Drought trends in the Horn of Africa are now worse than they were during the 2011 famine in which hundreds of thousands of people died. The IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center said on Wednesday that below-normal rainfall is expected during the rainy season over the next three...
While not close to the more than 100 exhibitors that came here from the US, dozens of Chinese firms are at IDEX 2023, some with prime locations on the show floor, others in a dedicated Chinese pavilion and more still in smaller booths that line concourses, advertising everything from...
Golden visa programmes offer residency permits and EU travel access in exchange for investment, but can pose risks such as money laundering and inflation of real estate prices. Despite concerns, variations of the golden visa have been adopted across Europe and in countries around the...
The research, published on Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, pushes back the age of archery in Europe by more than 40,000 years. The use of the bow-and-arrow in Africa has been documented to date back some 70,000 years. But the oldest previous evidence of archery in Europe was...
These threats were made by Alisher Mirzanabatov (лишер Мирзонаботов), the former deputy head of the dreaded Tajik secret police, the GKNB, which is modelled after the Soviet KGB. Currently, Mirzanabatov is the governor of the restive Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous province (GBAO)...
