U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths is stepping down for health reasons after nearly three years of trying to tackle mounting crises in Ukraine, Gaza and Africa. U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq made the announcement Monday. U.N. Secretary-General Antóni…
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GENEVA – A United Nations expert told the global body’s Human Rights Council on Tuesday that she believed that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza since Oct. 7 amounted to genocide and called on countries to immediately impose sanctions and an arms embargo…
Scientists have revealed a new report that suggests that our species – Homo sapiens – emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago. By analysing the modern and ancient genomic data for Europeans and Asians, researchers concluded that modern humans descended from Africa before migrating out of the continent 60,000 to 70,000 years ago…
The Social Development and Human Security Ministry has not sent 19 stateless children who were rescued in Lop Buri back to their origins in Myanmar, minister Varawut Silpa-archa said on Tuesday…
The Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson, has expressed concern about the passage of the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill by Ghana’s Parliament. The British Virgin Islands-based billionaire described the bill as a backslide on human rights and an economic disaster…
Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company, kicked off 2024 by announcing its first successful human trial. There was some skepticism about the surgery, so last week that human came forward to show off just how incredible Neuralink can be. Noland Arbaugh uses a wheelchair to get around after a swimming accident left him paralyzed from…