The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of firsts globally, with quarantining and having a lack of social interaction being a new experience for many. Despite this, countless individuals lived this life for years, dubbed “hikikomori.” Originally thought as a ...
Everytime there is a new development in the world of technology, we hear about it through the technologists themselves. A keynote presentation with dazzling graphics, big pictures and bold declarations that “this is the future!” We’re used to tech CEOs ...
For the first time in human history, the world population has surpassed eight billion. On Nov 15, 2022, the UN released a report detailing the demographic changes that will occur as a result of this. In it, it predicts that ...
Saudi Arabia has been almost entirely dependent on the revenue earned from oil exports since oil was first discovered in the country in 1938 in Dammam. This allowed the industrialization and social and economic development of the nation into one ...
Morocco’s soccer sphere recently re-entered the newswave when the Moroccan government announced it was not going to participate in the African Nations Championship (CHAN) tournament hosted in Algeria this year– a tournament they had previously won in 2021. After not ...
Twenty-seven-year-old Puerto Rican singer, Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, has taken the music industry by storm. Bad Bunny began his career in 2016 in Puerto Rico by posting his rap songs on SoundCloud. Soon, he became an overnight ...
Like everything else in the South Caucasus, discourse around Armenia’s nuclear power plant — labeled “one of the most dangerous” in the world — is entangled in a mosaic of geopolitical complexity and conflicting regional interests. As the only country ...
Since the 1970s, South Korea has been a signatory of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). It officially became a denuclearized country after the United States removed all its nuclear weapons in 1991. Under the international treaty, ...
On May 22, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., a former Filipino Senator, was declared the new president-elect of the Philippines. He and his vice president, Sara Duterte, were sworn into office a month later, relieving Sara’s father, Rodrigo Duterte, of his ...
In November 2022, the world of cryptocurrency hit the news wave as the trading giant, FTX, filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 11. FTX had become a household name, valued at close to $40 billion, and was the third largest exchange ...