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.
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
When Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro repeatedly downplayed the threat of COVID-19, Brazilians were understandably confused about the gravity of the pandemic.
Late last year, Colombia’s federal police arrested Diego Optra, a crime boss who heads a ruthless gang called La Local in the port city of Buenaventura.
At least one foreign leader still believes outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump’s desperate claims that the election was rigged.
All during 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic swept around the world, another novel virus with devastating long-term effects spread unnoticed worldwide
At 8:45 pm, five gunmen stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery, an upscale establishment in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
Central Asia was long a digital backwater
The world has learned much about the devastating impact of COVID-19 on human health and well-being. It is also waking up to the pandemic’s positive effects on the planet’s atmosphere, ecosystems, and biodiversity.
What remains of the global, open internet came under attack this month.
Across the United States, the debate over the future of policing is gathering steam.
Horrifying videos of police officers suffocating and shooting Black people in the United States have generated outrage around the world. The killings also triggered demonstrations in thousands of cities and towns in the United States and across the globe, temporarily displacing the COVID-19 pandemic from headlines
The coronavirus pandemic is exposing the quality of governments around the world. Many national leaders have failed the test—in contrast to the leaders of regions and cities
To say that COVID-19 changes everything is already a cliché. But it’s also true.
Cities are at the center of this pandemic, as they have been during so many plagues in history.
Published in Foreign Policy By Robert Muggah The world is convulsed by the novel coronavirus, but that is not the only pathogen that afflicts us. Criminal violence is also endemic, contagious, and highly virulent. More than 464,000 people were killed in homicides in 2017 (the last
The fate of the Amazon is intertwined with the fate of the world. If 20-25 percent of its tree cover is cut down, scientists estimate, the basin’s capacity to absorb carbon dioxide would be severely compromised, taking out of operation one of the world’s largest carbon sinks.
One of the world’s most homicidal countries just registered the sharpest overall decline of lethal violence in its history
The world is less violent today than at virtually any other time in human history
Brazil could play a critical role in promoting stability in an uncertain world. Worryingly, the country is nowhere to be seen.
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