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  1. AfDB and Liberia Electricity Regulatory Commission Launch Regulatory Database Management System The African Development Bank and the Liberia Electricity Regulatory Commission (LERC) have jointly launched a cutting-edge Regulatory Information Database Management System (RDBMS) to address regulatory bottlenecks through digitalization. Read
  2. UNICEF and The European Union are Supporting the Government of Tajikistan on Social Protection The Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Tajikistan, in collaboration with UNICEF and the European Union are supporting the reintegration of children and their mothers who have returned from conflict zones, as it was discussed during the roundtable organized by the Ministry of health and Social Protection of the Population. Read
  3. Former U.S. Ambassador and National Security Council Official Admits to Secretly Acting as Agent of the Cuban Government Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, of Miami, a former U.S. Department of State employee who served on the National Security Council from 1994 to 1995 and as U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia from 2000 to 2002, pleaded guilty on April 12 to secretly acting for decades as an agent of the government of the Republic of Cuba. Immediately thereafter, a federal judge sentenced Rocha to the statutory maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. Read
  4. Antibiotic-resistant “Superbugs” Are Being Passed From Cats And Dogs To Their Owners, Study Says Pet dogs and cats play an important role in the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, new research be presented at the ESCMID Global Congress (formerly ECCMID) in Barcelona, Spain (27-30 April) suggests. Read
  5. Large U.S. Military Contracts Awarded on April 12, 2024 The U.S. Defense Department announced new major contracts awarded on April 12, 2024 Read
  6. Iran & Hezbollah Launch Simultaneous But Restrained Attacks on Israel For the first time, Iran has struck Israel directly with drones and missiles, but most of them were intercepted and have caused little damage. Read
  7. House Approves Reauthorization of Warrantless Surveillance Act Provisions The House of Representatives yesterday reapproved the still unconstitutional section 702 of the FISA Act yesterday, one week before it would have expired. Read
  8. UK and Ukraine Sign New Defense Pact The UK and Ukraine sign a new defence agreement to encourage cooperation on defence and industrial issues. Read
  9. INCITE Program Seeks Proposals For 2025 To Advance Science And Engineering at U.S. leadership computing facilities The INCITE program aims to accelerate scientific discoveries and technological innovations by awarding researchers with substantial allocations of supercomputer time and supporting resources at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). Read
  10. CDC Data Modernization Efforts Accelerate Nation’s Ability to Detect and Rapidly Respond to Health Threats Thehe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on April 11 launched its updated Public Health Data Strategy for 2024-2025 and a companion 2023 Lookback Report. Read
  11. Alcohol Addiction Treatment Firm will be Banned from Disclosing Health Data for Advertising to Settle FTC Charges The Federal Trade Commission has taken action against an alcohol addiction treatment service for allegedly disclosing users’ personal health data to third-party advertising platforms, including Meta and Google, for advertising without consumer consent, after promising to keep such information confidential. Read
  12. WHO Sounds Alarm On Viral Hepatitis Infections Claiming 3500 Lives Each Day According to the World Health Organization (WHO) 2024 Global Hepatitis Report, the number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis is increasing. The disease is the second leading infectious cause of death globally -- with 1.3 million deaths per year, the same as tuberculosis, a top infectious killer. Read
  13. CBP Announces Next Phase in Fight Targeting Criminals Funneling Fentanyl into American Communities U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently announced that it will lead an expanded, multi-agency effort to target the transnational criminals funneling fentanyl from Mexico into American communities. Operation Plaza Spike targets the cartels that facilitate the flow of deadly fentanyl, as well as its analogs and precursors and tools to make the drugs. Read
  14. The United States, The Philippines, and Japan Launch 'Partnership For Global Infrastructure And Investment Luzon Economic Corridor' During the trilateral leaders’ summit, the leaders of the United States, the Philippines, and Japan announced the intent to develop the Luzon Economic Corridor as the latest economic corridor of the G7 Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGI) and the first in the Indo-Pacific region. Read
  15. NASA, Japan Advance Space Cooperation, Sign Agreement for Lunar Rover NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Japan’s Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Masahito Moriyama have signed an agreement to advance sustainable human exploration of the Moon. Read
  16. Justice Department Publishes New Rule To Update Definition Of “Engaged In The Business” As A Firearms Dealer The Justice Department on April 10 announced it has submitted to the Federal Register the “Engaged in the Business” Final Rule, which makes clear the circumstances in which a person is “engaged in the business” of dealing in firearms and thus required to obtain a federal firearms license, in order to increase compliance with the federal background check requirement for firearm sales by federal firearms licensees. Read
  17. Large U.S. Military Contracts Awarded on April 11, 2024 The U.S. Defense Department announced new major contracts awarded on April 11, 2024 Read
  18. FAA Proposes $2.9 Million in Penalties Against Asia Pacific Airlines The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes five civil penalties totaling $2.9 million against Asia Pacific Airlines of Honolulu, Hawaii. Read
  19. Zionist Monsters Murder Seven of Hamas Leader’s Family Members Israelis continue to demonstrate their inhumanity when they launched an aerial assault on a Gaza refugee encampment yesterday which killed three sons and four grandchildren of the head of Hamas’ political organization. Read
  20. AI-Assisted Breast-Cancer Screening May Reduce Unnecessary Testing Using AI to help doctors read mammograms reduces follow-up testing without missing cancer cases, simulation shows. Read
  21. Mapping: England Could Produce 13 Times More Clean Energy Researchers identify new onshore wind and solar sites that utilise less than 3% of land Read
  22. Treasury And IRS Announce New Regulations On Corporate Stock Repurchase Excise Tax The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service on April 9 issued proposed regulations that would provide taxpayers and tax professionals with new guidance concerning the one percent excise tax owed on corporate stock repurchases. Read
  23. Nearly 2 in 3 Americans Worry More about Running Out of Money than Death Nearly two in three Americans say they worry more about running out of money than death with concerns about inflation, Social Security and taxes contributing to the fear, according to the 2024 Annual Retirement Study from Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life). Read
  24. Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling At The Edge Of Milky Way’s Central Black Hole A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has uncovered strong and organised magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Read
  25. More Than Half A Million Global Stroke Deaths May Be Tied To Climate Change A changing climate may be linked to growing death and disability from stroke in regions around the world, according to a study published in the April 10, 2024, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Read