Details emerge of how a doctor based in Florida, US, planned assassination of Haitian President Moïse
Police in Haiti have arrested a man of Haitian origin, reportedly a doctor in Florida, accusing him of flying into the country on a private jet and working with the assassins who killed President Jovenel Moïse last week. On Sunday, Haiti’s police chief Léon Charles identified the man as Christian...
Ordinary Chinese drive ecotourism, central government provides incentives to create jobs
Terry Townshend, a wildlife conservationist and biodiversity adviser to Beijing’s government, has since 2017 been training yak herders in Qinghai in the kinds of skills that ecologists hope could be a model for sustainable development since 2017. In 2016, he met the official responsible for Zaduo, a county in Qinghai...
Tigray crisis: UN agency apathetic as trucks ferry Ethiopian refugees to Libyan horror camps
A donor letter that highlights the plight of Tigrayan refugees in Sudan lays the blame more squarely on UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), which it accuses of having failed to ensure the presence of experienced, senior staff members in the camps and transit sites. The staffing problems have led...
Deepfake technology concerns trigger urgent search for answers among journalists, crime investigators
Deepfake video methods can digitally alter a person’s lip movements to match words that they never said. As part of an effort to grow awareness about such technologies through art, the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality created a fake video showing former US President Richard Nixon giving a speech about...
Scientists probe immune systems of bats to fathom how they host lethal viruses
For several weeks in March, Arinjay Banerjee would eat breakfast at 6am and then drive the empty roads of Toronto to a restricted-access lab. Then he’d ready himself for work, donning three layers of gloves, a helmeted mask kitted with an air-purifying respirator, and a surgical-style gown. The interlocked doors...
