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Discover the hottest wedding venue around the world
Couples are reframing the destination wedding: however lavish the setting, priorities have shifted toward smaller, service-forward gatherings, multiday events and culture-first venues. Micro-weddings and multi-day celebrations are continuing to...

Lost in Space: The Limits of Geolocation in a Satellite-Connected World
“Where are you?” is not an easy question to answer on the Internet. The telephone system’s address plan embedded a certain amount of physical location information in the fixed-line network, and a full E.164 telephone number indicated your location...

UN General Assembly: Africa asserts sovereignty and spirit of new form of international governance
The 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly concluded this past Monday, Sept. 29 at the UN Headquarters in New York City. This year’s theme for the UNGA80 was “Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human...

Students revive group spotlighting African politics, culture
International affairs students revived an organization this semester focused on African politics and U.S.-Africa relations after a year of inaction, aiming to raise community awareness of Africa’s role in global affairs on campus. Operation...

The great silence surrounding marital rape in Senegal
Women demonstrate to demand the criminalisation of rape. Screenshot from the WF1tv – Women First YouTube channel By Bowel Diop Gender-based violence, including marital rape, occurs worldwide, and often, the perpetrators are the victim's husband....

China’s outreach office marks a decade of people-centered lawmaking
In Beijing's Chaoyang district, a modest quadrilateral courtyard tucked inside one of the city's busiest communities is lively. It is from here that residents, lawyers, and local deputies review draft provisions of a new law, before their comments...

US Sends About 100 to Iran in Surprise Nighttime Flight
9/30/2025 Iran (International Christian Concern) — A few minutes after midnight on Tuesday, September 30, the New York Times published a breaking news story about a flight in the air on its way from Louisiana to Tehran, the capital city of Iran....

Workshop for Horn of Africa Think-Tank Scholars concludes successfully in Chengdu, China
By our staff reporter Chengdu, China The 2025 Training Workshop for Think-Tank Scholars from the Horn of Africa has successfully concluded, marking a significant milestone in fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange. Held at Sichuan Normal...

Business News | Leadership Excellence Summit 2025 Concludes at Bharat Mandapam as Global Leaders and Diplomats Reimagine Leadership for the Future
PNN New Delhi [India], September 27: The World Association for Small and Medium Enterprises (WASME), holding Consultative and Observer Status with the United Nations, in partnership with Heylin Spark, successfully concluded the Leadership...

Recovering Africa’s Forgotten Kingdoms
It becomes clear fairly quickly that we don’t know Black history in America, but the truth runs deeper: we also don’t know African history. And both absences stem from the same reason—centuries of erasure. For generations, Africa’s past was...

British archbishop calls out UN over silence on Christian persecution
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States and International Organisations, has called on the international community to do more to end the persecution of Christians globally. Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New...

To be presented in November: Housing, education, and work at the core of national plan against racism
Luxembourg's forthcoming national action plan against racism, to be presented in November, will address discrimination on the housing market, while MPs also pressed the government over poor conditions in reception centres and called for concrete...

Development of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 on the African continent
Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 International geopolitical expansion Saudi Arabia's investments in Africa Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 initiative has been underway for a decade with the aim of diversifying the Saudi economy so...

Keir Starmer’s migrant deal EXPOSED as GB News reveals ‘7,000-in, seven-out’ surge in Channel crossings
More than 7,000 asylum seekers have entered the UK and just seven have been returned to France since Sir Keir Starmer's "one-in, one-out" deal has been in force, GB News can reveal. The proposal, signed into law on August 3, ensures illegal...

Million-Year-Old Skull Pushes Back Homo Sapiens' Origins By 400,000 Years
Until recently, it was thought that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals split off from their last common ancestor around 600,000 years ago, but a prehistoric skull from China has just shattered that narrative. Dated to a million years ago, the cranium...

Diplomatic Snub of 77 Countries at the United Nations: Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu Faces Mass Boycott Over Gaza Onslaught
In a moment that encapsulated the deepening fissures in global diplomacy, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stepped up to the podium at the United Nations General Assembly on September 26, 2025, only to address a chamber that had been...

Greece to Integrate Asylum Recipients into Labor Market Amid Worker Shortages
Greece drafts a plan to direct asylum recipients to the labor market. Photo of migrants arriving on Lesvos. Credit: Cgia Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Greece is drafting a plan to direct asylum recipients to the labor market due to worker...

Sudan PM demands UN action from ‘existential dangers’
Sudan’s Prime Minister Kamil El Tayeb Idris addressed the 80th session of the UN General Assembly yesterday to warn that his country faces “existential dangers” from war, genocide, and foreign mercenaries. “Sudan has bled,” he declared. “Our...

How effective is UK’s one-in-one-out migrant deal with France so far?
Just four men who crossed the English Channel in small boats from France to the United Kingdom have been deported back to France under a migrant-swap scheme signed between the two countries in July. The deportations, which have taken place over...

Indian World Food Congress a strategic platform for global food partnerships: Kuwaiti envoy
Ambassador of the State of Kuwait to India, Mishal Al-Shamali NEW DELHI, Sept 27: Kuwait’s Ambassador to India, Mishal Al-Shamali, said Friday that the World Food Congress (WFC), currently being held in India with Kuwaiti participation, serves as...