As artificial intelligence reshapes global power, the US and Gulf states are forging a new strategic partnership built on chips, data centres, and digital infrastructure
By now, it has become clear that the means to end the COVID-19 pandemic will reach people in poor countries far later than they will get to people in wealthy ones. Only one of the 29 poorest…
The mission had gone smoothly from start to finish. “Thanks for flying SpaceX,” an engineersaidas the spaceship splashed back down to Earth, prompting laughs in the mission-control room. SpaceX’s…
The coronavirus pandemic has, and continues to affect almost every industry worldwide, including the publishing industry where widespread impacts have left publishers, writers, and readers wondering…
The day before President Joe Biden’s inauguration,the United Statescrossed a tragic milestone, marking 400,000 deaths from COVID-19. Biden has since cautioned that half a million American lives could…
Even in a year of horrendous suffering, what is unfolding inBrazilstands out. In the rainforest city ofManaus, home to 2 million people, bodies are reportedly being dropped into mass gravesas quickly…
BGI Group, the world's largest genomics company, has worked with China's military on research that ranges from mass testing for respiratory pathogens to brain science, a Reuters review of research,…
In an interview with Foreign Policy, the famed political scientist Francis Fukuyama revisits his view of liberal democracy as the end of ideological progression. He reveals that “the end of history…
The Middle East is pinning its hopes on the vaccine rollouts for an imminent economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic hit a region already battered by conflicts and economic turmoil.
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Once again, the COVID-19 health message is getting muddled. Even as officials and scientists urge the public to get vaccinated, they warn that after vaccination, we’ll still have to go on isolating…
President Joe Biden was absolutely correct when he said “the world is watching all of us today,” as he delivered his inaugural address Wednesday from the very spot where a mob stormed the Capitol two…
An Israeli diplomat recently told Lebanese Shiites that Israel did not see them as the enemy, but it is a difficult argument to make given the death and destruction. Is there a better way?