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
By Courtney Wise For today’s tweens and teens, it’s almost the worst thing that could happen, and at the worst time: Australia has implemented a youth ban on social media, just before the start of a 6-week holiday. This week, more than 1 million Australians under 16 lost their accounts on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, mere days
By Monique Taylor China’s decision to suspend the rollout of stablecoins in Hong Kong has exposed the limits of its financial experimentation under the ‘one country two systems’ framework. The intervention illustrates a core principle of China’s political economy that monetary and payments innovation must remain under the close supervision of central authorities. Stablecoins are
