Automation and technology, along with a do-it-yourself culture, contribute to greater productivity and fewer jobs, with some developments more disruptive for labor and select industries than others. Countries, particularly the most developed, must consider the prospect of running out of jobs, and...
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As increasing number of countries use drones international agreements on their use could reduce misunderstandings and conflict. While only three nations – the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel – have used armed drones, more than 75 others including China, Japan and Australia have drone...
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The United States is granting visitor visas at a lower rate to applicants from around the world, according to Politico’s analysis of State Department data – a trend suggesting that government officials have adopted President Donald Trump’s hardline attitude toward immigration, legal or otherwise....
World population nearly quadrupled during the 20th century, and in early March, US National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair told the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday that by 2025 it could grow by another 1 billion people. That would put pressure on the global environment as well as on...
Growing pains: In countries like Indonesia, population is growing fast, while in Japan and Europe it's in decline
NEW YORK: The dangers of population explosion hit newspaper headlines as the US intelligence chief warns about it. Indeed the world...
Global problems like climate change require leaders with vision who move beyond narrow, short-term interests. YaleGlobal is among the many urging global solutions for such global problems. Jakub Grygiel, international relations professor, describes that goal as a “figment of the imagination of the...
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A narrative common in the West often pits Christianity and Judaism against Islam. It was not so in an earlier era. Christianity was a militant force during the 16th century. By 1550, Portugal ruled India’s best western ports, and India became a refuge for Iberian Jewish families, also known as New...
Islamic shelter for Jewish medicine man: Garcia da Orta, Jewish doctor from Portugal whose image is engraved on a Portuguese coin (top) found shelter from the Inquisition in the court of Sultan of Golconda in Southern India, Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah...
With urbanization and a swelling global middle class come enormous amounts of waste. Many governments and companies respond to this challenge with sustainable solutions including recycling. Organic material – food, in particular – is the largest part of household waste in Europe, Asia and the...
Ocean of plastic: Singapore makes a determined effort to recycle electronic waste; international NGOs examine floating plastic in the Pacific
NEW HAVEN: The developed world is drowning in garbage with rising consumerism. Global urbanization and a...
The number of NGOs continues to multiply worldwide, and competition for funding is intense. US-based foundations that contribute to international endeavors tend to promote human rights and democracy. But recipient programs in China are tightly monitored and controlled by the government, explains...
Top-down help: Chinese Minister of Health Chen Zhu (left) shakes hands with Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, while signing an agreement on tuberculosis prevention and treatment
HONG KONG: Since the end of the Cold War...
