Category: International News

To the Moon and back: modern lunar exploration
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To the Moon and back: modern lunar exploration

Tokyo, Japan | Thursday 1/18/2024 Japan, whose unmanned “sniper” probe will attempt a lunar landing on Saturday, is one of many countries and private companies launching new missions to the Moon. It is a feat so far only achieved by four nations — the United States, the Soviet Union, China and most recently India — with spacecraft often...

Will AI really destroy humanity?
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Will AI really destroy humanity?

Paris, France | Tuesday 6/26/2023  The warnings are coming from all angles: artificial intelligence poses an existential risk to humanity and must be shackled before it is too late. But what are these disaster scenarios and how are machines supposed to wipe out humanity? Paperclips of doom Most disaster scenarios start in the same place: machines will...

US anti-drug policies caused Latin American ‘genocide’: Petro
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US anti-drug policies caused Latin American ‘genocide’: Petro

Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Friday 3/1/2024 US anti-drug policies have caused a “genocide” of Latin Americans, Colombia’s Gustavo Petro alleged Friday at a meeting of regional leaders on the Caribbean island of St Vincent and the GrenadinesWe have lived through a genocide of a million Latin Americans in the last half-century,” the Colombian president told...