Fighting Over Illegal Fishing Lead to Armed Conflict, Deaths Illegal fishing and overfishing are increasingly the cause of armed conflicts across the world's oceans, research suggests. Both practices reduce an important yet difficult to defend food s...
Charging Putin with War Crimes Could Be Difficult The shocking images and stories out of Bucha and surrounding towns in Ukraine have led to calls for a war crimes trial against Russia. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the United Nations Sec...
The Cambridge University Library in Britain received a gift in early March. 剑桥大学图书馆在3月份收到了一份礼物。 Someone left a pink gift bag near the building with a note: Happy Easter, X, it read. In this case, X was in place of...
Taiwanese puppeteers are bringing their traditional art form into modern times by using non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. An NFT can be attached to a piece of digital artwork. The NFT can be used to provide proof that the pieces are real. The prices of s...
American President Joe Biden joined leaders around the world Monday in calling for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin. The appeal for justice followed the publication of pictures taken in towns around Kyiv that Russia had att...
Tattoo artists in South Korea will continue to risk arrest if they violate a long-standing ban on their work. Last week, the highest court in the country ruled in support of the restriction. Only medical professionals may legally tattoo people in Sou...
Ukrainian YouTubers Ask Japanese to Help Ukraine They began with funny videos and talked over Mario Kart racing games on their YouTube channel. Now, two Ukrainian brothers who live in Japan have added a more serious subject to their videos. They are...
East African Grain Teff Grows in Popularity in US An ancient grain native to the Horn of Africa, called teff, is growing in popularity in the United States. It is being grown in the American West and Midwest. Growers note its increasing appeal as a s...
High Rises Buildings Go up in Mumbai's Old Tenement Neighborhood For Shailesh Kambli, a childhood dream is about to become reality. The 40-year-old Indian man lives in a 15-square-meter, one-room home in India's financial capital, Mumbai. It would no...
China has delayed construction of an attack submarine for Thailand's navy. A Thai naval official says Germany refuses to export the engines needed to finish the submarine to China. The delay could hurt Thailand's military relations with China, which...
The world's seafood industry is preparing for higher prices, supply problems and possible job losses as restrictions make products from Russia less available. Experts say the continued restrictions meant to punish Russia, known as sanctions, will als...
Many in Mideast See Western Support of Ukraine as Sign of Unfairness Some Middle Eastern leaders say Western countries use one set of rules for the conflict in Ukraine and another for conflicts in the Middle East. They say that, within days of the Ru...
The Azores, the Portuguese group of islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, has seen seismic activity since March 19th. More than 14,000 small earthquakes have hit the island. The dairy farmers on the volcanic island of Sao Jorge are worried. Sa...
Italian Mountain Village Is Reborn For some people, seeing a beautiful event in nature can be unforgettable and sometimes life-changing. That is what happened to Franco Cagnoli. The Italian man was so moved by seeing the sun rise over a village in th...
Brazilian Company Wants to Save Amazon with NFTs A Brazilian company is offering a way to help save the Amazon rainforest by selling non-fungible tokens. A non-fungible token, or NFT, is based on a technology called blockchain, which is also used wit...
