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  1. Court Finds That Arizona Voter Registration Provisions Violate Federal Law The U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona struck down an Arizona requirement that individuals seeking to register to vote must list their birthplace as a prerequisite to registering to vote. Read
  2. Large U.S. Military Contracts Awarded on March 04, 2024 The U.S. Defense Department announced new major contracts awarded on March 04, 2024 Read
  3. World Bank Group Prepares Major Overhaul to Guarantee Business The World Bank Group recently announced a major overhaul to its guarantee business that will deliver simplicity, improved access, and faster execution through a new, convenient marketplace.  The new reforms are critical to achieving the goal of tripling annual guarantee issuance to $20 billion by 2030. Read
  4. Asian Development Bank Sponsors April Asia-Pacific Food Security Forum The Manila, Philippines -based multilateral bank ADB is hosting a special forum next month focusing on addressing the challenges of food security in the Asia-Pacific Region. Read
  5. UK Strategic Institute Labels Russia-China 5G Collaboration a Serious Military Threat A telecom technology partnership between China and Russia is already reaping Moscow benefits in Ukraine and might lead to advantages for China in a future Taiwan invasion. Read
  6. Irish Senate Passes Broad Measures Sanctioning Israel for Its Role in Gaza Genocide Last week the Seanad Éireann, the Irish legislature’s upper house, voted unanimously in favor of a bill designed to put pressure on Israel to bring an immediate halt to the killings in Gaza. Read
  7. Australian Government and Rugby Australia Forum $14M Australian-Pacific Rugby Union Partnership The Australian Government and Rugby Australia will partner to deliver a four-year $14.2 million investment to support high-performance Rugby Union across the Pacific through the Australian-Pacific Rugby Union Partnership (APRUP), bringing the region closer together through a shared love of rugby. Read
  8. New Global Rules to Simplify Trade in Services Enter into Force in the World Trade Organization Trade in services just got a boost with the entry into force of new World Trade Organization (WTO) rules facilitating and simplifying trade in services. The new rules apply to a large and diverse group of WTO Members, including developed, developing and least developed countries - representing 92% of world trade in services. Read
  9. HHS Announces a Multi-Pronged Effort to Strengthen Direct Care Workforce The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Administration for Community Living (ACL), announced several new initiatives and resources from ACL’s Direct Care Workforce (DCW) Strategies Center to address the dire shortage of professionals who provide the services many older adults and people with disabilities need to live in the community. Read
  10. Africa CDC And UNICEF Expand Partnership To Strengthen Health Systems And Immunization The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and UNICEF announced an extended partnership dedicated to strengthening primary healthcare, supply chain management, pooled procurement and local manufacturing, and emergency response. Read
  11. Sleep Apnea Symptoms Linked To Memory And Thinking Problems People who experience sleep apnea may be more likely to also have memory or thinking problems, according to a preliminary study released March 3, 2024, that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 76th Annual Meeting taking place April 13–18, 2024, in person in Denver and online. Read
  12. Commodities Trading Company Will Pay Over $661M to Resolve Foreign Bribery Case Gunvor S.A. (Gunvor), an international commodities trading company based in Switzerland, has pleaded guilty and will pay over $661 million to resolve an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Read
  13. Large U.S. Military Contracts Awarded on March 01, 2024 The U.S. Defense Department announced new major contracts awarded on March 01, 2024 Read
  14. India’s Assam State to Get More Roads & Bridges India's government has long denied Assam decent roads and bridges but with help from the World Bank, that may soon change. Read
  15. Nicaragua Sues Germany in ICJ for Supporting Genocide Germany has been a devout supporter of Israel's genocide of Palestinians, knowing that it is illegal and immoral. Nicaragua has had the integrity and courage to sue them. Read
  16. Reclamation awards construction contract for Arkansas Valley Conduit treatment facilities The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a contract for the construction of water treatment and connection facilities for the Arkansas Valley Conduit Project to Thalle Construction for $28,710,676. Read
  17. DOE Finalizes Efficiency Standards For Residential Clothes Washers And Clothes Dryers The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced two Congressionally-mandated energy-efficiency actions that will save American households $2.2 billion per year on their utility bills, while significantly cutting energy waste and harmful carbon pollution. Read
  18. IFC Launches Flagship Gender Program to Boost Women's Employment in India To help recruit, retain, and promote more women across India's private sector, IFC on February 29 launched the India Gender Collaborative. The 12-month flagship gender program aims to catalyze economic participation of women in the country while fostering gender parity and inclusion. Read
  19. EIB Group And Hypo Vorarlberg Join Forces To Support Climate Investment The EIB Group, consisting of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Investment Fund (EIF), has provided Hypo Vorarlberg with a €61 million guarantee on the mezzanine tranche of a synthetic securitization transaction on a €360 million portfolio of loans to small businesses and mid-caps mainly originated in Austria. Read
  20. CFPB Issues Guidance to Rein in Rigged Comparison-Shopping Results for Credit Cards and Other Financial Products The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on February 29 issued a circular to law enforcement agencies and regulators explaining how companies operating comparison-shopping tools can break the law when they steer consumers to certain products or lenders because of kickbacks. Read
  21. NASA Selects ACMI as Second Approved Exploration Park Facility NASA and the American Center for Manufacturing and Innovation (ACMI) signed an agreement Thursday, Feb. 29 to lease underutilized land in a 240-acre Exploration Park at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. ACMI will enable the development of facilities to enable commercial and defense space manufacturing. Read
  22. Loneliness Increases The Risk Of Health Deterioration In Older Adults The loneliness often experienced by older people in our society has a negative effect on their physical health, according to researchers from Amsterdam UMC and the University of Glasgow. Read
  23. Ex-Energy Trader for Vitol Convicted of Foreign Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme Javier Aguilar, a former trader at Vitol, Inc. (Vitol), was convicted recently by a federal jury in Brooklyn on all counts of a superseding indictment relating to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by paying bribes to officials of Petroecuador, the Ecuadorian state-owned oil company. Read
  24. Zionist Forces Kill 112 and Wound Hundreds in Aid Convoy Attack In an act of grotesque evil, Israeli military fired on the crowds as starving Palestinian civilians rushed in to retrieve food and water from aid trucks near Gaza City yesterday, then blamed the victims. Read
  25. Large U.S. Military Contracts Awarded on February 29, 2024 The U.S. Defense Department announced new major contracts awarded on February 29, 2024 Read