Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Besides the spectacle of a UN secretary-general obsequiously paying respect to a Russian president indicted for abducting children, last month’s Brics summit in Kazan featured the more technical, but geopolitically more consequential, push “to make … Read more
TOYAH — After a restless night of sleep, Elida Machuca texted her neighbor, searching for answers. The air around her house in this West Texas town stunk of rotten eggs. “Last night, about 1 a.m., it was so bad we couldn’t sleep,” she said. “We were feeling nauseous.” “Should we be worried?” Her neighbor, Brandie … Read more
Eric Bovee is an MS student in the School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences at the University of Florida. Eric was awarded the Florida Sea Grant Guy Harvey Fellowship in 2024. Bovee holding a Striped Bass Morone saxatilis while onboard the R/V Henry Bigelow. Photo by Eric Bovee. We all have our inner current … Read more
From 27 to 29 June, the Everlasting Peoples’ Tribunal on West Papua was in session. Convened at Queen Mary College of London, the tribunal spent three days listening to testimonies to evaluate allegations of environmental destruction and repression in West Papua by the hands of the Indonesian Authorities and numerous company actors. A incessantly faltering … Read more
The US on Wednesday introduced new sanctions on Israeli settlers within the West Financial institution over violence towards Palestinians, urging its ally Israel to convey better accountability. The sanctions have been introduced on the identical day that Israel launched a wide-scale assault within the West Financial institution that it mentioned killed 9 Palestinian fighters, regardless … Read more
