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A Trump-shaped wrecking ball swings toward a faltering United Nations
In his second term has Trump has brought down the hammer,
cutting U.S. contributions to the U.N. and scaling back U.S. involvement.

The administration’s gutting of USAID was a blow to the international humanitarian system,
which has been propped up for years by U.S. involvement.
Cindy McCain, executive director of the U.N.’s World Food Program, said her agency is having to “take food from the…

A Trump-shaped wrecking ball swings toward a faltering United Nations
As world leaders gather for UNGA, the U.N. faces malaise fueled by crises of funding and relevance, 80 years after it emerged from the ashes of World War II.

UPRPRC: Unified Pipeline for Reproducing Parallel Resources -- Corpus from the United Nations
Qiuyang Lu, Fangjian Shen, Zhengkai Tang, Qiang Liu, Hexuan Cheng, Hui Liu, Wushao Wen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15789

UPRPRC: Unified Pipeline for Reproducing Parallel Resources -- Corpus from the United Nations
The quality and accessibility of multilingual datasets are crucial for advancing machine translation. However, previous corpora built from United Nations documents have suffered from issues such as opaque process, difficulty of reproduction, and limited scale. To address these challenges, we introduce a complete end-to-end solution, from data acquisition via web scraping to text alignment. The entire process is fully reproducible, with a minimalist single-machine example and optional distribute…

#sigh - but then, how can you stay in UNESCO without offending the racists, the Christian nationalists, and many of the billionaire donors who are such strong supporters of #47 and his ilk?

#sigh - but then, how can you stay in UNESCO without offending the racists, the Christian nationalists, and many of the billionaire donors who are such strong supporters of #47 and his ilk?

fao_trade: FAO Multiplex Trade Network
Multiplex network representing trade relationships between countries from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Countries are nodes and edge types represent import/export of varying products. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 214 nodes and 318346 edges.
Tags: Economic, Trade, Weighted, Multilayer

Traiterous scum.
https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/115237346204539624

Most United Nations workers killed on duty last year were killed by Israel in Palestinian territories, 181 out of 383.
"(...)383 aid workers were confirmed killed in the line of duty last year(...)"
"The [Gaza] Strip saw 181 humanitarian workers killed in 2024, with 60 more fatalities in Sudan. More widely, violence against aid workers increased in 21 countries in 2024 compared to the previous year, with State actors the most common perpetrators".

World Humanitarian Day 2025: Aid workers mull record toll of their own
With the news on Tuesday that a record 383 aid workers were confirmed killed in the line of duty last year, one veteran UN aid worker based in Gaza reaffirmed the resolve of humanitarians everywhere to save lives and relieve suffering, no matter how challenging the situation.

un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…

3h ago 13.33 CEST
Recognising Palestinian state 'key' for peace, says Luxembourg PM – Middle East crisis live
https://www.th…

Consider how far a
"use of force authorization" could be read to extend
when it starts with no limiting principle
-- no armed attack, no organized armed group fighting the United States
-- and is in fact explicitly authorizing widespread murder of mere suspects
https://

To Meet Pledges to Save Forests Spending Must Triple, U.N. Report Says - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/climate/deforestation-united-nations-report.html

PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals found in 98% of US waters tested https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/pfas-forever-chemicals-found-in-98-of-us-waters-tested/

PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals found in 98% of US waters tested
A recent study from the U.S.-based environmental nonprofit Waterkeeper Alliance has found “forever chemicals” contamination in 98% of the waterways it tested in the United States. The findings come at a time when representatives from the world are gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, for the United Nations plastics treaty negotiations to hammer out a plan to […]

The Trump administration is seeking congressional approval to sell Israel $6.4 billion in support equipment and weapons including attack helicopters and troop carriers
Potential sale includes 30 attack helicopters, 3,250 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles
United Nations convenes meeting on Gaza next week

The United States Withdraws from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/the-united-states-withdraws-from-the-united-nations-educational-scientific-and-cultural-organization-unesco
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p151#a250722p151

(Soundtrack of the Mighty Mouse theme, but somehow janky: “Here I come to save the day!”)
Thankfully, the United States has only ever had good experiences deploying troops to the Middle East.
🤦‍♂️
https://apnews.com/article/mideast-gaz

