The number of people receiving combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV/AIDS is increasing in every region of the world, tripling in the last 12 months in both sub-Saharan Africa and Asia – the two areas most affected by the disease. According to this newly released report by the WHO and...
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Voters select candidates for many reasons including economic and security issues. Women make up the majority of registered voters in many nations, yet large numbers support candidates who display misogynistic streaks. Far-right candidates are gaining traction. “From the parliamentary gains of far-...
The United Kingdom, investing £200 million, expects to unveil a demonstration nuclear fusion model by 2025 and to use such reactors to supply energy by 2040. Nuclear fusion relies on heating hydrogen atoms at high temperatures to replicate the processes of the Sun on Earth, explains Matt McGrath...
Conflicts in the Middle East attract interventions by regional powers. The Turkish parliament’s approval of troop deployment to assist one side in the Libyan civil conflict reveals some themes, explains Mustafa Batman, an International Fox Fellow at Yale University. Turkey’s involvement in Libya,...
Changing partners: Libyan General Khalifa Haftar plans against Turkish intervention; his backer Vladimir Putin now on the opposing side of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
NEW HAVEN: Conflicts in the Middle East attract an entanglement of...
Economic and political concerns influence US responses to a potential slowdown in oil output from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The Trump campaign advocates for more drilling and fewer regulations to increase jobs in America’s oil-producing heartland. Not everyone would benefit...
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Uncertainty and instability threaten the global economy, and monetary stimulus by the central banks, including negative rates, is not delivering growth or confidence. So far, the United States is alone in breaking away from the pack to engage in monetary tightening and gradually lifting interest...
Globalization challenged: Terror attacks on Brussels raise doubt about global connectivity, top; China’s economic slowdown, demonstrated by idle cranes at a port, threaten global prosperity
MEDFORD: The world economy has slowed substantially, and...
Indonesia, with near 250 million people, is the world’s largest Muslim nation. The Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict in Jakarta estimates that 300 Indonesians headed to the Middle East; 100 of those have been killed and another 100 were detained and returned. “A video has been circulating...
Concern is rising in Jakarta that Indonesia could be the first Southeast Asian nation hit by an Islamic State-style attack from the 100-odd Islamic fighters who have returned from the Middle East in recent months although the fundamentalists so far...
Scientists preparing the much-awaited report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are in a quandary over data that go against the body’s broad conclusions on carbon emissions and a warming planet. In an exclusive report based on leaked documents the Associated Press says that scientists...
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