This study examines how the European Commission and the European Investment Bank measure the impact of their external action programmes and investments on decent and sustainable job creation in Sub Saharan Africa, with particular attention to the Global Gateway. This paper summarises current employment impact assessment practices, recognising their capacity to capture high level direct and indirect employment effects while also identifying clear limitations, especially in harmonising job quality metrics. The paper identifies solid foundations alongside clear shortcomings in the EC and EIB appraisal, monitoring and evaluation systems for measuring decent jobs impacts. It finds that shifts under the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument – Global Europe have underscored the importance of adopting robust job creation metrics and for embedding these systematically across EU external action. Finally, the paper showcases good practices in EU programmes and partner multilateral development banks and development finance institutions that have strengthened clarity and commitment to monitoring decent job impacts through country jobs diagnostics, adopting employment markers, reinforcing environmental, social and governance due diligence frameworks and policies promoting responsible business conduct. Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

The US president said the Board of Peace will operate in cooperation with the UN and many countries

Among those objects are a knife, made from a sled, a box from expensive Italian wine, a snowshoe for ponies, and mysterious objects the purpose of which is still to be identified

Alexander Stepanov described it as «frigate diplomacy»

The US president said the details are being negotiated now

Leaders and representatives of 19 countries signed the charter, alongside US President Donald Trump

The 5,000-year-old mystery of Stonehenge may have finally been solved with the help of a few tiny grains of sand.

Andrew Gwynne, a former health minister who had the Labour whip removed in February last year, is expected to make an announcement on his future soon.

London's property market is in a slump. House prices in the capital have fallen 5% since their peak in 2022, according to the Land Registry, but that headline figure masks a deeper problem.

Peter Sullivan, 68, was wrongly jailed for 38 years for the killing of bride-to-be Diane Sindall in Merseyside on the night of August 1, 1986.

The winger has spoken openly about his financial affairs, revealing last year has been paying back HM Revenue and Customs for eight years. Barnes has stated that he has repaid around £2.2m since 2017.

It's been two years since the former ferry docked in Charlottetown Harbour while en route to India to be scrapped. During refuelling, diesel spilled into the harbour — and access to information documents obtained by CBC News show the amount could have been up to 1,530 litres. The vessel received three violations, and its owner was fined.

Unions representing Saskatchewan health-care workers say their members are worried about violence and weapons in hospitals — and while metal detectors are a start, other measures are needed to address the issue.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is huddling with his cabinet in Quebec City to chart out the government's plan for the new year after using a closely watched moment on the world stage earlier this week to condemn the U.S. administration and signal a pivot for Canada.

A 30-year-old man has been charged in court for allegedly trafficking almost 2,000 etomidate e-vaporiser pods into Singapore, said the Health Sciences Authority (HSA).In a press release on Thursday (Jan 22), HSA said that the operation yielded the largest haul of etomidate e-vaporiser pods — otherwise known as Kpods — since etomidate was classified as a Class C controlled drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act (MDA) on Sep 1 last year.The agency said that Muhamad Khairuddin Bin Abdullah had attempted to smuggle the Kpods into Singapore at Woodlands Checkpoint on the night of Jan 20.Muhamad was travelling with his 63-year-old mother and four-month-old niece in a rental car, and had hidden the 1,989 e-vaporiser pods in the car boot.Upon discovery of the hidden e-vaporiser pods, Muhamad was detained by the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA). HSA was also alerted, and subsequently conducted a raid at his residence, yielding three regular e-vaporiser pods. 

Singapore Airlines (SIA) has come out tops among its peers in Fortune's world's most admired companies list for 2026 released on Wednesday (Jan 21).It is ahead of Delta Air Lines, Air France-KLM Group, United Airlines and Lufthansa Group, and outshone the wider aviation sector including Airbus and Lockheed Martin. SIA and Toyota are the only Asian companies in the top 25 —the automobile company is ranked 23rd overall, while SIA is ranked 24th — bettering its 28th spot in 2025.It is also the only Singapore-based company to feature in the top 50.According to consultancy firm Korn Ferry, which partnered Fortune, nine attributes were used to evaluate companies when determining the industry rankings: ability to attract and retain talented people; quality of management; social responsibility to the community and the environment; innovativeness; quality of products or services; wise use of corporate assets; financial soundness; long-term investment value; and, effectiveness in doing business globally. In an online statement, SIA said that it is honoured to be included in the list and for topping the industry.

