Tag: global affairs
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Artificial intelligence may be making some jobs obsolete but it has given a new lease of life to one group of people who play an unglamorous but critical role in… more ›
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In the past few years, several other online sari retailers have popped up in Pakistan, including Lahore-based Saareeka and Karachi-based Haseen Saree by Sidra. Lahore-based writer and sari aficionado Mina… more ›
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Across Asia, tech startups are taking food otherwise destined for landfill and providing discounted meals through mobile phone apps. About a third of food is lost or wasted every year… more ›
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Rumors that the polio vaccine causes sterility in children circulate not just in Pakistan but also in many parts of Africa. To outsiders, these rumors might appear to be the… more ›
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The war in Ukraine has cut Russia off from much of the Western world. Barraged by sanctions, denounced in international media, and ostracized from global cultural events, Russians are feeling… more ›
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Russian private military security contractors (PMSCs) are pivotal players in ongoing proxy wars in the Greater Middle East and its periphery. Their covert operations—real and imagined—are also critical in shaping… more ›
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The second of a three-part series charting a decade of change; how music, literature, the arts and film broke new ground in the Arab world of the 1960s. The 1960s… more ›
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A global coalition initiated by the Government of India, Mission Innovation, and RMI announced today the winners of the Global Cooling Prize, an international innovation competition to develop super-efficient and… more ›