"We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.”

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 7 August 2026 – The Silk Road Caravan, a global outreach campaign shining the spotlight on rangelands and pastoralists, today begins its journey across Mongolia, just days before the start of the seventeenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ulaanbaatar on 17 August.

AMMAN, 6 August 2026 – At least 300 children have been reportedly killed in Gaza in the 300 days since a ceasefire was announced in October 2025.

On 7 July 2026, as part of the Global Dialogue on AI Governance, APC's Global Programme Director Raman Jit Singh Chima delivered the following keynote address at the multistakeholder plenary meeting at the high-level governmental segment: Dialogue of Dialogues – Reflections, Complementarities and the Way Forward.