US sending about 200 troops to monitor Gaza ceasefire deal
The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and private-sector players. That's according to U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details that weren't authorized for release. They said Thursday that U.S. Central Command is going to establish a “civil-military coordination center” in Israel that will help facilitate the flow…

The Trump administration is seeking congressional approval to sell Israel $6.4 billion in support equipment and weapons including attack helicopters and troop carriers
Potential sale includes 30 attack helicopters, 3,250 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles
United Nations convenes meeting on Gaza next week

O rly? Given that Alberta & Ottawa united to shove the TMX pipeline down the throat of the BC & Vancouver governments and several indigenous nations. And given that Carney has been saying “build all the pipelines”. ?!?!?
If my cynicism is misplaced I heartily apologize and salute in the direction of Minister Hodgson.

Alberta will need B.C. government’s backing to build proposed pipeline: energy minister | CBC News
Canada’s energy minister says Alberta will need to get its neighbouring province on board in order to see its proposed pipeline project to the West Coast come to fruition.

Good Morning #Canada
There is a lot of news coverage about a USA president that lusts after a Nobel Prize like he attacks a family sized bucket of KFC. So let's celebrate that OTD in 1957, the first Canadian won the peace prize - Lester B. Pearson. Before he became our 14th Prime Minister, he spent the majority of his career as a diplomat. He was one of the founders of the United Nations and almost ended up as its first Secretary General. He was instrumental in ending the Suez Canal crisis by suggesting and helping to implement the first U.N. Peacekeeping Force.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1957/pearson/facts/

US, China argue over Ukraine at United Nations, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/26/us-china-argue-over-ukraine.html

And now the main conference hall of the United Nations complex in Nairobi, Kenya.

At the UN, the US rejected calls for collaborative efforts around AI governance, even as many leaders endorsed a need for urgent international collaboration (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/us-rejects-in…

U.S. rejects international AI oversight at U.N. General Assembly
The United States clashed with world leaders over artificial intelligence at the United Nations General Assembly this week.

"PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals found in 98% of US waters tested"
#US #USA #America #PFAS

PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals found in 98% of US waters tested
A recent study from the U.S.-based environmental nonprofit Waterkeeper Alliance has found “forever chemicals” contamination in 98% of the waterways it tested in the United States. The findings come at a time when representatives from the world are gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, for the United Nations plastics treaty negotiations to hammer out a plan to […]

🇺🇳 The #UN General Assembly has endorsed a roadmap toward Palestinian statehood without Hamas involvement.
The “New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution” (document A/80/L.1/Rev.1) was adopted by a recorded vote of 142 in favor to 10 against with 12 abstentions.
The text of the declaration demands that…

SEER: Sustainability Enhanced Engineering of Software Requirements
Mandira Roy, Novarun Deb, Nabendu Chaki, Agostino Cortesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08981 https://

SEER: Sustainability Enhanced Engineering of Software Requirements
The rapid expansion of software development has significant environmental, technical, social, and economic impacts. Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 compels developers to adopt sustainable practices. Existing methods mostly offer high-level guidelines, which are time-consuming to implement and rely on team adaptability. Moreover, they focus on design or implementation, while sustainability assessment should start at the requirements engineering phase. In this p…

Online Speech Bank: Haile Selassie -- Speech to the United Nations General Assembly 1963
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/haileselassieunitednations.htm

Trump fumbled with a teleprompter and there were technical difficulties with an escalator at the United Nations headquarter, so the rational reaction of Fox News was to say “What we need to do is either leave the U.N. or we need to bomb it.

un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…

Stop. Israel. Now.
Stop this genocide.
Free Palestine. https://mstdn.ca/@atomicker/115074168224412569

atomicker (@atomicker@mstdn.ca)
Attached: 1 image 'The United Nations says famine has been confirmed in the Gaza Strip. Officials say at least 132,000 children under the age of five are at risk of dying from acute malnutrition' https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250822_100/ #Gaza #Israel #Famine #WarCrimes #UnitedNations

