The new head of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) faces a formidable task: raise urgent funding to get the organisation back on track following damaging revelations about its former management, just as tight budgets prompt many donors to rethink their climate spending. Rindra Rabarinirinarison, who served as Madagascar’s economy and finance minister from 2021-2025, […]
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is one of Iran’s most influential politicians and has close ties to the military. But he is also often associated with corruption as well as his role in the suppression of protests.
The UN General Assembly has passed the resolution on transatlantic slavery despite opposition from the US and European countries.
Nigeria is expanding security partnerships as extremist threats rise, strengthening cooperation with France, receiving continued US military support, and renewing engagement with EU leaders.
With energy prices soaring and the Strait of Hormuz still closed, the world must cut demand. From 4-day workweeks and petrol rations to turning down the air con, here’s what some countries are trying.
Leading European populists are throwing their weight behind Viktor Orban’s reelection campaign. But the Hungarian prime minister lags behind the opposition due to talk of corruption, scandal and his Russian ties.
Hormuz 25 March 2026 #1 lalasor Wed, 03/25/2026 – 22:52 Strait of Hormuz Wed, 03/25/2026 – 12:00 25 March 2026 Citing an unnamed senior official, Iranian state media reported that Tehran had rejected a U.S. proposal on ending the war, while laying out its own conditions including “a complete halt to ‘aggression and assassinations’ by the enemy, […]
Washington 24 March 2026 #1 lalasor Wed, 03/25/2026 – 22:53 Washington Wed, 03/25/2026 – 12:00 24 March 2026 President Trump stated the Iran “gave us a present and the present arrived today, and it was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money… It wasn’t nuclear, it was oil- and gas-related, and it was […]
Tehran 22 March 2026 #2 lalasor Wed, 03/25/2026 – 22:53 Tehran Wed, 03/25/2026 – 12:00 22 March 2026 Iran’s government maintained that while “maritime traffic has not been suspended” in the Strait of Hormuz, “vessels, equipment and any assets belonging to the aggressor parties – namely, the U.S. and the Israeli regime – as well as […]
Hormuz 22 March 2026 #2 lalasor Wed, 03/25/2026 – 22:55 Strait of Hormuz Wed, 03/25/2026 – 12:00 22 March 2026 Iran’s government maintained that while “maritime traffic has not been suspended” in the Strait of Hormuz, “vessels, equipment and any assets belonging to the aggressor parties – namely, the U.S. and the Israeli regime – as […]
