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Trump brings new heat to controversial UN agency as alleged Hamas ties engulf scores of employees
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President Donald Trump recently amplified a report about a U.S. government investigation that referred more than 100 current or former UNRWA employees over alleged ties to Hamas — as a new watchdog report accuses the U.N. agency of overstating how much it has reformed.
The scrutiny, which included Trump sharing the report on Truth Social in August, comes as Geneva-based UN Watch released a report Monday challenging UNRWA’s claim that it has completed 41 of the 50 reforms recommended by an independent review led by former French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna.
UN Watch says that when it compared UNRWA’s claims with what Colonna actually recommended, at most 13 of the 50 reforms had been completed as prescribed. The group argues that UNRWA repeatedly counted drafting policies, launching pilot programs or creating plans as completed reforms even when full implementation had not occurred.
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United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Gaza, June 2023. (Ahmed Zakot/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
«UNRWA is grading its own homework — and giving itself credit for reforms that exist mainly on paper,» UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer told Fox News Digital. «A policy is not a reform if it is ignored, unenforced or blocked by staff unions dominated by Hamas.»
Among the examples cited in the report is staff vetting. UNRWA lists a «Commercial Vetting Pilot & Costed Plan» as completed, along with other screening measures. UN Watch argues that a pilot and implementation plan do not amount to a fully operational outside vetting system.
The report also challenges UNRWA’s education reforms. UNRWA lists systematic textbook reviews and randomized classroom inspections among completed steps, while a policy prohibiting problematic educational content is still described as «in progress.»
Colonna herself said when presenting her review in April 2024 that some educational content remained problematic, citing «glorification of jihad,» incitement to violence and maps that did not show Israel, while calling for a zero-tolerance approach.
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UNRWA’s headquarters in Gaza City, Gaza on Feb. 21, 2024. (Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Pressed by Fox News Digital at Tuesday’s U.N. briefing over who independently verifies whether the reforms are actually working on the ground, U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric defended the process.
«It is not just checking boxes for the sake of checking boxes,» Dujarric said, «It’s about the implementation of those things.»
Dujarric said UNRWA regularly reports to the General Assembly, holds integrity meetings open to member states and gives governments opportunities to scrutinize what the agency is doing.
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This picture taken during a media tour organized by the Israeli army on February 8, 2024, shows Israeli soldiers inside an evacuated compound of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza City. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)
Asked specifically about staff screening, he said UNRWA relies in part on countries where it operates.
«We rely on the member states also, where we operate, who have the capacity to check people to do so,» Dujarric said, adding that UNRWA shares staff lists with Israeli, Jordanian, Lebanese and Syrian authorities. «If there are concerns, they need to be shared directly with UNRWA. When they are, they take action.»
The Colonna review was commissioned by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres in February 2024 after allegations that UNRWA employees had participated in the Oct. 7 attacks. Guterres accepted all 50 recommendations in April 2024 and agreed with UNRWA leadership to establish an action plan to implement them.
Neuer rejected the idea that the disagreement is merely about terminology.
Heavy machinery operates as Israeli forces dismantle the Jerusalem headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in East Jerusalem, Jan. 20, 2026. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)
«This is not a semantic disagreement over the meaning of ‘completed,’» he said. «UNRWA says the job is done, yet teachers tied to terrorist organizations remain in classrooms, Hamas-dominated unions obstruct discipline, and children continue to be exposed to incitement. Those are real-world consequences, not technicalities.»
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Violent scenes are emerging from France Tuesday as tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to demand education reform, forcing the reported closure of more than half of the country’s high schools.
France’s interior ministry said 6,100 people have been taken into custody since the protests began in September, while at least 715 police officers and 215 teenagers have been injured in clashes, according to Reuters.
Video taken in cities including Paris, Lyon and Strasbourg showed demonstrators facing off with police, lighting fires and dodging tear gas. In other areas, such as Marseille and Nantes, protesters held up signs with messages like, «The state has killed national education,» Reuters reported.
