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At least forty people were killed and at least 120 people were wounded in an explosion at a weapons cache in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, a group ...
As expanding technology and infrastructure fuel global demand for resources, manufacturing powerhouses India and China, are eyeing the ocean ...
PHNOM PENH, Sept 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Foreign workers and tourists stranded in Cambodia during the COVID-19 pandemic have been trafficked and forced to work in sophisticated Chinese ...
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The war in Ukraine shows the high stakes risk of concentrating food production to just a few countries – the latest in a series of overlapping food crises ...
From recruiting software that favours men to facial recognition systems that struggle to identify Black faces, artificial intelligence (AI) technology often reflects entrenched bias, campaigners ...
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'UBER FOR TRACTORS' Digital technologies are key to making sure the world has enough to eat, say agri-tech innovators. Taking advantage of Africa's fast-growing network of mobile phone users ...
MINAÇU, Brazil, Jan 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the Brazilian town of Minaçu, it used to snow, locals like to tell visitors. But the white powder that covered the streets and roofs from ...
Although laws allowing slavery have been scrapped worldwide, many of the 193 U.N. member states have not gone on to explicitly criminalise slavery ...
More than half the countries in the Asia-Pacific region have some form of data protection and privacy legislation. By Rina Chandran. BANGKOK, Nov 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - China's new law ...
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