UN Opens Accounts in Russian Banks to Receive Payments and Avoid Sanctions: Reuters

UN Opens Accounts in Russian Banks to Receive Payments and Avoid Sanctions: Reuters

The accounts were opened as early as 2022 and are currently being used to collect mandatory and voluntary payments to the organization, a UN spokesman said. Primarily, the UN receives funds from three Russian banks in the climate finance program. “The UN Secretariat has opened accounts in Russian banks, which is in line with our … Read more

The Constitutional Court taught the nation a lesson in the pension dispute

The Constitutional Court taught the nation a lesson in the pension dispute

We love those moments when the Czech nation sits down in front of the TV screens and watches a supremely unfunny show on them, as if it were the final of the world championship in chasing a puck with a piece of wood or a poaching competition combining hill running and shooting. That moment came … Read more

Expert Interview: The Impact of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Virus on Livestock Farming and the Race for a Vaccine

Expert Interview: The Impact of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Virus on Livestock Farming and the Race for a Vaccine

Researcher Eva Calvo Pinilla is considered one of the greatest experts in the study of the epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus -EHE-. She works at the INIA-CSIC Animal Health Research Center (CISA) and is part of the team led by Dr. Javier Ortego that is working on a vaccine to combat this disease in Spain. What … Read more

Lula Da Silva takes office as President of Brazil on January 1, 2024

Lula Da Silva takes office as President of Brazil on January 1, 2024

01/01/2024 at 01:16h. This feature is only for subscribers Subscribe We say goodbye to 2023. A year marked by wars, natural disasters and presidential elections in different countries. The year began with Lula Da Silva taking office as president of Brazil on January 1. In Turkey, Tayyip Erdogan won 52 percent of the vote and … Read more

UN Security Council adopts resolution for humanitarian aid to Gaza Strip

UN Security Council adopts resolution for humanitarian aid to Gaza Strip

Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vasiliy Nebenzia, condemned the US for “blocking a very weak call for a cessation of hostilities”. “If this document was not supported by several Arab countries, then of course we would veto it,” the Russian ambassador said. The resolution was proposed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), but its text … Read more

Latvian MPs Condemn Illegal Relocation of Ukrainian Children by Russia and Belarus

Latvian MPs Condemn Illegal Relocation of Ukrainian Children by Russia and Belarus

88 MPs voted for the adoption of the announcement, including the opposition parties “Latvija first” and “Stability”. In the statement, the MPs express “the most categorical condemnation”, including stating that the illegal and forced relocation of Ukrainian children by Russia and Belarus violates international humanitarian law, as well as the content of war and genocide … Read more

Decreasing Outstanding Loans and Deposits in Provence: Impact on Businesses and Families

Decreasing Outstanding Loans and Deposits in Provence: Impact on Businesses and Families

Las companies and families from province they settled the second trimester with a new year-on-year decline from amount that they had requested in loans. And there has already been a complete year of declines, according to the indicators of the Bank of Spain. A June 2023 date -the figures are provided quarterly and these are … Read more

UN Emergency Meeting on Gaza Conflict: US Veto Stalls Humanitarian Resolution

UN Emergency Meeting on Gaza Conflict: US Veto Stalls Humanitarian Resolution

UN Secretary-General António Guterres had called an emergency meeting of the Security Council in an attempt to push for such a resolution about two months after the start of hostilities in the Gaza Strip. According to the Ministry of Health of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, 17,487 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in … Read more

Controversy and Climate Change: The 28th United Nations General Convention Conference (COP28) in Dubai

Controversy and Climate Change: The 28th United Nations General Convention Conference (COP28) in Dubai

On November 30, the 28th session of the United Nations General Convention on Climate Change Conference (COP28) began in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which will bring together country leaders, businessmen, activists and scientists until December 12 to seek common solutions to the global climate change crisis. By December 3, several public agreements had already been … Read more