A wall of the BND headquarters in Berlin. Germany’s secret agency has set conditions for recruitment, you have to come to the office, you have to keep the phone at home. Germany’s intelligence service has been facing difficulties in recruiting personnel since the Corona pandemic. Bruno Kahl, the head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service BND,…
She was speaking during the Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), in Doha, Qatar, where other participants stressed that graduation from LDC category must be sustainable and irreversible. Speakers argued that the appeal for continued and innovative financing and support measures “has fallen on deaf ears”, as the LDC5 held the last…
File photo Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that we all must admit that multilateralism is in crisis today, there is a need for a common position on global issues. Speaking at the G20 group of foreign ministers’ meeting in the Indian capital, New Delhi, Narendra Modi said that multilateral institutions have failed to…
The appeal came in his message to mark the first-ever International Day for the Prevention of Violent Extremism as and when Conducive to Terrorism, established in December by the UN General Assembly. Mr. Guterres described terrorism as an affront to humanity as it undermines the values that bind us together. Terrorism also threatens collective efforts…
“People’s sense of safety and security is at a low in almost every country, with six in seven worldwide, plagued by feelings of insecurity”, she stated. The world is facing the highest number of violent conflicts since the Second World War she said, with a quarter of humanity live in war zones – triggering grave…
According to the UN agency, between 2019 and 2021, the number of people who went hungry in the region increased by 30 per cent, to 56.5 million. This alarming food insecurity spike happened even though Latin America and the Caribbean is the world’s largest net food exporting region. It had also outperformed other regions in…
