Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)
Hear about this and more from former Director General of MI5, Baroness Manningham-Buller, in Lord Speaker’s Corner.
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Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)
Our engineers have been drilling into the Thames riverbed and beyond, uncovering 19th century secrets and mapping the ground to support future restoration work.
This is also the first time in many years that river access has been used to deliver equipment to the Palace of Westminster. 🛥️
Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
Dr. Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, the Minister of Electricity and Energy, briefs the media on South Africa’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP 2025) .
Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)
On Tuesday 21 October the House of Lords presses the government in an urgent question, put forward by Lord Harris of Haringey and granted by the Lord Speaker, on the recent Amazon Web Services outage.
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Source: European Central Bank (video statements)
But do you remember which was the most recent country to adopt it?#EuropeanCentralBank #EvrotoBG #EuroInBulgaria #Bulgaria #Euro #Europe #ECB
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Source: International Monetary Fund – IMF (video statements)
Blurb: Jihad Azour, Director of the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Department, shares three key messages from the latest economic outlook for the Middle East and North Africa region.
Read the full report: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/REO/MECA/Issues/2025/10/21/regional-economic-outlook-middle-east-central-asia-october-2025?cid=sm-com-yt-AM2025-REOMCDEA2025002
Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)
The Science Innovation and Technology Committee hears from the Information Commissioner, John Edwards, about the UK data protection regulator’s response to the Afghan data breach announced in July.
MPs may also explore the proposed introduction of a new digital ID, the rollout of facial recognition technology by police forces and the protection of children and their data online.
Source: World Trade Organization – WTO (video statements)
Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala welcomed Wasantha Samarasinghe, Sri Lanka’s Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Co-operative Development, to the WTO on 20 October, after his country’s Trade Policy Review.
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https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/webcas_e/webcas_e.htm
Source: World Trade Organization – WTO (video statements)
Nigeria’s Minister of Trade and Investment, Jumoke Oduwole, paid a visit to the WTO on 20 October and met with Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Oduwole shared her country’s priorities for the 14th Ministerial Conference, which takes place in Cameroon in March 2026.
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https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/webcas_e/webcas_e.htm
Source: European Central Bank (video statements)
The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the European Central Bank (ECB) are organising their 2025 conference WE_ARE_IN Macroeconomics and Finance. The aim of the conference is to bring together women in economics who will present and discuss new research on macroeconomics and finance which is of particular interest to central banks.
WE_ARE_IN stands for Women in Economics: Advancing Research in Economics Internationally. It complements the WE_ARE initiative, a CEPR seminar series in which junior women present their work and receive constructive feedback from their peers and from senior economists.
