By Kate Morrissey • Capital & Main The line of people outside the office for Mexico’s refugee agency formed before 7 a.m., stretching down the sidewalk on a September morning in Tapachula, a small city near the border with Guatemala. “Strong Cuban coffee!” a woman advertised in Spanish, walking up and down the line. Haitian women sat
The government of South Sudan has alleged that aircraft operating under contract to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) have been involved in smuggling natural resources and were fitted with undisclosed surveillance equipment. Foreign Minister Monday Semaya Kumba made the claims during a briefing for diplomats in the capital, Juba, on Saturday. He stated
By KADUGLI/NEW YORK A drone strike hit a United Nations facility in war-torn Sudan on Saturday, killing six peacekeepers, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. The strike hit the U.N. peacekeeping logistics base in the city of Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan State, he said in a statement. Eight other peacekeepers were wounded. All the victims
By Uditha Devapriya In his lecture on US-China rivalry and its implications for the Indo-Pacific, organised by the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Professor Neil DeVotta began with an exposition on The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Paul Kennedy’s superb work on the trajectory of empires, the reasons for their rise and their later decline. DeVotta
By Courtney Wise Greetings, MindSite News Readers. In today’s newsletter, researchers look at the impact of consuming too many short-form videos like TikToks and Instagram reels, so in case you’ve ever asked yourself, Is brain rot real?, they’re getting closer to an answer. In other news, Australia’s youth social media ban takes effect. How music therapy in
