For the second time since 2022, mpox has been declared a global health emergency as the virus spreads rapidly across the African continent and risks entering other continents. The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday issued its highest level of alert for the viral disease, noting that more than 14,000…
Activists and doctors across India are planning to march on Wednesday evening to demand justice for a female doctor, who was raped and murdered while on duty in a hospital in the eastern city of Kolkata. Protests titled “Reclaim the Night” are expected in West Bengal, Delhi, Karnataka, Odisha, Assam,…
On June 25, the United States Justice Department announced the arrest of two high-ranking leaders of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel – co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. “Both men are facing multiple charges in the United States…
Mina Hamid*, who hails from Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the Netherlands at the age of 11, says she will never forget the first time she sent money to help her family members back home. “I was in my late teenage years, and Afghanistan was reeling under the impact of…
A Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region – the largest since the war began with about 1,000 soldiers and more than two dozen tanks and other armoured vehicles storming over the border this week – poses a threat to a major gas supply line from Russia to the European Union….
In a world where artificial intelligence can resurrect the dead, grief takes on a new dimension. From Canadian singer Drake’s use of AI-generated Tupac Shakur vocals to Indian politicians addressing crowds years after their passing, technology is blurring the lines between life and death. But beyond their uncanny pull in…
Barely a week after President Joe Biden dropped out from the US presidential race, his deputy Kamala Harris emerged as the top contender to get the Democratic nomination following a string of endorsements from senior party leaders, including former President Barack Obama. Other prominent Democrats who have thrown their weight…
As riots continue to rage in the United Kingdom, hotels housing asylum seekers have been torched by far-right agitators. The Holiday Inn Express hotel in Tamworth, in northern England, was set alight. Rioters also gathered near the Holiday Inn Express hotel used to house asylum seekers in Rotherham. Both incidents…
EXPLAINER Eating insects may be healthier, cheaper and better for the environment than consuming meat – what’s not to like? The Singapore Food Agency announced last month that it has approved 16 insect species as fit for human consumption. The agency has permitted some species of beetle, locusts, grasshoppers and…
EXPLAINER A growing number of airports are imposing restrictions on these electric suitcases over safety concerns. Rideable motorised suitcases, which emerged almost 10 years ago as something futuristically novel as well as functional, have increasingly become popular among travellers. But the rideable suitcase craze is getting pushback in some Japanese…
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