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The challenge for Western policymakers is to avoid viewing Russian activism in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa through an exclusively zero-sum lens. The region’s political disarray, complexities, and especially the unpredictability of local rulers all present built-in buffers to Russian influence—as they do to all external players.

1 1Key Laboratory of Mountain Hazards and Surface Process, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China 2China-Pakistan Joint Research Center on Earth Sciences, CAS-HEC, Islamabad, Pakistan 3China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group Co. Ltd., Chengdu, China 4University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 5Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States The southeastern Tibetan Plateau has been deeply dissec...

The reason: more jobs becoming automated as technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics take over the workplace.

Bureaucrats appointed based on merit are not necessarily more professional or autonomous than those who have been, for instance, 'politically installed'....

Sargasssum brings another ‘golden tide’ on our shorelines Rahanna Juman, Institute of Marine Affairs For yet another year, massive quantities of sargassum are seen washing up along our coasts and is causing concern among fisherfolk and other beach users. This new source of sargassum is now linked to climate change and ocean eutrophication, and these are likely to continue supporting significant sargassum blooms into the future. As such, annual mass influxes of sargassum into the Caribbean S...

April 13, 2021 Ossicones are columnar or conical skin-covered bone structures on the heads of giraffe and okapi ( Fig 1). Giraffe ossicones consist of a bone core covered with skin and attached to the skull with connective tissue. The bone, skin, and connective tissue of ossicones are all living growing tissues with blood vessels and nerves. All male and female giraffes have a pair of ossicones on the parietal bones of the skull. Males also usually have a single ossicone on the frontal bone. At...

Highlights U.S. District Judge William F. Jung of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida dismissed a putative class action brought against Southwest Airlines Co. Board of Trustees in which the plaintiff alleged that the continuing healthcare election notice was untimely and lacked information required under COBRA. The District Court concluded that the plaintiffs failure to identify a concrete and particularized injury that was fairly traceable to any alleged defect in the CO...

All in a Days Work Wind power plants and their associated workforce affect the local and surrounding communities in ways both concrete and indirect. These impacts vary from spending at local businesses to the role that these companies and workers play in the quality of life within the communities. A new NREL report details the positive long-term economic impact wind plant operation and maintenance workers bring to their communities, providin...

The impact of the institutionalisation of the elderly in Pakistan PHOTO: FILE The Catholic Church governs three shelter homes in Karachi, where the residents pay minimal fees In the 21 st century, ageing of the population is a significant demographic occurrence and a distinctive trend seen universally (Ameh et al., 2014; Hermalin, Ofstedel, & Tesfai, 2006; Wandera, Kwagala, & Ntozi, 2015). Among the continents, Asia has the most rapidly increasing elderly population (Powell & Khan, 2013), with...