Новости за 19.02.2024

On February 14, Indonesia held a heated presidential election involving Prabowo Subianto, Anies Rasyid Baswedan, and Ganjar Pranowo. After his fourth attempt, Prabowo, as predicted by several quick counts, could take his chance by getting over 50% of the total votes. His vice, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, who has been a “Nepo Baby” and the son of President Jokowi, was forecasted to be the biggest factor in Prabowo’s win. Among Ganjar and Anies, Prabowo committed to continue Jokowi’s policy. He says... Читать дальше...

By Wanjiru Njoya

Natural rights are often regarded with deep suspicion by lawyers and economists, who are wary of the wild and extravagant demands framed in the language of human rights. A good example is the United Nation’s list of fundamental human rights, which Antony Flew derides as absurd in “Could There Be Universal Natural Rights?”:

“A right to social security” (Article 22) . . . “the right to . . . periodic holidays with pay” (Article 24) . . . “the right to a standard... Читать дальше...

By Baria Alamuddin

Intensifying regional conflict is being fueled by a raging war of words as extremist Israeli leaders relentlessly beat the drums of war against Lebanon. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant pledged to intensify operations against Hezbollah, warning that Israel could attack to a depth of 50 kilometers “toward Beirut and anywhere else.”

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah reciprocated with a threat that Hezbollah’s “precision missiles” could target any location from... Читать дальше...

By Yogesh Joshi

It has been almost five years since India conducted air strikes inside Pakistani territory in Balakot in response to the attack on Indian security forces in Pulwama in Kashmir. The deadly terrorist strike on 15 February 2019, which claimed the lives of 44 security personnel, triggered a major military crisis between South Asia’s two nuclear-armed adversaries. The crisis and its culmination have changed Indo-Pakistan’s nuclear and conventional dynamics significantly.

Increasingly, the Biden administration links a Gaza ceasefire and a prisoner exchange to broader regional objectives, including Saudi recognition of Israel and the semblance of a pathway to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

By Imtiaz Gul

On 8 February 2024, millions of Pakistanis emphatically responded through the vote in the general elections to months of repression and the systematic persecution of former prime minister Imran Khan and his party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), turning out to vote against the country’s powerful military establishment.

The majority of Pakistan’s nearly 60 million voters delivered a stinging rebuke to the parties of the status quo led by ex-premier Nawaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari... Читать дальше...

I apologize for beginning this article with a graph. But this is a very important one. It shows corporate profits after taxes, from 1946 through the third quarter of 2023 (the most recent data available). 

When Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, it focused on embedding the civil rights of the formerly enslaved in the Constitution. But the framers of the amendment also included a clause meant to keep those who served the Confederacy from holding public office.

It sometimes seems impossible to understand how a rational human being can persist in a course of action when he sees clear signs over and over again that his actions lead only to disaster after disaster. Yet that is exactly what Pharaoh (King Rameses) of Egypt does; because the God of the Hebrews has hardened his heart. Many people are disturbed by the often repeated remark in Exodus that God hardened the heart of Pharaoh, so Pharaoh would not let the Jewish People go free no matter how many plagues befell Egypt. Читать дальше...

Africa’s data science ecosystem has the potential to drive transformative scientific research and healthcare advancements.

The reproduction of giant sea spiders in Antarctica has been largely unknown to researchers for more than 140 years, until now. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientists traveled to the remote continent and saw first-hand the behaviors of these mysterious creatures, and their findings could have wider implications for marine life and ocean ecosystems in Antarctica and around the world.

Floating offshore wind farms are developed to harness the high potential of offshore wind energy, where wind blows steadier and stronger than on land. The TAILWIND project, launched in January 2024, will deliver advanced station-keeping technologies, designed to maintain the position of floating offshore wind energy farms through innovative mooring lines and anchoring systems. The development of these technologies is critical to open new paths towards the global effectiveness and sustainability of FOW farms... Читать дальше...

A few years ago, MIT researchers invented a cryptographic ID tag that is several times smaller and significantly cheaper than the traditional radio frequency tags (RFIDs) that are often affixed to products to verify their authenticity.

The Space Climate Research Group at the University of Oulu, Finland has been studying the effects of energetic particle precipitation from space, more commonly known as the aurora borealis or Northern Lights, on winter weather variations for quite some time. The aurora borealis is not only a beautiful light phenomenon, but also involves chemical changes that lead to ozone depletion high in the polar stratosphere in winter.