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Zambia reported more than 42,000 cases of gender-based violence in both 2023 and 2024. In Zambia’s drought-stricken fishing camps, the price for using a boat isn’t always paid in money.As more women turn to the fishing trade as a means for survival, many are being forced into exploitative “sex-for-fish” arrangements – a troubling trend exacerbated by the sudden withdrawal of foreign aid from the United States.A new report from the NGO ActionAid highlights the growing vulnerability of women to gender-based violence. It underscores how prolonged droughts have forced many Zambian women to seek alternative livelihoods, leaving them increasingly exposed to…

Jean-Claude Trichet, the former head of the European Central Bank, told POLITICO that having a foreigner helm a major central bank was “in no way an obvious decision,” but that Carney’s “remarkable” reputation in central banking helped the appointment go through. The man who appointed him then, the U.K.’s former conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, said Carney’s experience on the international stage will serve as an asset both to Canada and leaders in Western Europe as they confront the challenges posed by U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump has threatened to annex Canada and hit the country with massive…

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Thousands of Slovaks took to the streets to take part in regular protest pro-Russian policies of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico. Large crowds again took to the streets across Slovakia on Friday to demonstrate against populist Prime Minister Robert Fico and his pro-Russian policies.Regular protests erupted after Fico visited Moscow to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in late December, a rare visit to the Kremlin by a European Union leader since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.Protesters accuse him of aligning Slovakia with Russia and distancing from Europe and have been calling for his…

The European Union’s plans to beef up its defense are a potential threat to Russia, which might be forced to take countermeasures, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Friday, according to Russian media. “All this militarization is happening mainly against Russia. This, of course, could potentially be a topic of deep concern for us,” Peskov told journalists, Russian news outlet Interfax reported. He said the Kremlin may need to “take appropriate countermeasures to ensure our security.””We see that the European Union is now very actively discussing the topic of the militarization of the EU, the development of the defense segment in particular. These are…

But the incursion wasn’t designed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his generals with the idea of shifting the tide of the conflict: It was meant to serve both as a morale-booster for war-weary Ukrainians — in large part it did lift spirits — and as a bargaining chip in any subsequent peace talks.  Within days of the incursion, Ukrainian units drawn from four brigades quickly broadened a bridgehead in what amounted to the first invasion of Russia since World War II. And after a week, Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi claimed Ukraine had seized almost 1,000 square kilometers of territory…

“The concentration of wolf packs in some European regions has become a real danger especially for livestock,” von der Leyen said in a statement on Friday. “To manage critical wolf concentrations more actively, local authorities have long been asking for more flexibility,” she said, adding today’s proposal “will help [them] find more targeted solutions to protect both, biodiversity and our rural livelihoods.” With this proposal von der Leyen also fulfils one of the campaign promises made during the EU elections last year by her political family — the center-right European People’s Party, which proclaims itself the “farmer’s party.” The draft…

According to the prosecutors, the members of the group carried out surveillance of journalists, in particular Bulgarian investigative reporter Christo Grozev, who exposed the spies responsible for poisoning Sergei and Yulia Skripal. The ring also spied on Ukrainian soldiers training at a U.S. military base in Germany, in order to locate them when they returned to Ukraine. “I have never seen anything like this in my more than 20 years in counterterrorism. It was an extremely sophisticated operation,” the metropolitan police’s counterterrorism chief, Commander Dominic Murphy, told PA news agency. “Really sophisticated devices — the sort of thing you would…

Europe’s biggest, export-oriented economy is exposed to Trump’s tariffs, with German automakers in Mexico likely to see knock-on effects of a potential trade war. US President Donald Trump on Tuesday sparked a tariff war with the US’ three largest trading partners, slapping 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and doubling an already imposed import tariff on China to 20%.On Thursday, he backtracked and postponed the tariffs on multiple imports from Mexico and some from Canada, but emphasised he would impose additional tariffs at the start of April. The prospect of an international trade war sparked by Trump’s tariffs comes at…

“Because of this decision, the government will have to pay compensation — with the money of honest Italian citizens who pay taxes — to people who tried to enter Italy illegally, violating the law of the Italian state,” Meloni wrote in her post on X. The coast guard ship Diciotti rescued 190 migrants from an overcrowded boat off the Italian island of Lampedusa on Aug. 16, 2018, after they were denied entry to Malta, but as soon as they tried to land on the Italian coast, then-Interior Minister Matteo Salvini declared all of the country’s ports closed. Only 13 of…