Brazilian cinema has received strong global attention recently, with films like “I’m Still Here” and “The Secret Agent” ...
For years now, the north of Cameroon has been dealing with both separatist and militant insurgencies. The violence has displaced hundreds of thousands of people and the UN reports it has impacted the ...
A G7 meeting on the environment kicked off in Paris yesterday, but in an effort to avoid a dispute with the Trump administration, two words were barred from the agenda: “climate” and “change.” Also, ...
Temperature readings jump dramatically, right after someone bets a lot of money that it will be a hot day. What could explain it? A police investigation into apparent tampering with weather sensors at ...
Representatives from over 50 countries are meeting in Colombia to discuss how to transition away from fossil fuels. Laura Ballesteros is among the attendees. She’s a member of the Mexican Chamber of ...
Increasingly, European military readiness is bound up with its ability to respond to rapidly developing technology, such as drones. And the Ukrainian experience is showing that in this field, smaller, ...
Viragezero is a Swiss super group in Geneva. All five musicians got together after having success with other bands in the city’s vibrant music scene. As they get ready to hit the road and play summer ...
A meeting of the G7 nations on the environment kicked off in Paris yesterday, but two words were barred from the agenda: “climate” and “change.” France’s ecology minister said all the ministers wanted ...
A rain bomb is an enormous amount of rain, dumped practically all at once, by hurricane-force winds blowing directly into the ground. Rain bombs can be deadly and they’re really hard to predict. “Rain ...
Singer-songwriter Melly comes from a state with a long tradition in Brazilian music, but faces her own challenges. At age 24 ...
The late Kim Il Sung — the founding dictator of North Korea's communist regime — is forever enshrined as the country's ...
A 1995 law in the Philippines dictated that all salt sold in the country had to be iodized because of iodine deficiency among Filipinos. That led to the closing of many artisanal salt making ...