Category: Latest News

Oct 29
Fighting widens across Ethiopia as Tigray clashes escalate

Armed groups clashed with government forces across northern Ethiopia as fears mount of regional spillover.

Oct 29
How Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani built Qatar’s soft power

Leader known as Qatar's father emir was able to redefine his nation's position on the political map of the Middle East.

Oct 29
ENJOY AI Launches First Americas Open, Expanding International AI and Robotics Education Network

SHANGHAI, Aug. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- From July 18 to 20, the inaugural ENJOY AI 2026 Americas Open was held at the Pan Am Centre in Markham, Ontario, Canada, bringing together hundreds of young innovators from Canada, Mexico, Türkiye, and Ethiopia for robot…

Oct 29
Cultural sustainability through kinship networks: A quantitative analysis of marriage strategies in Qing China’s literary lineages (1644–1911)

This study examines how marriage-network position was associated with recorded literary visibility among Qing literary families. Using Xu Yanping’s Genealogical Networks of Literary Lineages in the Qing Dynasty (2010), we reconstructed a reproducible surname–…

Oct 29
Zayed Sustainability Prize’s Beyond2020 Initiative Strengthens Healthcare Resilience for Over 200,000 People in India

Six solar-powered health facilities continue to improve reliable healthcare delivery across rural Karnataka ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Beyond2020, the flagship initiative launched by the Zayed Sustainability Prize, the UAE’s pioneering award for innova…

Oct 29
Energy Blockades: Houthis, Trump & the Expanding War

The Iranian-backed Houthis of the Ansar Allah (Partisans of God) movement are now doing much the same thing

Oct 29
Putin, Xi and Iran’s Pezeshkian descend on India for high-stakes BRICS summit amid escalating global tensions

Presidents of Iran, Russia, and China converge on New Delhi for the BRICS summit as India navigates competing interests amid Middle East and Ukraine wars.

Oct 29
Catholic Relief Services aid convoy comes under attack in Ethiopia

Catholic relief convoy attacked in Ethiopia, Kazakhstan abolishes death penalty, South African archbishop condemns killing of nine women, and more in this week’s Catholic world news roundup.

Oct 29
AI companies are at risk of making Silicon Valley’s harmful mistakes all over again

Years ago, Facebook's lack of care for global communities made them complicit in a genocide. AI companies risk making the same mistakes.

Oct 29
In 2014, scientists compared EPAS1 DNA from 40 Tibetans and 40 Han Chinese and linked a high-altitude adaptation to Denisovan-like ancestry. 12 years later, the finding traced the genetic gift to an interbreeding event about 48,700 years ago

In 2014, scientists found a remarkable clue in Tibetan DNA. They compared the EPAS1 gene in 40 Tibetans and 40 Han Chinese and uncovered a genetic adaptation linked to life at extreme altitude. The story did not end there. Twelve years later, researchers trac…