Five years after the Taliban returned to power, Afghanistan is no longer defined by the nationwide war that consumed it for two decades. The Taliban controls the country, large-scale fighting has receded, and Kabul insists that Afghan territory will not be used to threaten
On Aug. 18, a three-judge bench of Pakistan’s Supreme Court, Justice Shahid
“The United Nations was not created in order to bring us to
Government of India has set the target of achieving a major leap
The warning comes as tensions between the Ethiopian Government’s National Defense Force
“Chabad wants to play a two-faced game, backing Israel’s most fanatic settlers on annexation but maintaining its non-political Jewish outreach image and funding…” ~ Rabbi Erich H Yoffie (Haaretz – 18. 6.2020)
by Luxman Aravind Sri Lanka’s latest controversy over Chabad Houses has become something far more revealing than a dispute over a religious centre in a tourist town. It is becoming a case study in how political anger, communal suspicion and
“Here I have shaken down a money tree. Now come and collect what you can…” S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike uttered these words at a public rally
One of the best known and most honoured singers of Sri Lanka, Sangeetha Visharada Dr Nanda Malini — the artist who marked an entire
Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, has reached a position few would have predicted for a country long defined by isolation and international sanctions. Donald Trump wants to meet him again, Vladimir Putin needs him to sustain Russia’s war in Ukraine, and Xi
An August 1931 encounter in Rome left Heinrich Brüning, Germany’s chancellor, visibly
In 1993, James Carville, a senior adviser to US President Bill Clinton,
The Panama Canal has long been one of the world’s most important
Trump offered to scale down the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise (carried out annually by the US Forces in Korea (USFK) and Republic of Korea (ROK) military). In Trumpian style, the decision was framed as everything all at once: punishment against South Korea for its
Julián Casanova has spent much of his career examining the violence that shaped modern Europe, from the Russian Revolution and anarchism to the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Now, as the historian prepares to retire from the University of Zaragoza,
In Moscow, the mood is increasingly uneasy. “I don’t understand anything. Last
A Chinese humanoid robot has run 100 metres in 9.39 seconds, beating
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Sunday that peace could only be
Julián Casanova has spent much of his career examining the violence that shaped modern Europe, from the Russian Revolution and anarchism to the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
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The MV Ocean Winner was carrying iron ore from Odisha to Singapore when it disappeared from tracking systems nearly two days after leaving Paradip Port. Twenty of its crew members are Chinese,
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“Chabad wants to play a two-faced game, backing Israel’s most fanatic settlers on annexation but maintaining its non-political Jewish outreach image and funding…” ~ Rabbi Erich H Yoffie (Haaretz – 18. 6.2020)
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Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, has reached a position few would have predicted for a country long defined by isolation and international sanctions. Donald Trump wants to meet him again,
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He does not wear a white coat and he is not a doctor. Yet for the past twenty years, Marcos has been a familiar presence at Madrid’s Fundación Jiménez Díaz, attending an
More A Chinese humanoid robot has run 100 metres in 9.39 seconds, beating the men’s world record held by Jamaican sprinting great Usain Bolt, in a preliminary heat at the World Humanoid Robot
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Australia has confirmed its first case of H5N1 bird flu in a mammal, after the highly pathogenic virus was detected in a long-nosed fur seal in South Australia, authorities said on Sunday.
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China’s Alibaba said on Sunday it plans to raise HK$80 billion ($10.2 billion) through a share placement to finance the development of artificial intelligence, in what would become the largest-ever primary follow-on
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In Karur, near the southern tip of India, the rise of artificial intelligence is visible not only in technology but in the hundreds of young people who fill the city’s streets during breaks from work. Men and women in their 20s move between offices
The company says it has temporarily paused some advanced reinforcement-learning training as
Meta faces its most consequential legal challenge as a former engineer alleges
Millions of people are now forming relationships with artificial intelligence, using chatbots
Australia has confirmed its first case of H5N1 bird flu in a mammal, after the highly pathogenic virus was detected in a long-nosed fur seal in South Australia, authorities said on Sunday.
Several years ago, psychiatrist Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell began noticing a striking change among teenage girls and young women arriving for their first psychiatric sessions. Instead of waiting anxiously to hear whether a professional believed something was wrong with them, many arrived
A Harvard-led team has developed a method for keeping human brain organoids alive and developing for years, opening new possibilities for studying brain development,
The smartphone has turned even the bathroom into a place of digital escape, raising wider questions about attention, relationships and the ability to disconnect.
by Eric Chris A. Rutkowski’s Canada’s UFO Secrets: Disclosing Government Files on What Is Happening in Our Skies is most interesting when it stops behaving like a UFO book. Its real subject
by Nil Rory Cormac’s Fakers is not merely a history of British covert propaganda. It is an anatomy of a state learning to weaponise uncertainty. Its most unsettling achievement is to show
Mahvash Sabet’s Open Wide the Doors: A Memoir of Faith, Hope and Freedom in Iran is ostensibly a prison memoir, but its real subject is larger and more dangerous: what happens when
by Luxman Laura K. Field’s Furious Minds is an ambitious and often unsettling attempt to explain not merely what the MAGA New Right believes, but how a movement once dismissed as a
