December 2024
January 2025
Dutch Minister Extends Deadline for Asylum Seeker Housing Quotas
Dutch Minister Faber will not compel municipalities and provinces to meet their asylum seeker housing quotas, opting for a six-month extension instead, despite a shortfall of approximately 7,000 places from the initial 96,000 target. The COA projects a need for 115,000 places by January 1, 2026, hig...
Dutch Minister Extends Deadline for Asylum Seeker Housing Quotas
Dutch Minister Faber will not compel municipalities and provinces to meet their asylum seeker housing quotas, opting for a six-month extension instead, despite a shortfall of approximately 7,000 places from the initial 96,000 target. The COA projects a need for 115,000 places by January 1, 2026, hig...
Progress
44% Bias Score
Malaysia to Resume MH370 Search in 2025
Malaysia's government approved a new search for the missing flight MH370, enlisting Ocean Infinity to scour a 15,000-square-kilometer area in the southern Indian Ocean next year, costing \$70 million only if wreckage is found, aiming to finally provide closure to the families of the 239 passengers a...
Malaysia to Resume MH370 Search in 2025
Malaysia's government approved a new search for the missing flight MH370, enlisting Ocean Infinity to scour a 15,000-square-kilometer area in the southern Indian Ocean next year, costing \$70 million only if wreckage is found, aiming to finally provide closure to the families of the 239 passengers a...
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44% Bias Score
Spain's Electricity Demand Rises in 2024
Spain's electricity demand increased by 1.4% in 2024, reversing pandemic-era declines, driven by lower energy prices, economic recovery, and household electrification, although consumption remains below pre-pandemic levels. The impact of widespread solar panel installation remains unclear.
Spain's Electricity Demand Rises in 2024
Spain's electricity demand increased by 1.4% in 2024, reversing pandemic-era declines, driven by lower energy prices, economic recovery, and household electrification, although consumption remains below pre-pandemic levels. The impact of widespread solar panel installation remains unclear.
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36% Bias Score
Spain Launches Capacity Mechanism to Address Electricity Shortfall
Spain launched a public consultation for a new capacity mechanism to pay power plants for grid reliability, addressing a projected shortfall exceeding EU standards (6.26 hours in 2025, decreasing to 2.34 hours in 2030) and modeled after similar EU programs. The plan, pre-notified to the EU Commissio...
Spain Launches Capacity Mechanism to Address Electricity Shortfall
Spain launched a public consultation for a new capacity mechanism to pay power plants for grid reliability, addressing a projected shortfall exceeding EU standards (6.26 hours in 2025, decreasing to 2.34 hours in 2030) and modeled after similar EU programs. The plan, pre-notified to the EU Commissio...
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48% Bias Score
Ziguinchor's Paradox: Abundant Rainfall, Severe Water Shortage
Despite abundant rainfall, Ziguinchor, Senegal, faces a severe potable water shortage affecting island communities in Bignona and Oussouye, forcing residents to travel great distances, highlighting infrastructure and governance issues, while urban areas have functioning systems.
Ziguinchor's Paradox: Abundant Rainfall, Severe Water Shortage
Despite abundant rainfall, Ziguinchor, Senegal, faces a severe potable water shortage affecting island communities in Bignona and Oussouye, forcing residents to travel great distances, highlighting infrastructure and governance issues, while urban areas have functioning systems.
Progress
48% Bias Score
Water Access Protests in Senegal: High Costs and Quality Concerns"
In the Kaolack and Kaffrine regions of Senegal, despite 98.41% reported access to potable water, 1.5 million users face water cuts, high costs (50,000-90,000 FCFA connection fees, 5000 FCFA average bills), and quality concerns due to the transfer of borehole management from local associations to far...
Water Access Protests in Senegal: High Costs and Quality Concerns"
In the Kaolack and Kaffrine regions of Senegal, despite 98.41% reported access to potable water, 1.5 million users face water cuts, high costs (50,000-90,000 FCFA connection fees, 5000 FCFA average bills), and quality concerns due to the transfer of borehole management from local associations to far...
