Month: July 2022
Australian Floods
Footage on social media showed submerged roads and bridges, while emergency crews rescued stranded people from partially submerged vehicles that became stuck in rising waters. Major flooding is occurring at Windsor in Sydney’s west, which is going through its third flood this year, with current water levels higher than seen in the deluge early this
High cost of Russian gains
Exhausting the Russians has long been part of the plan for the Ukrainians, who began the conflict outgunned – but hoped Western weapons could eventually tip the scales in their favor. Ukraine’s Defense Minister Hanna Malyar said recently that Russian forces were firing 10 times more ammunition than the Ukrainian military. After a failed attempt
China- USA Trade concerns
With inflation in the US having hit a 40-year high this March and gas prices at a record high, US President Joe Biden asked his team last month to examine options of potentially lifting some tariffs on Chinese goods in a bid to relieve US consumers. The US and China are the world’s two largest
Racist Post Against Meghan
In March 2021, Meghan accused an unnamed royal family member of making racist comments about her unborn child. Prince Harry was also asked whether racism was the reason the couple left Britain and replied: “It was a large part of it.” Two police officers in the U.K. have been dismissed over “inexcusable” WhatsApp messages including
is Sri Lanka ‘bankrupt
With debts of more than $50 billion (E48.5 billion) owed to foreign creditors, Sri Lanka is fast running out of gasoline medicine and food. Last month, the Sri Lankan government rationed the supply of fuel to essential services such as transport, health and food deliveries in an effort to “conserve the little reserves we have,”
Clean Energy in Vietnam
In the four years to 2021, the share of electricity generated by solar in Vietnam increased from practically nothing to nearly 11%. Not only was this a faster rate of increase than almost anywhere else in the world. It is a bigger share than larger economies such as France or Japan have managed. By last
Gulf Cities in the Sea
Since the 1960s Bahrain has added more than 11% to its land area through reclamation, says Mohammed Al Khalifa, the head of the property regulator. It may soon add much more. Last year Bahrain said it would build five new cities on reclaimed land. “We’re surrounded by shallow waters, so it doesn’t take much to
South Korea’s nuclear-power
South Korea’s president last month, wants to put nuclear power at the core of energy generation, reversing the phase-out policy of Moon Jae-in, his predecessor. As well as putting the two existing reactors at Shin Hanul to work Mr Yoon wants to build two new ones, a plan Mr Moon abandoned in 2017. He also
Fallopian tube recanalisation
This involves pushing a fine guidewire out through the end of a catheter and up the blocked tube. It is not a new approach. But it is, in the view of Lindsay Machan, an interventional radiologist at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, an underused one. According to Dr Machan, many reproductive endocrinologists and
Israel Military Alliance
When america and its Arab allies talked breathlessly in 2017 of forming a defence alliance that Donald Trump dubbed an Arab nato, which would have stretched from Egypt to Oman, the idea seemed doomed from the start. Now an even bigger alliance, including Israel and stretching from Morocco all the way to the United Arab