Peru is inaugurating a huge commercial port built by China, which is expected to become a game changer in the region. Also, a ...

Illegal mining is widespread in South Africa. Miners break into derelict mineshafts, oftentimes searching for leftover gold. Organized crime exploits and controls their behavior. Now, above one ...

Meet Daisy, a British AI conversationalist made to sound like an older woman who’s not very tech savvy. She’s been deployed to take up phone scammers’ time — and collect information about new scams.

European Union regulators have charged Meta with giving itself an unfair advantage by bundling Marketplace into Facebook’s wider social network. Meta has vowed to appeal the ruling. Eva Galperin talks ...

Peru is hosting Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders today, including the presidents of Brazil, China and the US. But the meeting will likely be eclipsed by a major event happening tonight in ...

The Al-Hadba minaret was part of the centuries old Great Mosque of al-Nuri when it was destroyed in 2017 by ISIS. Now a multi-year rebuilding effort involving the United Arab Emirates, UNESCO and ...

The Biden administration will begin sending US military contractors to Ukraine. This policy reversal was first reported late last week, and signals a shift in US willingness to support Ukraine’s ...

In South Africa, tiger farms are harvesting the body parts of the big cats for sale on the black market — and they might be the biggest farms of their kind outside of Asia. That’s according to a new ...

A new study has found that private aviation is booming. Experts say these flights often cluster around big international events, including the UN’s climate summits. This year’s COP 29 in Baku, ...

Scientists have discovered the world’s largest coral — so big it can be seen from space. The mystery of the spy whale in Norway has been solved. He was a naughty whale who ran away from a Russian ...

A wave of misleading videos pushing for Okinawa’s independence from mainland Japan is part of a wider disinformation campaign aimed at realigning the islands with China. In a recent investigation, the ...

After the rains in Valencia, Spain, came the political storm. It turns out that Valencia’s center-right president, Carlos Mazón, is a climate change skeptic who could have acted more quickly to warn ...