vote of 84 in favor, 19 against, and 68 abstentions. It designates July 11 as the “International Day of Reflection and Commemoration [...]

The US Department of State announced on Monday the public designation of former Chief of the Bangladesh Army Staff Aziz Ahmed for significantly engaging in corruption. Under section 7031(c) of the annual Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, a public designation imposes a travel ban against Aziz and his immediate family [...]

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday assented to the Preventing and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill, which criminalizes the offenses of hate crimes and hate speech in the country. According to the president’s office, under the new law, a hate crime is found “if a person commits any recognised offence under [...]

Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), on Monday traveled to Iran to meet with Iranian officials regarding the country’s accelerating nuclear program amid tensions in the wider Middle East over the Israel-Hamas war. Grossi traveled to Tehran on Monday, where he held high-level meetings with Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Minister of [...]

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled on Thursday an international framework for the regulation and use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) during a meeting at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. “enerative AI has the potential to be a vital tool to further enrich the world. AI will make great contributions [...]

The Superior Council of Communication (CSC) of Burkina Faso said in a statement on Sunday that it had suspended several more international news outlets for covering a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accusing the country’s military of killing civilians. According to the CSC, TV5 programs are suspended for two weeks, while access to the websites of [...]

Advocate General (AG) Athanasios Rantos of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Thursday issued an opinion, largely siding with an Austrian lawyer and privacy activist who sued Meta for misusing his personal data to send him targeted advertisements. Meta is the parent company of popular social media platforms like Facebook and [...]