UN Ocean Treaty Talks Resume With Goal to Save Biodiversity
United Nations members gather Monday in New York to resume efforts to forge a long-awaited and elusive treaty to safeguard the world’s marine biodiversity.Nearly two-thirds of the ocean lies outside national boundaries on the high seas where fragmented…
Spy Balloon Lifts Veil on China’s ‘Near Space’ Military Program
WASHINGTON — The little-noticed program that led to a Chinese spy balloon drifting across the United States this month has been discussed in China’s state-controlled media for more than a decade in articles extolling its potential military applications…
UN Secretary-General Guterres Advocates More Debt Relief for Africa
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Saturday that African countries are being denied needed debt relief, noting that because of a lack of financial support, the African continent is facing a very difficult situation.Speaking at a new…
Children Rescued by Multinational Force in West Africa
A multinational force of troops from Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria, on Thursday handed five children rescued from Boko Haram over to Cameroon. The Multinational Joint Task Force of the Lake Chad Basin Commission says scores of children were…
Kenyan Bandits Decline to Hand in Illegal Weapons
A Kenyan government operation to disarm warring parties in the troubled Rift Valley region is off to a slow start. Media reports say a three-day amnesty period for people to hand in illegal weapons resulted in the handover of just three guns. Kenyan po…
THE OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER Yearly €1,000 grant to first-time buyers over ten years
In a press conference at Auberge de Castille, Prime Minister Robert Abela announced that the electoral proposal of giving a yearly €1,000 grant to first-time buyers over ten years is now being implemented. First-time buyers who bought a property last y…