That’s according to an OECD report published Monday. Amid stricter regulations and fewer job prospects, labor migration dropped by over a fifth since the year before. Still, the number of migrants in OECD nations is at a historic high, up from 9.1% of the population in 2014 to 11.5% in 2024. The number of new asylum seekers last year was the highest on record.

A Paris criminal court opens a six-week trial Tuesday to determine whether cement giant Lafarge and several former executives are guilty of financing terrorism and breaching EU sanctions in Syria. Investigators allege Lafarge Cement Syria paid over €5 million to armed groups, including ISIS, between 2013 and 2014 to keep its factory running. The case marks France’s first corporate terrorism-financing trial and a major test of parent-company liability for crimes abroad.

He told reporters he hoped to stop the alleged killing of Christians. His comments followed a social media post on Friday claiming that the U.S. “cannot stand by while such atrocities are happening.” Attacks have targeted both Christians and Muslims in Nigeria. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his own post stressed the “sincere efforts of the government to safeguard freedom of religion.”

Authorities have ruled out terrorism as the cause of the attack on a London-bound train Saturday, in which 11 people people were stabbed. The incident comes as the United Kingdom was starting to see a drop in knife attacks, after a decade of rising rates. A railway staff member who tried to stop the attack remains in critical condition. Police said his efforts “undoubtedly saved many lives” and were “nothing short of heroic.”