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- United Nations: Secretary-General Guterres’ 10 years
- Revelations on the history of the slave trade in Africa and the future
- Remittances from families to low- and middle-income countries have doubled in 10 years
- Dissatisfaction with the economy and society spreading among G20 countries
- The right to education taken away by climate change and conflict
- Electricitiy crisis in Gambia, protests ahead of presidential election
- Panama Canal to tighten ship traffic as El Niño intensifies
- The Pacific Forum has revealed vulnerabilities to external pressure and climate
- Worsening global soil degradation
- Surge in pirate activities off the coast of Somalia, impacted by U.S.-Iran War
- Colombia’s new president officially ends “total peace”
- Afghanistan: child malnutrition surges
- Rapid increase in forest fires in Indonesia
- New Zealand: Bill to block climate lawsuits against corporations passed
- Rising crisis facing humanitarian workers
- The world’s fastest spread of HIV intensifies in Fiji
- Youth employment further deteriorates
- Amazon deforestation declines as long-term forest loss continues
- Lebanon: Abolition of the death penalty
- Liechtenstein: The integrity of financial confidentiality shaken by cyber attacks
- Cambodia: Undercover report reveals China-linked wildlife trafficking networks
- Concerns about renewed conflict in northern Ethiopia
- Massive investment urgently needed for decarbonization in the East Asia-Pacific shipping sector
- Nicaragua: Democracy and citizens’ rights under siege
- Is the slowdown in Arctic sea ice reduction an illusion?
- Africa records largest number of hungry people as global hunger declines
- Liberia’s forests are disappearing: The expansion of cocoa cultivation and complex factors at play
- Zambian democracy undermined? Allegations regarding Canadian mining giant
- Major reduction in free school meals, Indonesia
- Burkina Faso records sharp decline in malaria cases and deaths
- New momentum towards peace in Cyprus?
- Debt repayments in low- and middle-income countries far exceed education spending
- Hunger deepens in northern Nigeria
- EU Supreme Court ruling: Publishing videos from Russian broadcasters is illegal
- Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger: Formal withdrawal from the ICC
- CPJ reaffirms journalist definition after Gaza database review dispute
- Why do acid attacks on women in Pakistan continue?
- The number of drug users reaches an all-time high
- Fears of mass atrocities grow in Sudan’s El Obeid
- Solving common challenges with “global public investment”
- Bosnia’s High Representative resigns: The fragile post-war order
- Sri Lanka, a new target for cyber crime organizations
- Gold-linked mercury pollution rising: Women particularly impacted
- Connection of the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline begins
- Opposition movement against Trump’s son-in-law’s resort development in Albania
- Anti-immigrant violence escalates in South Africa
- Invisible crisis of groundwater progressing on a global scale
- Protection of strike rights under UN treaties: Advisory opinion of the ICJ
- The crisis of peacekeeping operations
- World Urban Forum (WUF) ends with call to action on global housing crisis
- Anti-government protests in Bolivia, tensions rise
- Number of death penalty executions reaches record high
- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon slows, but forest degradation continues
- OPCW admits concealing evidence in alleged chemical attack in Syria
- France-Africa summit held
- Oil companies profiting from war
- The marshes of Iraq are rejuvenating again
- “Indigenous health and land are indivisible” – UN forum
- World Press Freedom Day (2026)
- Mauritania’s immigration measures raise concerns of abuse
- World food crisis report warns of serious food insecurity and malnutrition
- Uganda facing crisis of glacier disappearance
- Rohingya refugee deaths crossing the sea reached record high in 2025
- Democracy defence summit held in Spain
- Possible increased antibiotic resistance in infectious diseases due to drought
- Bilderberg Conference: The secretive international network
- Chagos Islands: Agreement on return from the UK to Mauritius “paused”
- Nigeria records the highest fuel price increase in Africa
- Measles surge in Bangladesh reflects global resurgence
- Mozambique fully repays debt to the IMF
- Brazil’s electronic payment system gains popularity, conflicts with the US government
- Largest national census in the world to be conducted in India for first time in 16 years
- Increasing smoke damage and fire hotspots in Southeast Asia
- The organ trafficking industry in Pakistan
- Argentina: Large-scale demonstrations against past dictatorial regime
- Tensions rise between Eritrea and Ethiopia
- Costa Rica: Expansion of illegal gold mining
- Slowing improvement in mortality rates for children under 5
- 20% of aquaculture and fishery products are misrepresented, calls for strengthened surveillance
- 88% of SDGs in the Asia-Pacific region expected to remain unachieved
- 1 in 4 adults worldwide may lose their land
- Is the goal to halve pesticide risks by 2030 impossible to achieve?
- Explosion weapon injury fatality rate found to be 40%
- The escalating drug crisis in Balochistan, Pakistan
- Cocoa surplus is becoming problematic with decline in market prices
- The population infected with trachoma reaches a record low
- Sudan: “characteristics of genocide” reported
- Achievements and challenges of PFAS regulation
- Surge in the use of child soldiers: Colombia
- Violence against civilians increases in Nigeria
- Mongolian glaciers decreasing at fastest rate in history
- Global average of corruption perception index reaches lowest point in 10 years
- Haitian provisional President Council delegates authority to interim prime minister
- Malaysia: ban on electronic waste imports
- The Horn of Africa: Drought and expanding humanitarian crisis
- WHO: Establishing global standards for school meals
- Drug trafficking route, Ecuador
- Large-scale fighting involving civilians unfolds in South Sudan
- Iraq: The toxic legacy of Fallujah
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