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TWENTY-FIVE countries, including two of the worlds most populous, have halved their poverty indices, but lack of post-coronavirus pandemic data obscures the situation facing almost a billion people worldwide, a new United Nations-University of Oxford study has found.

Cluster bombs that the US military dropped in Laos 50 years ago turned out to be the biggest challenge to the construction of the China-Laos high-speed railway.

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Senior police officials from Ukraine began a training program Monday in Tokyo on ways to identify war dead, hoping to learn from Japan's experience in carrying out mass autopsies after its 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster. During the five-day program through Friday, the 10 Ukrainian&#...

Preparatory work for the transfer of a million barrels of oil from a decaying floating supertanker onto a rescue vessel off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea has begun, the United Nations said. The transfer should be completed by early August, allaying fears of a potentially catastrophic oil spill. “The replacement vessel Nautica…

China is transitioning from one major global project to another. How are they different?

As one of the world's leading institutions for ICT technology, the ITU is naturally highly interested in artificial intelligence and the increasingly prevalent new generation of generative...

Senior police officials from Ukraine begin a training program in Tokyo on ways to identify war dead, hoping to learn from Japan's experience in carrying out mass autopsies after its 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

Ameca, Desdemona, Grace and Sophia were among the more than 50 humanoid robots that attended the UN-driven AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.

The UN's International Telecommunication Union hosted the world's first news conference featuring humanoid social robots.