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Imagery of fractured terrain on Venus, Mars, and Jupiter’s moon Europa pinpoints environments influenced by water.
Radicalisation and violent extremism remain among the most persistent and destabilising threats to global peace and security. Despite the military defeat of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS), terrorist organisations around the world continue to attract recruits and inspire attacks. According to Human Rights Watch, as of 2023, more than 40,000 foreigners accused of ISIS links […]
A strange signal from a distant planet has scientists buzzing—and what the Webb Telescope found in its atmosphere could be the biggest clue yet that we’re not alone.
NASA’s Perseverance rover has struck a geological gold mine on Mars, uncovering ancient rock samples—including one possibly dating back 3.9 billion years.
Scientists have just pulled off a quantum feat once thought impossible — and they did it without freezing everything to the brink of absolute zero. A strange paradox from 1935 just got a real-world twist.
It lived 94 million years ago… and it wasn’t supposed to be there. A newly discovered dinosaur fossil is rewriting evolutionary maps.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is staging a charm offensive in the region while US President Donald Trump inflicts massive tariff pain.Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Cambodia on Thursday for the last leg of his week-long tour of Southeast Asia, which included earlier stops in Vietnam and Malaysia. Although his visit was scheduled months ago, it fell at an opportune moment for Beijing, with the international trade system in disarray because of the actions of US President Donald Trump. On April 2, Trump launched his tariff onslaught, unveiling steep “reciprocal” duties on goods coming into the US from most of its trading partners, including 49% tariffs on products from Cambodia, 46% on those coming from Vietnam and between 20%-30% on most other Southeast Asian countries. The tariff turmoil has hit trade and investment flows as well as financial markets. Most countries, including in Southeast Asia, are currently predicting a major global economic downturn. Several agencies have cut their growth forecasts
The comments from the Russian Foreign Ministry come after Germany’s presumptive next Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he was open to delivering the long-range missiles to Ukraine.The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday issued a stark warning to Germany over the possibility of long-range Taurus missiles being deployed in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that Russia would treat Taurus missile strikes on its “critical transport infrastructure” as “direct” German involvement in the Ukrainian conflict. Germany’s presumptive next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, said this past weekend that he is open to delivering the Taurus missiles to Ukraine provided it is done with coordination with European partners. European officials such as Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp and Polish Prime Minister Radoslaw Sikorski welcomed Merz’s comments on Taurus deliveries during a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday. The Taurus KEPD-350 is capab
Russian authorities have removed the Taliban from their list of terrorist organizations. The Kremlin can now sign agreements with Afghanistan — and also improve its relations with the transitional government in Syria.In a closed session on April 17, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation “temporarily” lifted Russia’s ban on the Taliban. The request came from the office of the prosecutor general. This motion was based on a decree President Vladimir Putin had issued a year ago, making it possible for the Taliban, an ultraconservative political and religious movement in Afghanistan, to be removed from Russia’s list of terrorist organizations. The Taliban regained power in Kabul in 2021 after the withdrawal of international coalition forces from Afghanistan. According to Russian law, any Taliban member entering Russia must be arrested and could face up to 20 years in prison on charges of engaging in terrorist activity. In practice, though, no Taliban member has been detained on entering Russia since 2016. Th