Belgium 2025: abundant culture, budgets under pressure
Between Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia, the cultural year 2025 showed a creative, plural and very lively Belgium – but also more attentive…
Review of the 4th quarter of 2025: volunteers linked to Scientology support European social initiatives
KINGNEWSWIRE // PRESS RELEASE // Scientology-related European Community Initiatives mark final quarter of 2025 with clean-up operations, drug prevention actions and human…
At UN, nations pledge people-centered digital future, stronger AI safeguards
The high-level meeting marked the conclusion of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20), a process launched in the early 2000s…
“Almost invisible crisis”: UN urges world not to look away from Myanmar
Speaking has UN News During a visit to U.N. headquarters in New York, Gwyn Lewis, acting resident and U.N. humanitarian coordinator in…
Fifty days later, Jamaica struggles to rebuild after the unprecedented destruction of Hurricane Melissa
Current estimates place the total damage and losses at between $8 billion and $15 billion, or almost a quarter of Jamaica’s gross…
World news in brief: Progress in the fight against hunger in Asia-Pacific, repair of the main Gaza pipeline and flu hits Europe hard
The prevalence of undernourishment in the region fell to 6.4 percent in 2024, from 7 percent in 2023, marking a significant improvement,…
Yemen on the brink: Guterres calls for restraint and calls for the release of UN detainees
Speaking to the media outside the council chambers in New York, he highlighted the simmering tensions across Yemen and “spectacular new developments»…
Six peacekeepers buried after deadly drone attack in Sudan
Giving an update at the daily midday press briefing, UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq told correspondents that the “peacekeepers” were killed and…
Corruption costs lives and livelihoods: why this week’s UN summit in Doha matters
Heads of state, civil society and private sector leaders will discuss the most pressing issues related to corruption and how to combat…
World news in brief: Türk condemns ‘heinous’ attack in Sydney, UNHCR chief calls for solidarity with refugees, latest in Ukraine
Volker Türk said the “heinous” shootings targeting a Hannukah celebration on Bondi Beach revealed once again that “anti-Semitism is real and heinous”.…