AKTUN TUYUL CAVE SYSTEM, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s outgoing leader has quickly built a train system that runs around the country’s southern Yucatan Peninsula. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised that the more than $30 billion Maya Train project would connect tourist hubs like Cancun and Playa del Carmen with dense jungle and remote archaeological […]

Filippo Grandi said the number currently stands at 114 million. “We will update this figure next month. It will be higher,” he added. Mr Grandi recalled his last briefing to the ambassadors seven months ago, when he gave his views on various crises around the world. Non-compliance with international law He said the situation has

The experts marked recent incidents targeting the Persian-language news service Iran International, its journalists and staff, and its owner Volant Media UK Limited. Death threats and intimidation against staff escalated to the violent stabbing of journalist Pouria Zeraati outside his London home on March 29. Since 2017, Iran International has faced continued threats and intimidation

The World Food Program (WFP) has distributed more than 74,000 hot meals to more than 15,000 displaced people in the besieged capital Port-au-Prince, Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary General, told journalists at UN headquarters on Thursday, providing an update on the gang-ridden Caribbean nation. In addition, about 2,400 children received mental health and

Speaking at the conclusion of the Fourth International Conference on Small Island States (SIDS4), Amin Mohammed emphasized that, despite the increasing existential threats to SIDS, “we have reasons for hope and optimism”. More than two dozen world leaders and senior ministers from more than a hundred countries joined nearly four thousand other participants on the

Organized by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the annual forum is the place where people meet artificial intelligence. It is so popular that attendance is oversubscribed, with the queue to enter stretching hundreds of meters, past one of Geneva’s largest conference centres, and the internet bandwidth barely keeping up with the flood of digital information.

Martin Griffiths, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, highlighted the worsening humanitarian crisis, noting that 16.7 million people are now in need of humanitarian assistance – the highest number since the conflict began thirteen years ago. He stressed that the situation is deteriorating year after year, with particular emphasis on the ongoing protection crisis, as children

Mr Guterres started the day by laying a wreath at the Peacekeepers Memorial Site on the grounds of the UN Headquarters in New York in honor of the more than 4,300 ‘Blue Helmets’ who have lost their lives during the Organization’s almost 80-year history left. Later, at a ceremony in the Trusteeship Council Chamber, he

OpenAI on Thursday released its first-ever report on how its artificial intelligence tools are being used for covert influence operations, revealing that the company had disrupted disinformation campaigns from Russia, China, Israel and Iran. Malicious actors used the company’s generative AI models to create and post propaganda content on social media platforms, as well as

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Real politics in South Africa can begin after the final results of this week’s elections to be announced as the country faces the possibility not an outright winner. The first results showed on Thursday the ruling African National Congress at well below 50% of the national vote as counting