Annexation of Crimea from Ukraine
Russians who moved to Crimea after the region was annexed in 2014 should be worried since Kyiv has made it very clear that it doesn’t intend to make peace until all of the territory occupied by Russia has been returned to Ukraine including Crimea. Russia’s current narrative has transformed from one declaring Moscow could protect
New Tuberculosis Vaccine
A 100-year-old vaccine, the bcg, has helped, but it is only partially effective. On June 28th two of the world’s wealthiest charities, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome, said they would fund a late-stage trial of a new tb vaccine known as m72. That will cost $550m, of which the Gates Foundation will
Artificial intelligence on Employment
Speculation about the consequences of artificial Intelligence for jobs, productivity and quality of life is at fever pitch. The tech is awe-inspiring. And yet artificial Intelligence’s economic impact will be muted unless millions of firms beyond Silicon Valley adopt it. That would mean far more than using the odd chatbot. Instead, it would involve the
Twitter has lost nearly half advertising revenue
Mr Musk sacked about half of Twitter’s 7,500 staff when he took over in 2022 in an effort to cut costs. Meanwhile, Twitter is struggling under a heavy debt load. Cash flow remains negative, Mr Musk said at the weekend, although the billionaire did not put a time frame on the 50% drop in ad
Putin calls South Africa’s counterpart
BRICS, originally named BRIC, is an acronym for the world economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China, which in 2010 had included the letter S for South Africa. Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday. The Kremlin confirmed the conversation, saying it was based on the
Ukraine Counteroffensive
Fighting has intensified at multiple points along the 1,500-kilometer (930-mile) front line. Ukrainian forces are making steady progress along the northern and southern flanks of the wrecked city of Bakhmut, which Russian forces have been occupying since May. Battles are also raging along the southern front in Zaporizhzhia, where Ukrainian forces are making minimal gains
“American troops” into the Ukraine war
Heads of State and Government from across the military alliance are set to gather for a historic summit on the future path of transatlantic security and the issue at the top of the list for the military bloc’s members will be the issue of Ukraine’s future membership. On July 7th, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
Iran to enforce dress code in cities
Iranian police announced they were resuming patrols to enforce a strict dress code that requires women to cover their hair in public. In Tehran, male and female morality police officers could be seen patrolling the streets in marked vans on Sunday. Many women in Iran stopped covering their heads after the protests sparked by the
Putin’s tit for tat cluster bombs
Putin issued a warning to Ukraine not to deploy the largely internationally outlawed cluster munitions that were shipped recently by the United States. “I want to say that Russia has sufficient reserves of various types of cluster munitions,” Putin said in a video clip released by Russian state TV. Russia did not want to use
Deep sea mining for world’s battery-metal
The International Energy Agency (iea) reckons the world will add as much renewable power in the coming five years as it did in the past 20. Britain, France and Norway, among others, plan to ban the sale of new internal-combustion cars. Even where bans are not on the statute books, electric-car sales are growing rapidly.