The world faces yet another shock. The war in the Middle East is upending lives and livelihoods in the region and beyond. It is also dimming the outlook for many economies that had only just shown ...

Commemorating the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the United Nations General Assembly passed a landmark resolution, introduced by Ghana, ...

It’s been a year since President Donald Trump announced widespread tariffs on many U.S. trading partners, a move he billed as “Liberation Day.” Today, a majority of Americans are skeptical of his ...

The great powers that built and sustained the free trade system now have other priorities. This puts most emerging market and developing economies in a difficult position. The United States and China ...

April 24, 2026 • The European Union on Thursday approved a $106-billion loan package to help Ukraine meet its economic and military needs for two years, ending months of political deadlock. April 23, ...

The ultra-rich and major corporations are destroying the planet and profiting from it. This Earth Day, urge Congress to make rich polluters pay their fair share. Oxfam partners are trying to get food, ...

The U.S.-China trade war, which began during Trump’s first term, has reverberated across the global economy. But experts say fully decoupling the world’s two largest economies is likely impossible.

Funded by the Flanders UNESCO Trustfund (FUT), the Netherlands Funds in Trust (NFiT), and the UNESCO Heritage Emergency Fund, the UNESCO Sites Navigator is the dedicated Geographic Information System ...

Chichén Itzá, "the mouth of the well of the Itzás," was likely the most important city in the Yucatán from the 10th to the 12th centuries. Evidence indicates that the site was first settled as early ...

Abstract: According to research, the vast majority of road accidents (90%) are the result of human error, with only a small percentage (2%) being caused by malfunctions in the vehicle. Smart vehicles ...

Abstract: Distributed optimization provides a framework for deriving distributed algorithms for a variety of multi-robot problems. This tutorial constitutes the first part of a two-part series on ...

April 24, 2026 • Scientists say they've made a key breakthrough that would allow robots to figure out complex tasks on their own, but experts say it raises questions about how much risk comes with ...