A day after the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said it is resetting the Expected Time of Arrival (ETA) system for buses, the transport regulator announced that it has identified the root cause of the issues affecting the system.In an update issued on Thursday (Jan 22) evening, the authority said that its engineers and contractors discovered a memory cache build-up in the on-board systems of some buses.«This disrupted data transmissions between on-board bus systems and the central ETA processing servers, leading to missing bus arrival timings.» About 50 per cent of the bus fleet across all bus operators have been affected.Restoration process to take about four days: LTAAs part of the restoration process, technicians will need to reconfigure the ETA system and clear the cache on all the affected buses.Given that there were 5,841 public buses as at the end of 2024, technicians will have to physically service more than 2,900 on-board units.LTA said that this process is expected to take about four days to complete.

[GroundUp] Education department rejects claims that immigrants are given preference

[Scrolla] 14 learners have now died after a scholar transport crash in Vanderbijlpark on Monday, 19 January 2026, police confirmed on Thursday. Police charged a 22-year-old scholar transport driver with 14 counts of culpable homicide after two more learners died in hospital.

[HRW] UN Child Rights Body Should Urge Mine Suspension, Independent Assessment

Tony Blair was namechecked by the US president at the ceremony in Davos, where he hailed the level of interest in participating.

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A total of 27 male illegal immigrants arrived at the camp in Crowborough in the early hours of Thursday morning in mini-buses that were escorted by police.

Victoria Beckham could land her first ever solo number one amid her bitter fallout with son Brooklyn.

Families affected by the 1984 anti-Sikh riots expressed deep disappointment and anger after former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar was acquitted in a case linked to alleged incitement of violence. Despite this acquittal, Kumar remains in prison serving a life sentence in other related murder cases, leaving victims' families feeling their long search for justice is still unfulfilled.

Former US President Donald Trump launched his «Board of Peace» initiative at the World Economic Forum in Davos. India received an invitation to join this effort aimed at resolving global conflicts. However, India was not present on the stage during the unveiling. Several countries, including some from the Middle East and Asia, were listed as participants in the initiative.

The European far right’s pushback showed the limits of the president’s with-me-or-against-me politics, a key obstacle to cooperation among nationalist parties.

Trump and his envoy Witkoff have said a deal to resolve nearly four years of war between Russia and Ukraine is close.

Support for the Centre Party has increased by three percentage points month-on-month and now stands at 22.2% in the latest poll by Maskína. This is just under five percentage points lower than support for the Social Democratic Alliance, which measures at 27%.

Most people are concerned about the need for security and growth in their careers, including the dignity of knowing that they are able to contribute in their roles, said President Tharman Shanmugaratnam. President Tharman, who also co-chairs the World Bank Group's high-level advisory council on jobs, was speaking at the World Economic Forum's session on the jobs challenge in emerging markets on Wednesday (Jan 21) in Davos.Speaking after Ajay Banga, president of the World Bank Group, who talked about concerns regarding the insufficiency of jobs in emerging markets for people coming of age, President Tharman agreed that geopolitics aside, most people would be most concerned about jobs.He said: «Ask ordinary people around the world what their main concerns in life are, what is on the minds of most people is the need for security and growth in their careers. »Not necessarily the same job, but the security of a career, growth through their lives, and the dignity of knowing that they are able to contribute." 

The supply of Certificates of Entitlement (COE) for the February to April period will drop by 1 per cent compared to the previous quarter, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said on Thursday (Jan 22).The total number of COEs will fall slightly to 18,824, down from 18,894 from November 2025 to January 2026 period, which saw a 1.5 per cent increase.Compared with the last quarter, the quota for Categories A and E will decrease by around 1 and 13 per cent respectively, while the quota for Categories B and C will increase by around 1.5 per cent and 3 per cent respectively.The quota for Category D will remain unchanged.LTA added that bidding under the new quota will begin on Feb 2.The COE quota for the bidding period of May to July 2026 will be announced in April.The upcoming COE quota consists of the following components:

[New Times] The latest rejection by rebel leader Corneille Nangaa of President Félix Tshisekedi's overtures for yet another round of «peace talks» in Luanda should finally force a moment of honesty in Democratic Republic of Congo's long running crisis.