The Interior Ministry estimated that 86,000 people took part in demonstrations outside Paris on Tuesday morning. More were gathering in the capital for a protest scheduled for the afternoon.
«What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration. This isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!» Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social.
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Riot police use a water cannon as they face students during a protest against under-resourced schools in Rennes, western France, on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. (Jeremias Gonzalez/AP)
The protests are quickly blowing up as a hot topic in the election campaign to replace President Emmanuel Macron next May. Far-left presidential hopeful Jean-Luc Mélenchon has decried the government response to the protests as repressive. Critics have accused his party, La France Insoumise, (LFI), of seeking to use the unrest to score points in the presidential campaign and of inciting violence.
Video previously posted to social media showed the Seine-Saint Denis mayor, Bally Bagayoko of the LFI, joining in with students, smiling and high-fiving pupils after a trash can was set on fire in the street. And the president of the Île‑de‑France region told Radio Monte Carlo, «There is a call to action being issued by LFI today: ‘Trash your high school.’ It is being spread via TikTok challenges.»
LFI has denied the accusations, according to Reuters.
«This is a combination of the Islamists, together with the communists, the socialists, the far-left that are joining forces, and this is an outright uprising and insurrection basically is what it is that we are witnessing in France,» Nile Gardiner, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, told Fox News’ «The Faulkner Focus» on Tuesday. «The stakes are incredibly high for the French people and this is a warning for the United States, as well.»
Authorities began shutting schools last week to try to defuse tensions after widespread damage to schools and mounting injuries among staff, students and police. Classes were totally or partially suspended Tuesday at 891 schools, according to the Education Ministry. The High School Students Union also told Reuters that over half of France’s high schools were closed or blockaded Tuesday.
Students have drawn attention to rundown classrooms that lack basics such as desks and chairs, become sweltering in summer without air conditioning and, in some cases, are infested with rats.
French riot police stand near burning objects during clashes with protesters in Paris on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. (Reuters)
Other common complaints include staff shortages and exhausting workloads. French high school students’ compulsory classroom hours are among the highest in Europe.
«We want more money for the national educational system so that high schools are renovated,» Roberta, a recent high school graduate in Paris, told Reuters.
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Students march with a large red banner reading «Police officers, enemy of the people» during a protest against under-resourced schools in Rennes, western France, on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. (Jeremias Gonzalez/AP)
In one of the recent demonstrations in the town of Lens on Monday, a 15-year-old had picked up a police dispersal grenade that detonated, losing his hand and part of his lower arm, officials said.
Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has asked ministers in France to address student demands, including repairs to aging buildings, a call for longer lunch breaks and a review of the 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. school day, according to Reuters.
French riot police officers remove elements of a burning street barricade during a demonstration by French high school and university students in Lyon on Oct. 6, 2026. (Reuters)
Felix Barney, a university student, told The Associated Press that the police response was disproportionate.
«It doesn’t have any sense to hit minors,» he said.
A masked protester throws an object amid clashes with French police during a demonstration in Paris on Tuesday. (Reuters)
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez on Tuesday defended policing methods used against high schoolers, saying the police response has been proportionate in «almost all cases.»
Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano, Tyler Speicher, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Trump turns to emerging tech giant in multi-billion bid to ramp up US submarine production
The Trump administration is turning to a defense technology giant in a $6.6 billion effort to speed production of submarines as the U.S. struggles to keep pace with China’s vast shipbuilding capacity.
The ramp-up in production brings a Silicon Valley-style manufacturer into one of the Pentagon’s most troubled industrial bases as they fall behind expected pace of two Virginia-class attack submarines per year.
Anduril will build a more than 2-million-square-foot shipyard at Sparrows Point shipyard just outside of Baltimore to manufacture critical submarine components, eventually scaling up to large sections of the vessels. A senior administration official said the facility could add roughly 9 million labor hours a year, equivalent to about a 15% increase in submarine production capacity.
President Donald Trump will visit the shipyard on Tuesday afternoon to formally announce the new initiative in Baltimore alongside Anduril leadership.
