New Uruguayan president Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou

UN launches new project to address link between arms, crime & terrorism

Several United Nations agencies have launched a new project to address the link between terrorism, arms and crime through enhancing national legislative, strategic and operational capacities to prevent, detect and counter the firearms trafficking and other illegal activities related to terrorism and organized crime. The UN has repeatedly warned that illicit flows of small arms […]

Oil-drilling vessel capsizes in Gulf of Suez, leaving four dead and four missing

At least four crew members have been confirmed dead and four others remain missing after an oil-drilling ship capsized on Tuesday evening off the coast of Ras Ghareb in Egypt’s Gulf of Suez. The vessel, which had 30 workers aboard, overturned near Gabel el-Zeit, a key oil production hub roughly 300 kilometres south of the […]

Double the Share of Renewables in the ‘Decade of Action’ to Achieve Energy Transition Objectives – IRENA

The share of renewables in global power should more than double by 2030 to advance the global energy transformation, achieve sustainable development goals and a pathway to climate safety, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has urged. Renewable electricity should supply 57 per cent of global power by the end of the decade, up from […]