The United Nations General Assembly will convene its September session in Geneva instead of New York,
following the United States’ refusal to grant entry visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and dozens of senior Palestinian officials
President Abbas is expected to address the Assembly in Geneva,
where he will call for international protection, recognition of Palestinian sovereignty,
and accountability for war crimes.
The Geneva session is expected to amp…

UN Assembly Moves to Geneva After U.S. Bars Palestinian Delegation | – IMEMC News
The United Nations General Assembly will convene its September session in Geneva instead of New York, following the United States’ refusal to grant entry visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abba…

Pirates of the Mediterranean.
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is being entirely ignored, it seems.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/israeli-military-vessels-pro-palestinian-flo…

@… manages to frame Trump's incoherent and embarrassing rambling in front of the UN General Assembly as a 'fiery speech'. Quite a feat in itself!

Sooooo.... UN Open Source Week 2026? What do you suppose the odds are of it not happening in NYC?
https://mastodon.social/@progressiveparker/115288358676220071

progressiveparker (@progressiveparker@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Petro Calls for Moving UN HQ After Trump Admin Revokes His Visa Over Protest Speech “What the US government is doing to me breaks all the norms of immunity on which the functioning of the United Nations and its General Assembly is based,” Petro said. Olivia Rosane Sep 27, 2025 https://www.commondreams.org/news/gustavo-petro-un-trump

Let's face it: Israel is the main source of instability in the Middle East | Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-united-nations/

Optimizing Health Coverage in Ethiopia: A Learning-augmented Approach and Persistent Proportionality Under an Online Budget
Davin Choo, Yohai Trabelsi, Fentabil Getnet, Samson Warkaye Lamma, Wondesen Nigatu, Kasahun Sime, Lisa Matay, Milind Tambe, St\'ephane Verguet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00135…

Optimizing Health Coverage in Ethiopia: A Learning-augmented Approach and Persistent Proportionality Under an Online Budget
As part of nationwide efforts aligned with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 3 on Universal Health Coverage, Ethiopia's Ministry of Health is strengthening health posts to expand access to essential healthcare services. However, only a fraction of this health system strengthening effort can be implemented each year due to limited budgets and other competing priorities, thus the need for an optimization framework to guide prioritization across the regions of Ethiopia. In this pape…

fao_trade: FAO Multiplex Trade Network
Multiplex network representing trade relationships between countries from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Countries are nodes and edge types represent import/export of varying products. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 214 nodes and 318346 edges.
Tags: Economic, Trade, Weighted, Multilayer

Wow https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/115260978393200438

"Nothing more illustrates the irrelevance of the UN in the 21st century than the issue of climate change.  It is the UN-sponsored International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that collects and presents the science on global warming and predictions for the future of the planet and humanity.  The IPCC delivers ever more stark warnings about the damage from global warming.... national governments ignore or reject even the most mild targets for global action."
Michael Roberts

The UN at 80: ignored and irrelevant
The 80th edition of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 80) opened yesterday in New York.  The theme this year is: ‘Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human r…

https://aje.io/7jylej

Fact check: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech at the UNGA
Netanyahu faces diplomatic isolation at the United Nations General Assembly.

PoPStat-COVID19: Leveraging Population Pyramids to Quantify Demographic Vulnerability to COVID-19
Buddhi Wijenayake, Athulya Ratnayake, Lelumi Edirisinghe, Uditha Wijeratne, Tharaka Fonseka, Roshan Godaliyadda, Samath Dharmaratne, Parakrama Ekanayake, Vijitha Herath, Insoha Alwis, Supun Manathunga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14213

PoPStat-COVID19: Leveraging Population Pyramids to Quantify Demographic Vulnerability to COVID-19
Understanding how population age structure shapes COVID-19 burden is crucial for pandemic preparedness, yet common summary measures such as median age ignore key distributional features like skewness, bimodality, and the proportional weight of high-risk cohorts. We extend the PoPStat framework, originally devised to link entire population pyramids with cause-specific mortality by applying it to COVID-19. Using 2019 United Nations World Population Prospects age-sex distributions together with cu…

The Trump Administration Is Promoting Its Anti-Trans Agenda Globally at the United Nations (Lisa Song/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-un-anti-trans-agenda
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p15#a250805p15