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The investment takes aim at a problem the Navy has struggled for years to solve: shipyards are delivering roughly 1.3 Virginia-class submarines a year, well short of the Navy’s goal of two, even as demand for the nuclear-powered attack boats grows. The Navy currently projects reaching the two-per-year rate around 2032. It currently has 26 Virginia-class submarines and expects to add two more in the spring, according to a senior administration official.and
For the submarine project, Anduril plans to invest $3.7 billion of its own capital to build the facility, workforce and manufacturing capacity. The Navy could spend up to another $2.9 billion purchasing the resulting production.
The deal represents an unusual bet on a commercial model for fixing one of the Pentagon’s most stubborn industrial problems: Anduril will risk billions of dollars of its own capital building new submarine production capacity, while the Navy pays for what the company can successfully produce.
«I wouldn’t say that the government’s paying us back. We feel the government [is] buying the results of what we’re able to produce,» an industry official told reporters of the deal.
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The deal also deepens Anduril’s growing relationship with the Pentagon just days after War Secretary Pete Hegseth tapped company founder Palmer Luckey, along with Elon Musk and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, to launch Project Meridian — a 120-day study of how future wars will be fought and what weapons and technologies the U.S. military will need.
The arrangement puts Luckey in a position to help shape recommendations about the Pentagon’s future technology needs as the company he founded expands its own business selling weapons and other systems to the department. Project Meridian does not have procurement authority, and the Pentagon has said «appropriate» safeguards will be used to address potential conflicts of interest.
Anduril will work under General Dynamics Electric Boat and alongside HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding, initially producing components that have become bottlenecks in the construction of new Virginia-class boats.
Among the first will be torpedo tubes , which a senior administration official described as a current «gating component» holding up production. The official said getting those tubes earlier could allow the Navy to move.
Anduril has already begun work on torpedo tubes at a facility in California and plans to shift that production to Baltimore as the new shipyard, dubbed Arsenal-2, comes online. The company eventually hopes to move from individual components to complex modules and large sections of submarines.
«We just need new production capacity,» an industry official said. «We need to grow the maritime industrial base, the submarine industrial base, so that we can produce more submarines.»
The company plans to build Arsenal-2 around software, automation and digital manufacturing to break historically complex shipbuilding work into simpler tasks that can be done without years of shipyard experience.
The push comes as the Navy faces growing pressure to expand the attack-submarine fleet while also preparing to transfer Virginia-class submarines to Australia under the AUKUS security pact. Meeting those commitments will require the industrial base not only to reach the Navy’s longstanding two-per-year goal, but eventually move beyond it.
Arsenal-2 is expected to create 3,100 direct jobs and another 11,000 indirect jobs nationwide. Anduril expects the Baltimore facility to begin operations around 2030, though the company said production of some submarine components is beginning now in California.
The approach will still have to clear the certification and safety requirements that govern nuclear submarine construction. Anduril acknowledged that it will have to prove it can meet those standards before graduating from individual components to increasingly complex sections of the boats.
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El 42% de las compañías de Centroamérica identifica a la tecnología y la transformación digital como su principal desafío interno para los próximos tres años, según el reciente estudio Desafíos y Tendencias de las Empresas 2026 de EY. El sondeo muestra que la presión de los clientes, los cambios en los mercados y la llegada de competidores obligan a las organizaciones a revisar sus estrategias y capacidades de ejecución.
Los cambios en las preferencias, la demanda y el comportamiento de los clientes aparecen como el principal reto externo para el 33% de las empresas consultadas. Le siguen los riesgos propios de cada sector, con 29%, y la irrupción de nuevos competidores y productos sustitutos, tanto locales como globales, con 27%.
El crecimiento de la participación de mercado y las mejoras operativas, de productividad y costos también alcanzaron el 27%. Más atrás quedaron el escenario económico global, citado por el 24%, y la incertidumbre geopolítica, con 23%.
El informe se elaboró a partir de las respuestas de 1,988 ejecutivos y directores de más de 18 países de América Latina. Para Centroamérica y República Dominicana, EY tomó un corte regional agregado de 90 respuestas, por lo que los resultados no representan mediciones individuales por país.
