Author: Aidan
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Megafires are increasing with climate change
Just six days in to the northern hemisphere summer of 2023, the skyline in New York City was stained in a sepia smoke haze. It was streaming from across the border, where, what became Canada’s most widespread fires in history, were raging. And the fires did not let up for months. According to the latest…
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Arctic zombie viruses in Siberia could spark terrifying new pandemic
Humanity is facing a bizarre new pandemic threat, scientists have warned. Ancient viruses frozen in the Arctic permafrost could one day be released by Earth’s warming climate and unleash a major disease outbreak, they say. Strains of these Methuselah microbes – or zombie viruses as they are also known – have already been isolated by researchers who…
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Senegal excludes opposition leader Sonko from presidential candidate list
Senegal’s Constitutional Council on Saturday, January 20, published a final list of 20 candidates for the February 25 presidential election that excludes jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and Karim Wade, the son of former president Abdoulaye Wade. Those listed include Prime Minister Amadou Ba, chosen by President Macky Sall as his successor after Sall announced…
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Drops Out Of Presidential Race
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who entered the 2024 presidential race with a bankroll rivaling that of coup-attempting former President Donald Trump, dropped his bid for the GOP nomination on Sunday. The announcement comes just days after DeSantis claimed he had gotten his “ticket punched” to continue his campaign despite finishing a distant second to Trump in…
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Gen Z is prioritizing living over working because they’ve seen ‘the legacy of broken promises’ in corporate America, a future-of-work expert says
Gen Z is choosing to “work to live” rather than “live to work,” like previous generations, because they’re reaping fewer rewards for their hard work, an expert on the future of work told Business Insider. Ravin Jesuthasan, the global leader for transformation services at the consulting giant Mercer and a future-of-work expert, spoke with BI…
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Ethnic killings in one Sudan city left up to 15,000 dead
Between 10,000 and 15,000 people were killed in one city in Sudan’s West Darfur region last year in ethnic violence by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militia, according to a United Nations report seen by Reuters on Friday. In the report to the U.N. Security Council, independent U.N. sanctions monitors attributed the toll…
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Iran’s IRGC says 5 members killed in Israeli attack on Syria’s Damascus
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says five of its “military advisers” have been killed in an Israeli air raid on a residential building in Syria’s capital, Damascus. Syrian state media SANA said the attack on Saturday took place in the Mazzeh neighbourhood. It said “Israeli aggression” targeted the building. Iran also blamed Israel for the…
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EU targets six people under new Hamas sanctions scheme
The European Union on Friday imposed asset freezes and travel bans on six people it said were linked to Hamas, under a new sanctions regime targeting the Palestinian militant group. The EU already listed Hamas as a terrorist organisation but moved to create a legal framework focused on the group after its deadly attack on…