I've lost around 1 hour of my time listening to Trump's speech at United Nations. It was a far right speech (surprise) with threats against people (mostly migrants and refugees); threats against Iran, Venezuela and Brazil; critics to European Union countries as well as to United Kingdom; insults to random people and specially against the previous US administration; critics to the "climate change hoax"... And what's not.
Almost every single minute I heard one or mu…

Today the most evil and corrupt nation on Earth is hosting the most vile and murderous nation in a disgusting farce of civility - the United Nations.
No need for lengthy diatribes or accusations - the murderous evidence is plain to see, even from space.
Russia and America have teamed up to be the world's worst nightmare since predatory criminal capitalism.
Georgio reports truth from the trenches of democracy in Ukraine, and he shares the friend link to bypass the payw…

The Russian Federation Showcases Its Worst Butchery at the 80th UN Assembly
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

World leaders and UN push climate agenda forward despite Trump's attacks. Science demands action to cut greenhouse gas emissions and avoid breaching temperature limits. China leads in clean energy efforts. #climatechange #climatesolutions

https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/114929861839446170
Even the effing Nazis held the Olympic games and let all nations participate. MAGA is actually being worse. Impressive, in some sense.

And now the main conference hall of the United Nations complex in Nairobi, Kenya.

Dementia gets recognition by the U.N. : Goats and Soda : NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/09/25/g-s1-90468/dementia-alzheimers-united-nations

Pictorial and Documentary Guide for Research, Teaching, and Education through Astronomy, Physics, and Mathematics Pursued under the Umbrella of the United Nations (1974-2024)
Hans J. Haubold, Arak M. Mathai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17283

Pictorial and Documentary Guide for Research, Teaching, and Education through Astronomy, Physics, and Mathematics Pursued under the Umbrella of the United Nations (1974-2024)
This paper was prepared for Open-Access-only publication as a guide reporting on Education (all aspects of space science and technology), Teaching (remote sensing and GIS, satellite meteorology and global climate, satellite communication, space and atmospheric sciences, global navigation satellite systems), and Research (solar neutrino problem, formation of structure in the Universe) in astronomy (solar physics, cosmology), physics (nuclear physics, neutrino physics), and mathematics (fractiona…

A Data-Driven Framework for Digital Transformation in Smart Cities: Integrating AI, Dashboards, and IoT Readiness
\'Angel Lloret, Jes\'us Peral, Antonio Ferr\'andez, Mar\'ia Auladell, Rafael Mu\~noz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22721

A Data-Driven Framework for Digital Transformation in Smart Cities: Integrating AI, Dashboards, and IoT Readiness
Digital transformation (DT) has become a strategic priority for public administrations, particularly due to the need to deliver more efficient and citizen-centered services and respond to societal expectations, ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) criteria, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). In this context, the main objective of this study is to propose an innovative methodology to automatically evaluate the level of digital transformation (DT) in public sec…

The US Treasury sanctions three senior North Korean officials accused of tricking companies into hiring North Koreans using stolen identities as IT workers (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/us-sanctions-north-korean-officers-it-worker-scheme

US hits senior North Korean officials with sanctions, $3 million bounties
Kim Se Un, Jo Kyong Hun and Myong Chol Min are accused of helping North Korea evade U.S. and United Nations sanctions through an IT worker plot that involved tricking companies into hiring North Koreans using stolen identities.

Qatar, Saudi, Egypt join call for Hamas to disarm, give up Gaza rule - #France24
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250729-qatar…

Sustainability Evaluation Metrics for Recommender Systems
Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Viet-Man Le, Sebastian Lubos, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22520 …

Sustainability Evaluation Metrics for Recommender Systems
Sustainability-oriented evaluation metrics can help to assess the quality of recommender systems beyond wide-spread metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, and satisfaction. Following the United Nations`s sustainable development goals (SDGs), such metrics can help to analyse the impact of recommender systems on environmental, social, and economic aspects. We discuss different basic sustainability evaluation metrics for recommender systems and analyze their applications.