Mercados inestables y consumidores más exigentes, los factores que ordenan la agenda
Los resultados exponen una agenda empresarial marcada por la necesidad de reaccionar ante mercados menos estables y consumidores con mayores exigencias. El estudio señala que las organizaciones de Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panamá y República Dominicana enfrentan un entorno donde la capacidad de transformación definirá parte de su posición competitiva.
La competencia entre Estados Unidos y China figura entre los factores externos que las compañías siguen de cerca. El 50% de los ejecutivos consultados consideró que esa disputa tendrá un efecto neutro sobre sus negocios en el corto plazo. Otro 27% anticipó consecuencias positivas o muy positivas, mientras que el 23% previó un impacto negativo o muy negativo.
La dispersión de las respuestas refleja que las consecuencias de las tensiones geopolíticas no son homogéneas en la región. Su incidencia depende de la exposición de cada empresa a las cadenas de suministro, las importaciones, la inversión extranjera y las dinámicas de cada industria.
En el plano interno, después de la tecnología y la transformación digital, la automatización de procesos se ubicó como el segundo desafío, con 28%. La encuesta plantea que las empresas ya no consideran la tecnología solo como una herramienta de eficiencia: también la ven como un elemento que modifica la competencia y aumenta los riesgos operativos.
La ciberseguridad y la protección de datos, primeras entre las tendencias del sector
La ciberseguridad y la protección de datos encabezan las tendencias empresariales identificadas por el estudio, con 89%. La transformación digital acelerada alcanzó el 87%; el uso de los datos como activo transversal, el 84%; la innovación, el 82%; y la productividad impulsada por la tecnología, el 80%.
El informe vincula estas prioridades con una mayor atención sobre los activos digitales. Las empresas buscan incorporar tecnología a sus procesos, aunque el desafío consiste en traducir esas inversiones en cambios operativos y resultados de negocio.
“La capacidad de implementación será el factor decisivo para convertir la tecnología en resultados tangibles”, afirmó Jaime Bonilla, gerente sénior de EY Parthenon. El ejecutivo sostuvo que las compañías avanzan desde una agenda centrada en optimizar estructuras existentes hacia otra orientada al desarrollo de capacidades para transformarse y diferenciarse.
Inteligencia artificial: alta expectativa, adopción todavía limitada
La inteligencia artificial ocupa el primer lugar entre las tecnologías que las empresas prevén con mayor impacto, con 87%. Le siguen Analytics y Big Data, con 81%, y la automatización inteligente, la robótica y los sistemas ciberfísicos, también con 81%.
Pese a ese nivel de expectativa, la adopción plena todavía es limitada. El 81% de las empresas se encuentra en fases de investigación y evaluación, con 25%; pruebas piloto, con 24%; o implementaciones específicas, con 32%. La proporción de organizaciones que ya obtuvo resultados significativos a escala sigue siendo minoritaria.
Bonilla señaló que el próximo desafío consiste en pasar de la experimentación a capacidades que puedan aplicarse en toda la organización. Según el estudio, las empresas que articulen inteligencia artificial, datos, automatización y objetivos de negocio tendrán mejores condiciones para transformar la inversión tecnológica en productividad y competitividad.
En el caso de El Salvador, la Asamblea Legislativa aprobó recientemente un régimen especial para proyectos nacionales de inteligencia artificial, robótica y tecnologías similares, remitido el 21 de septiembre de 2026 por el Gobierno para agilizar adquisiciones, contratación de expertos y permisos migratorios bajo coordinación de la Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial. La iniciativa excluye esas operaciones de la Ley de Compras Públicas, según informó Infobae.
Los proyectos también podrán incluir obras e infraestructura: equipos de cómputo, centros de datos, laboratorios, sistemas de energía, refrigeración e interconexión. El director ejecutivo de la Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial determinará qué iniciativas ingresan en esta categoría mediante una resolución fundamentada.
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