Progress
56% Bias Score
Minneapolis Amends Abortion Clinic Access Ordinance After Lawsuit
Minneapolis amended a 2022 ordinance prohibiting obstruction of abortion clinic entrances after a lawsuit by anti-abortion activists claiming free-speech violation; the city will pay plaintiffs' legal fees estimated at $600,000, excluding constitutionally protected activities from the amended ordina...
Minneapolis Amends Abortion Clinic Access Ordinance After Lawsuit
Minneapolis amended a 2022 ordinance prohibiting obstruction of abortion clinic entrances after a lawsuit by anti-abortion activists claiming free-speech violation; the city will pay plaintiffs' legal fees estimated at $600,000, excluding constitutionally protected activities from the amended ordina...
Progress
36% Bias Score
Hamburg Tafel Faces Critical Food Shortage Amid Rising Demand
The Hamburg Tafel, facing a 33% rise in food prices since 2021 and reduced donations from retailers, struggles to meet soaring demand, with 80% of its distribution points unable to accept new clients, while maintaining current support levels for registered clients.
Hamburg Tafel Faces Critical Food Shortage Amid Rising Demand
The Hamburg Tafel, facing a 33% rise in food prices since 2021 and reduced donations from retailers, struggles to meet soaring demand, with 80% of its distribution points unable to accept new clients, while maintaining current support levels for registered clients.
Progress
36% Bias Score
Italian Decree Creates Challenges for NCC Drivers
A new Italian decree requires NCC drivers to take a 20-minute break between rides and submit electronic trip logs, creating operational challenges and longer wait times for customers, impacting service efficiency and potentially tourism.
Italian Decree Creates Challenges for NCC Drivers
A new Italian decree requires NCC drivers to take a 20-minute break between rides and submit electronic trip logs, creating operational challenges and longer wait times for customers, impacting service efficiency and potentially tourism.
Progress
52% Bias Score
House Passes Stopgap Spending Bill, Omitting Debt Limit After Trump Intervention
The House passed a short-term spending bill funding the government until March 14, omitting the debt ceiling, after President-elect Trump and Elon Musk influenced its revisions, securing bipartisan support despite prior failures.
House Passes Stopgap Spending Bill, Omitting Debt Limit After Trump Intervention
The House passed a short-term spending bill funding the government until March 14, omitting the debt ceiling, after President-elect Trump and Elon Musk influenced its revisions, securing bipartisan support despite prior failures.
Progress
36% Bias Score
Senegal's Water Access: Progress and Persistent Disparities
Senegal shows significant progress in water access, with nearly 99% in urban areas and 96.9% in rural areas in 2022, but disparities persist, particularly in remote areas, highlighting the challenges in achieving universal access by 2030 under SDG 6.
Senegal's Water Access: Progress and Persistent Disparities
Senegal shows significant progress in water access, with nearly 99% in urban areas and 96.9% in rural areas in 2022, but disparities persist, particularly in remote areas, highlighting the challenges in achieving universal access by 2030 under SDG 6.
Progress
32% Bias Score
Senegal and Gambia Strengthen Economic Ties at Banjul Forum
Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and Gambia's Vice President Muhammed B.S. Jallow co-chaired the second Senegal-Gambian Economic Forum in Banjul on December 20, 2024, focusing on strengthening bilateral cooperation and increasing trade from \$19.5 million (117 billion FCFA) to \$83.3 million (...
Senegal and Gambia Strengthen Economic Ties at Banjul Forum
Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and Gambia's Vice President Muhammed B.S. Jallow co-chaired the second Senegal-Gambian Economic Forum in Banjul on December 20, 2024, focusing on strengthening bilateral cooperation and increasing trade from \$19.5 million (117 billion FCFA) to \$83.3 million (...
Progress
48% Bias Score