Nepal’s UN speech was powerful in its portrayal of climate vulnerability but far less complete in explaining the forces behind it. Its strongest arguments about climate justice, broken supply chains and unequal
Myanmar’s military government has seized close to 10,000 mobile phones and related equipment used in online scam operations as part of an escalating crackdown on criminal syndicates operating near the Thai border,
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Pakistan is preparing to launch an ambitious offshore energy project as it races to accelerate exploration of what some officials believe could be significant untapped reserves. According to reporting from Bloomberg, state-owned
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India may soon be forced into a high-stakes test of its energy strategy as tankers carrying millions of barrels of Russian oil approach its coastline just as new US sanctions come into
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Tsinghua University, China’s premier science and technology institution, is emerging as a powerhouse in artificial intelligence, translating academic excellence into a surge of startups, patents, and technological influence, Bloomberg reports. The campus,
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HSBC Holdings Plc Chief Executive Georges Elhedery has warned that the world is becoming increasingly fragmented, with certain high-value assets such as semiconductors, next-generation AI code, and data being treated as national
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Scientists have found that humanity’s love of kissing dates back far earlier than previously imagined, possibly originating with our distant ape ancestors 21 million years ago, a new study by the University
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The widow of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi has criticized President Donald Trump for ignoring her efforts to discuss her husband’s brutal murder with him, describing the experience as “painful,” according to an
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Britain will launch a network of new munitions factories in a major effort to strengthen its warfighting readiness and revive domestic production of military explosives after nearly two decades. Defence Secretary John
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The West’s effort to establish a domestic rare earth magnets supply chain, heavily supported by the U.S., is hitting a critical obstacle: a shortage of heavy rare earth elements, according to multiple
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Air India is lobbying the Indian government to persuade China to allow its flights through a restricted military airspace zone in Xinjiang, a move aimed at shortening international routes after Pakistan closed
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Jenny Button first imagined Emm during the COVID-19 lockdown while using an Oura ring and a Whoop monitoring band. She was gaining insights about her body but realized there was a glaring
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The newly released Anthropic investigation reveals that a state-sponsored threat group has carried out the first largely autonomous cyber-espionage campaign, using an AI system to execute nearly all stages of the attack
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The U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka proudly celebrated the 250th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps at the annual Marine Corps Ball on November 15, honoring a quarter-millennium of the Corps’
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Editor’s Note: This feature draws from a conversation with Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, joined by Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg, and Vineeta Agarwala, exploring the groundbreaking work of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
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China is launching an array of financial incentives—including wedding subsidies, child-rearing benefits and home-purchase grants—in an escalating attempt to reverse the country’s steep population decline, according to Times UK. The dramatic policy
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