Azerbaijan hosts CIDC 2025 cyber defence festival in Baku
The “CIDC 2025 – Critical Infrastructure Defence Challenge” cybersecurity festival is being held on 9–10 October at the Baku Congress Centre, ...
In its flagship 2025 Global Outlook report, released at the WFP's Rome headquarters, the agency said that at least 343 million people across 74 countries are currently facing acute food insecurity, marking a 10% increase compared to last year.
Some 16.9 billion U.S. dollars will be needed to help people in the world who need the most urgent humanitarian food assistance in 2025, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said on Friday 23 November.
In its flagship 2025 Global Outlook report, released at the WFP's Rome headquarters, the agency said that at least 343 million people across 74 countries are currently facing acute food insecurity, marking a 10% increase compared to last year.
The country contexts in which WFP operates are becoming more complex, making reaching people in need more difficult and costly, says the report.
The shortfalls in funding raised in 2024 have already forced the WFP to scale back its activities this year, often leaving some of the most vulnerable behind, according to the report.
The report projects that in 2025, approximately 16.9 billion U.S. dollars will be needed to provide assistance to 123 million people in hunger.
WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain stressed that global humanitarian needs are rising, fueled by devastating conflicts, more frequent climate disasters, and extensive economic turmoil, demanding financial and diplomatic support from the international community.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
The “CIDC 2025 – Critical Infrastructure Defence Challenge” cybersecurity festival is being held on 9–10 October at the Baku Congress Centre, jointly organised by the State Service for Special Communication and Information Security of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Israel and Hamas said they had agreed to a long-awaited ceasefire and hostage deal, the first phase of U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to end a war in Gaza that has killed more than 67,000 people and reshaped the Middle East.
Russia’s central bank has ruled the state violated minority shareholders’ rights in seized assets, signaling rare pushback against nationalisation.
A newly elected German mayor survived multiple stab wounds in a shocking family attack.
Cristiano Ronaldo has become football’s first billionaire player, according to Bloomberg, which tracks the world’s richest individuals.
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