Canada will restore funding to UNRWA, the embattled UN agency in Gaza

TORONTO — Canada will restore funding to the United Nations relief agency for Palestinians, weeks after the agency, known as UNRWA, lost hundreds of millions of dollars in support following Israeli allegations against some of its staffers in Gaza. Canada was one of 16 countries that temporarily halted future payments. Ahmed Hussen, Minister of International … Read more

France’s new prime minister vows to defend farmers and restore authority in schools

PARIS — France’s new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal vowed Tuesday to boost employment, restore authority in the country’s schools and support workers including farmers who have been protesting for days over their eroding incomes. Three weeks after he was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron as France’s youngest-ever and first openly gay prime minister, Attal sought … Read more

Northern Ireland political party agrees to restore power sharing government

LONDON — Northern Ireland’s largest British unionist party has agreed to end a boycott that left the region’s people without a power-sharing administration for two years and rattled the foundations of the 25-year-old peace. The breakthrough could see the shuttered Belfast government restored within days. After a marathon late-night meeting, Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey … Read more

In Uganda, refugees’ need for wood ravaged the forest. Now, they work to restore it

NAKIVALE, Uganda — Enock Twagirayesu was seeking sanctuary when he and his family fled violence in Burundi, and they found it in Uganda, the small East African nation that has absorbed thousands of refugees from unsettled neighbors. Twagirayesu’s family has grown from two children when they arrived more than a decade ago to eight now, … Read more

New Trials Aim to Restore Hearing in Deaf Children—With Gene Therapy

While the Novartis trial was happening, Lustig and others were working on ways to restore hearing in genetic forms of hearing loss. In 2019, Lustig and his collaborators showed that OTOF gene therapy could be used to restore hearing in mice lacking the otoferlin protein. A separate group in Germany published similar findings in 2021, … Read more

Why have not China and the U.S. agreed to revive navy contacts?

TAIPEI, Taiwan — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has wrapped up a carefully watched go to to Beijing throughout which he and President Xi Jinping pledged to stabilize plunging U.S-China ties. However China refused the largest U.S. request: restoring military-to-military contacts. Blinken stated he raised the problem of navy communications “repeatedly” however was rebuffed … Read more

European leaders hope to revive stability in Tunisia, a serious supply of migration

TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia is internet hosting the leaders of Italy, the Netherlands and the European Union on Sunday for talks geared toward smoothing the best way for a global bailout and restoring stability to a rustic that has develop into a serious supply of migration to Europe. Tunisia’s more and more autocratic president is … Read more

EU on the crossroads of struggle for setting amid rising opposition to legislation to revive nature

BRUSSELS — The European Union has been on the forefront of the struggle in opposition to local weather change and the safety of nature for years. But it surely now finds itself beneath stress from inside to pause new environmental efforts amid fears they are going to harm the financial system. With the subsequent European … Read more