Our Lebanese colleague Amal Khalil was a member of the 2016 Women In News Leadership Accelerator programme, the first in the MENA region. She was killed following an Israeli airstrike on 22 April. Multiple reports indicated shelling and direct fire prevented emergency teams from reaching her. Obstructing rescue operations constitutes a violation of international humanitarian…
Global Finance: Over the past four decades, how has TDB Group’s mandate and geographical footprint evolved, and what have been the most significant milestones in advancing trade, regional integration and sustainable development across member states? Admassu Tadesse: TDB Group is an MDB that has evolved into a group with different subsidiaries and strategic business units…
People on a motorbike watch a damaged car being towed by a tow truck, with a mural in the background depicting the US embargo on Cuba, on a street in Havana on April 28, 2026. | Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images “We may stop by Cuba after we’re finished with this,” President Donald Trump mused…
Streaming UIs are an easy concept on the surface, but are quite complicated in practice. There are many considerations that need to be accounted for, from layout shifts and motion preferences to proper markup and various states, that may not be instantly obvious. What happens if the stream is interrupted? Can users tab through the…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is considering scaling back the pass-through entity tax (PTET) credit to help close a growing budget gap, and business leaders warn the move could push companies and high earners out of the city. The short answer: reducing the PTET credit increases the effective tax burden on thousands of S…
By Mirko Petricevic Co-ordinator, Ink-stained Wretches Like the great cities of the world, Pride Month wasn’t built in a day. Growing up in 1970s Canada, we didn’t fly rainbow flags to show solidarity with LGBTQ+ communities. That was a time before decades of advocacy created a widespread – admittedly, not universal – culture of appreciation…
Two months into the US-Iran war, the fighting has hardened into a standoff, with no end in sight. Both countries claim to have the upper hand, but there is only one clear winner so far — and it isn’t either of them. “China’s watching this war very closely,” James Palmer, deputy editor of Foreign Policy…
The White House’s long-anticipated cannabis regulatory shake-up may ease rules on paper, but for banks, processors, and payment networks, little changes in practice. While the rescheduling of cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III has sparked hope for industry reform, the reclassification doesn’t change the ongoing banking hurdles for smaller cannabis businesses in the U.S….
Let’s welcome May with a new collection of desktop wallpapers! Following our monthly tradition, the wallpapers were created by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy! May has a way of sneaking in with longer days, softer light, and that first real hint of summer in the air. It’s the…
Assessments in modern LMS platforms go beyond multiple-choice questions. Product teams are building quiz builders, rubric creators, peer review workflows, and inline feedback tools that all depend on one shared component: the rich text editor. The editor’s capabilities directly determine what kinds of assessments your platform can offer. This article covers four patterns where EdTech…