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Roman Marshavin has said energy justice in Africa requires infrastructure and training Russia plans to launch a pilot engineering education program in Burkina Faso by late 2025, Deputy Energy Minister Roman Marshavin announced on Thursday.  Speaking at the Russia-Africa Raw Materials Dialogue in St. Petersburg, he noted that the initiative is intended to build local technical capacity and support long-term …

Russian strikes at two nuclear power plants in Ukraine have sparked a safety warning from the world’s nuclear energy watchdog. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned that military activity at Ukraine‘s South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant (SUNPP) and Khmelnitsky Nuclear Power Plant (KhNPP) was jeopardising “nuclear safety”. The organisation said: “The IAEA has been informed of military activity in …

Robot dogs might not be able to survive a potential assault on Taiwan, based on the results of an amphibious landing exercise carried out by the People’s Liberation Army and broadcast in a documentary aired by state broadcaster CCTV. The four-legged robots, loaded with explosives, were released by the first wave of landing forces in the exercise. They ran across …

The two countries’ militaries have held talks in the Indian capital to explore new areas for defense collaboration Senior defense officials from India and Russia met in New Delhi this week to explore new areas for military cooperation and strengthen long-standing defense ties. The talks were co-chaired by Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, India’s Chief of Integrated Defence Staff, and Lieutenant …

A million-dollar gold heist in Thailand’s far south by armed robbers who blocked roads with spikes and set explosives to seal their escape across the Malaysian border has rattled the Thai security establishment, as efforts to reignite peace talks in an area roiled by insurgency continue to fall flat. Around 20 men working in three teams carried out the October …

The British royal family has stripped Jeffrey Epstein’s former friend of his last titles British King Charles III has stripped his brother Prince Andrew of his remaining titles and evicted him from his royal residence due to sexual assault allegations and his close friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. According to the royal family, the former prince will from …

Developer China Vanke reported a deeper third-quarter loss, highlighting mounting challenges as the prolonged property market downturn continues to weigh on its sales. The Shenzhen-based company posted a loss of 16.1 billion yuan (US$2.3 billion) in the three months ended September 30, roughly doubling its loss from a year earlier. That brings its combined losses for the first nine months …

Brazilian police have been accused of cutting off the head of a 19-year-old and hanging it from a tree as authorities launched a deadly raid in Rio de Janeiro just days ahead of a visit to the city by Prince William. The massive operation by armed police targeting a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of the southeastern city left …

Tehran blocked most foreign messengers in 2018, arguing they were used to incite violence in anti-government protests Iran’s Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) has started talks with Telegram and other social media platforms, aimed at getting them to comply with Tehran’s conditions and unblocking the messengers, the Mehr news agency reported on Wednesday. Tehran will cease blocking the …

Power shifts begin in places most people never see – on assembly lines making batteries and robots, along transmission lines feeding data centre clusters, in local offices selling land and in labs training artificial intelligence models. The United States and China are using these quiet levers to construct different futures. The contest will be decided not by slogans but by …