“We want to convince everyone to join a single [European] political party,” said Gilles Boyer, a French MEP from a party called Horizons created by former French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, allied to Macron. “The message is that we’re uniting and that’ll make us stronger,” Boyer, who will be the association’s treasurer, added. Macron’s MEPs … Read more
The food travelled 200 kilometers by sea from Larnaca to a makeshift jetty off Gaza, arriving Friday. A convoy of eight trucks from the World Food Programme brought the aid to its final destination. The Cyprus government said a second vessel, Jennifer, loaded with some 500 metric tons of aid is ready to leave Cyprus … Read more
The drop off marks an initial success for the new maritime corridor, which the WCK and Spanish NGO Open Arms opened this week with the support of various EU and Arab governments. “This was a test,” wrote WCK founder José Andrés on X. “[W]e could bring thousands of tons a week.” “We want to increase … Read more
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says it is facing numerous challenges in addressing epidemic-prone diseases in the country.The Director General, Jide Idris, highlighted inadequate funding and substandard healthcare infrastructure as part of the challenges at the state level during a news conference on Saturday in Abuja. The NCDC boss said that … Read more
Mumbai: Large trusts of corporate houses, CSR foundations, and many non-profits are in a dilemma as the March 15 deadline for advance tax approaches. The bone of contention is a new law that kicked in from FY24 and imposes a tax on the slice of the money that larger trusts give to smaller NGOs doing … Read more
More than 3 million people were displaced by the earthquake. Hundreds of thousands of them still live in container houses or tents in arduous conditions. And thousands of others weren’t even given tents, being left to rely on friends or relatives instead. After the earthquake, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had pledged to rebuild the homes … Read more
Despite the IOC’s ultimate recommendation to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in Paris as neutrals — that is, without a national flag or anthem — the International Gymnastics Federation recently decided not to include any Russian gymnasts on the list of athletes permitted to take part in qualifying competitions for the 2024 Olympics. … Read more
The Kremlin has laughed off an attempt by the CIA to recruit spies from Russia via social media. “Somebody should tell the CIA that VKontakte is much more popular here than the banned X [formerly Twitter] and that VKontakte has a much larger audience,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday, according to state-run news agency … Read more
