Humanoid robots embodiment of China’s AI ambitions
Shanghai, China -- Serving craft beer, playing mahjong, stacking shelves and boxing, the dozens of humanoid robots at Shanghai's World...Technology Geostrategy
Syria says meeting with Israeli officials sought to ‘contain escalation’
Syrian diplomatic source said Saturday that a US-mediated meeting with Israeli officials in Paris this week sought to "contain the...Geostrategy
Iran guards launch naval drills near Gulf islands claimed by UAE
Tehran, Iran - Iran's Revolutionary Guards launched naval drills on Wednesday near strategic Gulf islands controlled by Iran but claimed by..."The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval exercise started Wednesday morning for the defense of the Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf," said reports.
The three islands are located near the Strait of Hormuz, the vital sea passage between the Gulf and the open ocean through which a fifth of world oil output passes.
In a warming world, is an air-conditioned future inevitable?
Washington, United States - They are ubiquitous in the United States, controversial in Europe and coveted in South Asia. As heatwaves...Air conditioning is responsible for the emission of approximately one billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
The number of air conditioners in the world, about two billion today, is set to skyrocket as temperatures and incomes rise.
Kuwait’s scorching summers a warning for heating planet
Kuwait City, Kuwait -- As the blazing summer sun beats down on Kuwait, shoppers stroll down a promenade lined with palm...Kuwait has always been hot, its dry summers fanned by the northwesterly shamal wind that also blows over Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
But in recent years, climate change has made summer peaks hotter and longer, said meteorologist Essa Ramadan, as periods of extreme heat have gone "from two weeks to about a month"
Migrants lurch between life and death in Tunisia-Libya desert
In the unbearable midday heat, a Libyan patrol near the border with Tunisia comes across a black African man collapsed...In early July, hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan African countries were driven out of the Tunisian port city of Sfax as racial tensions flared
A joint statement from United Nations agencies referred to the "unfolding tragedy" of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Tunisia's border regions
Most oil removed from decaying tanker off Yemen: UN
The Safer, a floating storage and offloading facility, has been moored around 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the port of...UN Development Programme project manager for the Safer, Mohammed Mudawi, said more than 636,000 barrels of oil had been pumped to the replacement tanker
The UN hopes the $143 million operation will eliminate the risk of an environmental disaster that it estimates would cost $20 billion to clean up
Tunisia’s president dismisses first woman PM Najla Bouden
She was appointed by the president on October 11, 2021, two and a half months after the president granted himself...Saied immediately appointed Ahmed Hachani as the new PM, who until now worked at the Tunisian central bank
The new head of government, a figure unknown to the general public, was immediately sworn in before the president
Saudi Arabia and Indonesia discuss defense and military cooperation
Jakarta, Indonesia-- Saudi Arabia and Indonesia have discussed defense and military cooperation in a meeting between Indonesian Minister of Defense...The two ministers discussed bilateral relations and military and defense cooperation, as well as other issues of common concern
The Saudi defense minister also met with heads of Indonesian defense companies who presented their latests defense products
Iraq says in touch with US over settling $10bn debt it owes Iran for gas imports
On July 11, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announced that Iraq would start paying for Iranian gas with oil, as...Iranian gas is crucial for Iraq's electricity generation, but US sanctions on Iranian oil and gas impose restrictions on how Baghdad can pay for its imports
Iraq cannot directly hand over cash to Iran, but payments must be held in a bank account and be used by Tehran to fund imports of food and medicines
Donald Trump indicted for trying to overturn 2020 US election
The former US president now faces the most serious legal threat yet as he campaigns to return to the White...The indictment charges Trump with conspiracy to defraud the US and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding
Reacting to the indictment, Trump's campaign compared his prosecution to "Nazi Germany in the 1930s"
Brazilian-Saudi Investment Forum witnesses inking of 25 MoUs
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - The Ministry of Investment organized here the Brazilian-Saudi Investment Forum, which saw the signing of many...The 25 MoUs covered petrochemicals, healthcare, defense, food, real estate, tourism, water desalination and treatment, and agriculture.
The new library will act as a central hub to connect the university’s 28 sub-libraries and will contribute towards enhancing its educational capabilities.
