Old rivalries, territorial disputes and new alliances are reshaping the conflict in Ethiopia’s north.

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The advance of the Iran-aligned Houthi rebel group in Yemen has driven more than 130,000 people from their homes since the beginning of September, deepening the humanitarian crisis in an already poor ...

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On September 4, the United Nations GeneralAssembly made what may become one of the most symbolic decisions in modernhistory. In an overwhelming vote of 164 in favour, one against and six abstentions, ...

Follow Venkatraman Ramakrishnan’s path from failed exams and risky career shifts to a Nobel Prize for ribosome research.

The UN General Assembly has endorsed a non-binding, African-led resolution promoting equal-area map projections such as Equal Earth to better represent the size of continents.

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The battery in a current-generation electric vehicle draws on minerals whose deposits crystallised up to 1.4 billion years ...

There is an official confirmation of the cast of the fourth season of Celebrity Race Across the World from the BBC, and it ...

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On a journey through Tashkent, Bukhara and the Fergana Valley, Scott Campbell learns that the story of Uzbekistan is told in ...