The artificial intelligence race is gathering pace, and the stakes could not be higher.

Whether it was gold, diamonds, or iron, the history of Brazil has been shaped for centuries by the hunt for minerals.

Nicaragua’s crackdown on the political opposition, free press, and civil society is intensifying.

Ravaged by a pandemic, a brutal war in Europe, and rising social unrest over unaffordable food and fuel, the world looks anything but safe

Russia’s motives for invading Ukraine vary from security fears to revisionist historical claims that a Ukrainian national identity does not exist

Jutting out from the second-largest continent, the Horn of Africa is one of the world’s regions most vulnerable to climate change

Cities are the front line of climate change as perpetrators, victims, and problem-solvers

Yet now more than ever, humanity’s collective future hinges on effective cooperation

The U.S. military responded less than 48 hours later with an unmanned airstrike in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province

At first sight, the global vaccination rollout is mesmerizing

Nuclear weapons are without doubt the most indiscriminate and inhumane weapons ever conceived

If we didn’t know already, the COVID-19 pandemic has driven home the fact that data is the most important strategic asset of the 21st century

Cities around the world are getting smarter.

All coastal cities are vulnerable to climate change

One of the many injustices of climate change is it hits the world’s poorest countries hardest