Humanitarian work in Afghanistan and Yemen now classified as climate finance, FoI request reveals, as £11.6bn pledge slipsThe UK government has been accused of double counting £500m of overseas aid as climate finance in an attempt to meet its commitments under the Paris agreement .Money for humanitarian work in Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia is now being classified as climate finance, according to documents released under a freedom of information request by the website Carbon Brief. Continue...
UPDATE: Prince Harry cuts ties with UK as he formally makes USA home (Third column, 6th story, link)
Meta has said it will unveil a new product later in the year which will aim its Quest devices at education. It should make Quest devices easier for teachers to use in their classrooms.
Reports said these limits “serve as a guideline in qualifying purchasers and renters for affordable units as required under various city programs.”
Thousands marched in Buenos Aires on Tuesday calling on President Milei to preserve university funding.
The government wants us to believe that we have nothing to fear from its mass spying program because they’re only looking to get the “bad” guys who are overseas. Don’t believe it.
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...
Down With Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes A Mockery Of The Constitution Authored by John and Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference The Thought Police would get him just the same the arrests invariably happened at night In the vast majority of cases there was no trial, no report of the arrest. People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was...
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The UK has introduced new sanctions aimed against Chinese interference, but their bark is far worse than their bite, writes Robert Dalling.
Cornwall Council is looking into the planning issues, but the project's supporters claim they are merely attempting to assist the local residents and wildlife.
US President Joe Biden says Ukraine will receive more arms and equipment within the week after the US Senate approved a $60bn aid package. But what difference will this make to the people there? Also on the programme: we hear the conflicting claims about the mass graves found in Gaza; and the ‘lost’ painting of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt that has been sold at auction in Vienna.(Photo: US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the National Security Supplemental. Credit:...