Germany announced on Wednesday that it would resume funding to the main U.N. aid agency for Palestinians, UNRWA. The move comes as the European country, UNRWA’s second largest donor, previously suspended financial assistance to the organization amid reports by Israeli intelligence officials that some of the participants in the October 7 rampage in southern Israel
After a conservative majority of the Arizona Supreme Court ruled April 9 to uphold an antiquated near-total abortion ban from 1864, the shockwaves on both sides of the political aisle were immediate and obvious. Democrats decried the court’s decision, vowing to redouble efforts to pass an amendment to the state’s constitution. If passed, the Arizona Abortion Access Act would effectively negate the court’s ruling and guarantee abortion access to all Arizona citizens. Republicans faced a far...
Berlin restores ties with UN agency after review says Israel has provided no evidence of terrorist linksMiddle East crisis – live updatesGermany has said it will restore cooperation and funding to Unrwa operations in the Gaza Strip after an independent review said Israel had not provided evidence to back up claims that hundreds of employees of the UN agency for Palestinians were members of terrorist organisations.Berlin’s foreign and development ministries said in a joint statement on Wednesday...
Tory MPs urging government not to restore funding despite UN’s roadmap, published on Monday, to make agency more transparentA plan due to be published today to improve the accountability and transparency of Unrwa, the UN relief works agency for Palestinians, is not expected to lead to a snap British decision to restore funding to the agency.Britain joined 18 other nations in suspending funding for the agency after Israel claimed that 12 of the 30,000 Unrwa staff had participated in the attack on...
Remarks before the US Senate. M. President, The Senate will soon vote on a $95 billion supplemental spending package. $95 billion. That’s a lot of money – especially at a time when many Americans are unable to afford their rent or pay their mortgages, pay their bills, afford healthcare, are struggling with student debt or More
On the campaign trail, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D.) pitches himself as a populist who shares Ohio's blue-collar values. But inside a "Women for Sherrod Brown" fundraiser in March, Brown's wife and a left-wing writer cast a more progressive image, slamming "heteronormal men" and saying Donald Trump will become a dictator if reelected.
The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management officially recommended against building the Ambler Road, effectively killing the project.
During a deputation to Council members, at a Business and Culture Committee meeting on Tuesday, April 16, Chair, Michelle Simpson, said Visit Derry “welcomed back international travel after the devastating impact of Covid on our sector”, but warned it is continuing to struggle due factors such as the Cost of Living crisis. Ms Simpson said tourism recovery had been “relatively good”, with global tourism back to 88 percent of pre-pandemic figures. “We hope by the end of 2024, we will have fully...
The Innovate UK Fund has announced six winners to be awarded grant funding from the government totalling £1 million to jumpstart ‘AI in the music industry.’ Competition assessors agreed that AudioStrip would benefit and strengthen the UK music industry by saying “this is well planned, resourced, and researched innovation that can impact the business, market, […]
A16z announced that it has raised a new $600 million games fund as part of a $7.2 billion raise for the venture capital company.
Startup funding in the penultimate week of April 2024 declined by nearly 27.9% from the same period a year ago, totalling $74 million across 14 deals. However, deal density in the latest week improved to $5.3 million per deal, as per Tracxn data. From April 6 to April 12, 2023, startups had raised about $2.4 million per deal. Funding was down sequentially as well, from $103 million across 15 funding rounds in the previous week. Of the total corpus raised this week, fundraises of...