International Congress of Mathematicians dispute signals shifting global confidence in US academic freedom
In a statement issued on March 30, the Berlin-based IMU acknowledged widespread anxieties regarding US entry and the ability of scholars to feel “safe and welcome” in Philadelphia.
Kakuma Refugee Camp in northwestern Kenya unveils reduce, reuse and recycle waste management project
Deputy Manager of Kakuma Municipality Halima Duba clarified that through the project, the municipality will place properly labelled waste collection bins at strategic places around town, coordinate collection of the waste, and initiate the dumping procedure on a regular basis.
EPA raises concerns over quality of drinking water in US amid fears growing it could be the dirtiest in the world
The EPA said it is considering adding micro-plastics, pharmaceuticals and PFAS to its latest list of drinking water contaminants, opening the door to new research and potential regulation. The move comes alongside a $144 million federal initiative aimed at understanding and reducing micro-plastics in the human body, as officials warn of growing – but still poorly understood – health risks.
Horrors of slavery: His job was to impregnate slave women, then impregnated his owner’s wife and daughter
When Sheriff Thomas McKinley drew his pistol, Margaret Harlow, the plantation owner’s wife, stepped forward, her belly opened, her child lying dead at her feet, and she raised her bloodied hands in front of Tobias.
Before slave trade was abolished in USA, slaves on plantation farms in Texas would receive 150 lashes for offence of dancing without a permit
Hall kept a white overseer and a Black driver beneath him. The driver was an enslaved man given authority to push other enslaved people harder, a position that sat at one of the cruellest intersections slavery could produce.
US President Trump imposes 100 per cent ad valorem tariff on certain pharmaceutical imports
The tariffs imposed will be effective on or after 12:01am eastern daylight time on July 31, 2026.
UN reopens office in Khartoum after Sudanese army pushed out paramilitary Rapid Support Force of capital
For his part, Associate Administrator of the UNDP Xu Haoliang said the return of UN agencies to Khartoum represents important support for Sudan in the current phase.
Transatlantic rifts: US allies tell Trump NATO ‘is not an interventionist alliance’ as they decline to join war against Iran
Spanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles told parliament that the United States and Israel “cannot be the ones who decide what rules apply in the world.” She described the military campaign against Iran as falling outside international law.
Election jitters push presidency in Kenya to intensify citizen and voter registration led by senior state officials
GI-TOC investigation also blacklist frontier counties and towns in eastern and western Kenya, Kakuma Refugee Camp, Daadab Refugee Camp, Mombasa and UN offices in the capital, Nairobi, as the hubs where illegal national documents are given to foreigners at a fee – often hefty bribes.
30 years after she went missing, teen is located by Arizona cold case unit as grown woman with family
When she vanished in May 1994, the paper says, officials in Star Valley, Arizona, believed she may have been abducted. So, they classified her disappearance as happening under ‘endangered and suspicious circumstances’.
