Despite startling breakthroughs, the first words and signs of great apes are rarely publicly celebrated by scientists.
Month: May 2025
Each cardinal brings strengths and weaknesses, but a Vatican insider tells La Stampa that it is now clear: more time is needed.
Ukraine’s tragic geography has long made it the target of imperial ambitions, epitomized by the prize of Crimea. As the war drags on, the battle for Ukrainian sovereignty exposes not just Russia’s hunger for power — but also the West’s uneasy past and present complicity.
Israel is calling up tens of thousands of reservists as its military operations threaten to expand in Gaza and grow more significant in Syria. This escalation raises serious questions about the goals behind what has become one of the longest wars in the country’s history.
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When in doubt, outsource to the soldiers. The Kashmir debacle shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi retreating behind India’s armed forces, leaving it up to them to mop up the mess, calm the rage, and maybe even help the politician save face.
At the age of 60, you might think that friendships have weathered all storms. And yet, this period often marks a turning point. Some ties hold, others fray. For many — amid retirement, time speeding up, changing priorities — it’s time to sort things out. Should we hold on, or let go?
What’s happening today in Gaza goes beyond the bounds of human suffering, a complete eradication of dignity. The humiliation and despair has now reached a point where the living are forced to pay money for the right to bury their dead.
In this deeply personal account, journalist Ignacio Pereyra looks back on his journey through desire, fear and what a moment in Vigo some 20 years ago taught him about the silence of masculinity.
Conclave speculation, urinal innovation, “Italian brainrot”… and much more.
In Gaza, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) — which collect, store, analyze, manage and display geographic data — are helping various organizations to distribute aid, track patterns of violence and destruction, and preserve collective memory.
There is enough evidence already on the harm done by screen addiction among minors to justify banning smartphones for the entire school day, yet many schools and countries have yet to take strict action on this issue.
The first thing to remember is that Trump believes that Iran tried to assassinate him. But even if the United States and Iran have opened direct talks about the regime’s nuclear activities, it is unlikely anyone in the administration will take Tehran’s word for anything. Indeed, it may all be a set up for an inevitable U.S. military strike.
With photographs from Iran, Madrid and India, among other places.
Since the 1990s and the fall of communism in Poland, the country’s economic life has changed drastically, moving from a command economy focused on national production to a global one, which is now becoming an increasingly important player in Europe and the world. In the face of Donald Trump’s protectionist inclinations, Witold Gamoski argues that globalization is exactly what economies need to grow.
Just weeks after the massacres targeting the Alawite community, Druze populations are now being attacked by armed groups — threatening the fragile stability of Syria’s post-Assad transition.
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The quiet return of maternity fees and the black-market sale of essential documents put extra burdens on mothers as they struggle to navigate a broken system.
For Kyiv, the race to accelerate arms production capacity is especially crucial as it strives to replace the Western arms it once depended on.
Al-Azhar’s rooting of the idea of unfairness in inheritance division, based on the logic that men deserve twice as much as women, leaves women without full entitlement. One legal scholar is challenging this longstanding edict, and with it the very authority of the venerated Islamic institution.
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The United States continues to tighten restrictions on China’s access to Western technology, but the result has been to push Beijing to speed up a decoupling process that was already underway. Huawei now stands as a symbol of China’s response to the American challenge.