China launched the Shenzhou 23 spacecraft with three astronauts heading to its space station, including one set to stay in space for a year. The spacecraft blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China. The much-anticipated launch comes as China prepares for its first crewed lunar landing by 2030. The crew is set to conduct dozens of science and application projects, state media said. They are also expected to complete an in-orbit rotation with th

It was the latest tragedy in this part of the Mediterranean Sea. The Libyan coast is one of the main departure points for migrants from North Africa trying to reach European shores for a better life there. They are packed by smugglers into small and unsafe boats, with thousands dying during the perilous sea journey. Libya has in recent years emerged as the dominant transit point for migrants fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East, even though the country was pl

Against the backdrop of conflict, and despite reservations among some European leaders, the EU has been quietly seeking to reopen communications with Moscow even as it doubles down on its support for Kyiv. President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, has tried to cut out Europe and Kyiv and negotiate Ukraine’s future with Washington. “In any future scenario, the EU has specific interests that will need to be defended, therefore it is important to have established diplomatic channels

Police officers move past Ikshana, a mobile surveillance van, parked at the ongoing protest site, days after thousands of the supporters of India’s Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) marched towards parliament demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over National Eligibility. The surveillance controversy erupted during [the] student protest over exam paper leaks, when demonstrators posted pictures on social media of a mobile police surveillance van equippe

San Francisco-based Raffi Krikorian, the chief technology officer at Mozilla, which runs the Firefox browser, switched to Chinese AI startup Moonshot’s Kimi K3 for many of his day-to-day activities within days of the new, powerful model’s launch. Their popularity has frustrated some U.S. tech giants, but short of an outright ban, they’re likely to continue to appeal to independent software developers in the U.S. and elsewhere. The rapid rise of cutting-edge Chinese AI models

The annual ranking assesses 173 cities worldwide across stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure to identify those offering the highest quality of life. Vienna, Melbourne, Sydney and Zurich rounded out this year’s top five, reflecting both Europe’s enduring dominance and Australia’s continued strong showing. Taking the top spot for the second year in a row, the Danish capital [Copenhagen] earned perfect scores in stability, education and i

Maryam Aminu was hardly surprised when the last of her six children was diagnosed with malnutrition in April for a second time. She was barely feeding the 18-month-old regularly, let alone with nutritious foods. Northern Nigeria, one of the world’s poorest regions, is already under pressure from an insurgency crisis. Now, the conflict in the Middle East has worsened food security for millions of people living in poverty, especially children. If the war in the Middle East cont

Picture this: A gas station customer pulls out a wad of bills to pay for a fill-up. The cashier refuses the money, explaining that the station’s bank has stopped accepting notes and coins as deposits because it already is drowning in cash. In most places, cash is king. But in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, having too much is gumming up the machinery of daily life. The Palestinian banking system has more Israeli shekels than it can manage. As a result, paper money has gotten

The practice, many legal historians believe, dates to the 1600s and 1700s, with European rulers encouraging migration to the expanding American colonies. Those colonists, though, wanted any of their children born overseas to retain European citizenship. So even as the colonial boundaries shifted “you’re a citizen as long as you’re born within the domain of the king, of the monarch,” said César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, a law professor at Ohio State University. “But the leg

Defense & Tech by The Jerusalem Post understands that the system is David’s Sling by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. In 2019 Rafael is believed to have pulled its surface-to-air missile defense system from a Swiss tender following pressure from the United States. David’s Sling is designed to intercept tactical ballistic missiles, medium- to long-range rockets, and cruise missiles fired at ranges between 40 to 300 km. According to a report by Switzerland’s Neue Zürcher Zeitun

A recent poll found that roughly half of American Jews under 35 support resolving the conflict by creating a single binational state spanning Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, with a government elected by both Jews and Palestinians. The Jewish Voter Resource Center poll, released May 21, found that among non-Orthodox Jews under 35, support was slightly higher. The majority of Palestinians, for their part, see the idea as a surrender of their dreams of statehood and are deeply s

In a report, the commission—which last year concluded Israel had committed genocide in Gaza—found that Israeli military operations have continued causing “unprecedented death, injury and trauma” to Palestinian children. The Israeli government has repeatedly denied committing genocide, and officials swiftly decried [the] UN findings. The Foreign Ministry called it “a propaganda piece as outrageous as its previous ones,” while Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nati

Saudi Arabia’s permanent representative to the UN, Abdulaziz M. Alwasil, called for stronger international cooperation, expertise exchange and investment in capacity building to prevent terrorist groups from exploiting artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. Adam Hadley, executive director of Tech Against Terrorism, told The Media Line that the lack of a terrorism-specific AI benchmark was the reason the organization built one. According to Tech Against Terro

Bryan Johnson, the biohacker who says he wants to extend human life for as long as possible, is living with an autoimmune condition in which his stomach is “eating itself,” the tech founder shared on social media. Johnson, who was diagnosed with autoimmune hypothyroidism at age 21, said that this condition, called autoimmune gastritis (AIG), was only diagnosed recently. Johnson eats a mainly vegetarian diet, and many vegetarians can struggle to get enough iron, as it’s harder

Pakistan has launched two new overland trade corridors through Iran and China, offering Central Asian countries alternative routes to Pakistani ports after Islamabad closed its main transit crossings with Afghanistan because of security concerns. The new corridors provide Central Asian countries, including Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, with overland access to the Arabian Sea through Pakistan while bypassing Afghanistan. Uzbekistan has already begun using the Gabd-Rimdan route to

Jews faced government harassment in 69 countries and faced harassment by private individuals, groups, or organizations in 92 countries in 2023, according to research by Pew Research Center. Overall, 55 countries had elevated (high or very high) levels of social hostilities involving religion in 2023, up from 45 the previous year. Spain’s SHI score increased from moderate to high, at least in part due to harassment of Muslims and Jews in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks. Pew Res

Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodríguez thanked Israel for sending “a highly specialized and professional group” after the twin earthquakes that recently shook the country. Israel jumped into action immediately, with the country’s Foreign Ministry, Health Ministry, KKL-JNF, SID Israel, and others, including IsraAID, sending delegations days after the quakes. The specialized team that the country’s acting president was referring to was specifically the 30-member IDF dele

A delegation from the Afghan Taliban met with European Union staff in Brussels for closed-door talks that focused on diplomatic services and “dignified returns” of Afghans to the isolated and war-ravaged nation, said a Taliban official. “This was a historic visit as first time ever that delegation from Islamic Emirate visited the E.U. and held talks with member states in Brussels,” said Abdul Qahar Balkhi, a spokesperson for the Taliban Ministry of Foreign Affairs who led the

Here is a look at what the European Union is contemplating to bolster its energy security and minimize the impact of future conflicts as it turns to Gulf states and India. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has expressed renewed interest in what is known as the India-Middle-East-Europe Economic Corridor. While the EU itself has supported IMEC through a memorandum of understanding, only a handful of its 27 member states are formal signatories. But behind the sc

In a landmark speech to the National Assembly, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero unveiled 176 measures aimed at rolling back the state’s role in the economy and attracting investment in everything from banking to tourism and agriculture. Under the reforms, foreign investors are no longer required to form joint ventures with the state, large private enterprises will be authorized, and both Cuban and foreign investors will be allowed to acquire stakes in state companies. Daniel Tor