ProVeg: A Plant-Rich Diet Plays a Crucial Role on the Path to Greater Food Security https://vegconomist.com/society/proveg-plant-rich-diet-crucial-role-greater-food-security/

ProVeg: A Plant-Rich Diet Plays a Crucial Role on the Path to Greater Food Security - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today released its annual report, outlining global progress towards eliminating hunger and

un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…

Since Trump retook office, the United States has withheld as much as $1 billion in funding for the U.N.,
and the organization has moved to cut staff as a result.
Trump said the U.N. is “not even coming close to living up to that potential.”
During his remarks, Trump also urged world leaders Tuesday to
❌ reject policies to fight climate change, calling them a “scam,
and criticized European nations for continuing to buy oil from Russia amid its war with Ukrain…

Trump says United Nations is not living up to its potential as he addresses organization
Trump is addressing world leaders as he struggles to broker peace in Russia’s war with Ukraine and Israel’s war in Gaza.

"several Times articles have been considerably more straightforward – and honest – about the way Trump lies and spreads division."
...
The Times was quick out of the gate with a story correctly describing Trump’s unhinged address to the United Nations.
'Trump Uses U.N. Speech to Make False Claims and Lecture Representatives,'"

Is the New York Times finally getting real about Trump? | Press Watch
Recent articles have been surprisingly unflinching

Unit-Modified Weibull Distribution and Quantile Regression Model
Jo\~ao In\'acio Scrimini, Cleber Bisognin, Renata Rojas Guerra, F\'abio M. Bayer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17359

Unit-Modified Weibull Distribution and Quantile Regression Model
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations consist of 17 general objectives, subdivided into 169 targets to be achieved by 2030. Several SDG indices and indicators require continuous analysis and evaluation, and most of these indices are supported in the unit interval (0,1). To incorporate the flexibility of the modified Weibull (MW) distribution in doubly constrained datasets, the first objective of this work is to propose a new unit probability distribution based on the MW…

"More than 90% of new renewable energy capacity is now cheaper than fossil fuels, study shows"
#FossilFuels #Energy #Renewables

Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows
The global switch to renewable energy has passed a “positive tipping point”, according to two United Nations reports released on Tuesday.

(2) France Recognizes Palestinian Statehood at UN Summit: Live Updates - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/22/world/united-nations-assembly

The cache, made up of more than 300 SIM servers packed with over 100,000 SIM cards and clustered within 35 miles of the United Nations,
represents one of the most sweeping communications threats uncovered on U.S. soil.
Investigators warn the system could have blacked out cellular service in a city that relies on it not only for daily life but for emergency response and counterterrorism.
Coming as foreign leaders filled midtown hotels and motorcades clogged Manhattan,

Secret Service dismantles threat around UN capable of crippling NYC cell service
The U.S. Secret Service has dismantled a massive hidden telecom network in New York. Investigators say the system could have crippled cell towers and jammed 911 calls. The cache included over 300 SIM servers with more than 100,000 SIM cards. It was located within 35 miles of the United Nations. The network could have blacked out cellular service, especially during the United Nations General Assembly. Officials have not uncovered a direct plot against the assembly. Forensic analysis is ongoing, …

US hits senior North Korean officials with sanctions, $3 million bounties https://therecord.media/us-sanctions-north-korean-officers-it-worker-scheme

Over 200 prominent figures, including senior staffers at AI companies, call for international action to create "red lines" for AI development by the end of 2026 (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/nobel-laureate…

Nobel laureates and AI developers call for ‘red lines’ on AI
Experts are calling for international agreements as the United Nations meets, but they face an uphill battle turning words into action

A sign of the folly of Trump’s trade policy is that it has inspired no apparent envy.
The rest of the world is rejecting Trump’s protectionism.
Trump’s top trade adviser, Jamieson Greer,
recently wrote in a guest essay for Times Opinion that the Trump administration is forging a
“new global trading order.”
In reality, the United States is walking out of the system it created.
While other nations regret its departure, they are not inclined to follow in its …

Opinion | Trump’s Lonely Trade Crusade
A sign of the folly of Trump’s trade policy is that it has inspired no apparent envy among other nations.

