Two years into her mandate, the UN special rapporteur on the right to a healthy environment, tells Geneva Solutions about the right’s emerging threats from wars, the latest wave of mining, and misinformation. Recognised by an overwhelming majority of countries at the United Nations General Assembly in 2022, the right to a healthy environment emerged...

  Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are reshaping how militaries around the world think about innovation, with autonomous drones, artificial intelligence, advanced sensors and battlefield software increasingly coming from startups rather than traditional defense contractors. Against that backdrop, Israeli venture capital fund Protego Ventures is positioning itself as a dedicated investor in defense...

Badar Shaikh Sun, March 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM UTC The S&P 500 Index, managed by S&P Global Dow Jones Indices, lists some of the largest companies on the planet, and is reportedly mulling changing its rules for entry into the index as Elon Musk-led commercial space flight giant SpaceX gears itself up for an...