Polarity Detection of Sustainable Detection Goals in News Text
Andrea Cadeddua, Alessandro Chessa, Vincenzo De Leo, Gianni Fenu, Francesco Osborne, Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Angelo Salatino, Luca Secchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19833

Polarity Detection of Sustainable Detection Goals in News Text
The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a globally recognised framework for addressing critical societal, environmental, and economic challenges. Recent developments in natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs) have facilitated the automatic classification of textual data according to their relevance to specific SDGs. Nevertheless, in many applications, it is equally important to determine the directionality of this relevance; that is, to assess…

un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…

Trump administration says US will leave UNESCO again | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/unesco-trump-withdraw-paris-united-nations-israel-129a4ffbce562e1aa497231e0bdd55a5

Poland shoots down drones over its territory amid Russian attack on Ukraine, prime minister says.
In the United States, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin said repeated violations of Nato airspace by Russian drones were a sign that “Vladimir Putin is testing our resolve to protect Poland and the Baltic nations.“
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/10/poland-shoots-down-drones-over-its-territory-amid-russian-attack-on-ukraine-says-military?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

UN chief puts faith in market forces to combat climate change, urging governments to accelerate renewables transition and avoid new fossil fuel investments. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

UN chief tells AP that market forces could be what ends fossil fuels
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says money, not just science, makes the case for curbing climate change. Guterres in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press highlights the falling costs of renewable energy like solar and wind. Guterres warns that investments in fossil fuels could become financial losses. He stresses the urgency of reducing emissions to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a goal set by the Paris Agreement. While some scientists believe that ta…

un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…

Amazon degradation increases by 163% in two years, while deforestation falls by 54% in the same period https://phys.org/news/2025-07-amazon-degradation-years-deforestation-falls.html

Amazon degradation increases by 163% in two years, while deforestation falls by 54% in the same period
The accelerated degradation of the Brazilian Amazon, primarily due to fires, has overshadowed the significant reduction in deforestation from 2022 to 2024. This "negative balance" in protecting the biome jeopardizes the international goals for combating the climate crisis that have been assumed by the country, which is hosting the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) this year.

fao_trade: FAO Multiplex Trade Network
Multiplex network representing trade relationships between countries from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Countries are nodes and edge types represent import/export of varying products. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 214 nodes and 318346 edges.
Tags: Economic, Trade, Weighted, Multilayer

While close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly,
the U.S. Secret Service quietly dismantled a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area
— a system investigators say could have crippled cell towers, jammed 911 calls and flooded networks with chaos at the very moment the city was most vulnerable.
The cache,
made up of more than 300 SIM servers packed with over 100,000 SIM cards and clustered within 35 miles …

Secret Service dismantles threat around UN capable of crippling NYC cell service
The U.S. Secret Service has dismantled a massive hidden telecom network in New York. Investigators say the system could have crippled cell towers and jammed 911 calls. The cache included over 300 SIM servers with more than 100,000 SIM cards. It was located within 35 miles of the United Nations. The network could have blacked out cellular service, especially during the United Nations General Assembly. Officials have not uncovered a direct plot against the assembly. Forensic analysis is ongoing, …

Two speeches
—one endorsing hate
and another warning foreign nations “you will fail”
—encapsulate a Presidential agenda that is like no other.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/dona…

Donald Trump Keeps Finding New Ways to Shock the World
Susan B. Glasser writes about Donald Trump’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly in September, 2025.

Trump: "I stand 100 per cent behind the United Nations."
Me: Well, it's obviously much easier to give someone a good kick in the backside when you're standing behind them...

un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…

fao_trade: FAO Multiplex Trade Network
Multiplex network representing trade relationships between countries from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Countries are nodes and edge types represent import/export of varying products. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 214 nodes and 318346 edges.
Tags: Economic, Trade, Weighted, Multilayer

Canada and Mexico are creating a new trade route,
the "Northern Corridor",
that bypasses the United States entirely.
This move is projected to cost the U.S. economy $125 billion
while adding billions to the economies of Canada and Mexico.
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Skipping the US: Mexico and Canada enter into trade bypass agreement
It seeks to safeguard the continuity of trade flows between the two nations without US border interference.