Indonesians are talking about their government’s plan to move their capital from the metropolis of Jakarta on the island of Java to a new city under construction, Nusantara, on the island of Borneo. Expected to be completed in 2045, the $32 billion, 990-square mile megaproject will...
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Several Sri Lankan ministers and officials resigned Monday following ongoing mass demonstrations as the country experiences its worst economic crisis in decades, CNN reported. The Minister of Justice and the Minister of Youth and Sports – the latter who is also President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s nephew –...
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Former World Bank economist Rodrigo Chaves won Costa Rica’s presidential runoff elections over the weekend, promising to shake up traditional party politics and revive the country’s economy, Bloomberg reported Monday. Preliminary results showed that Chaves secured 53 percent of the vote against his rival, former President...
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Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam will not run for a second term in the upcoming May elections, even as mainland China has increased its control of the semi-autonomous city in recent years, CNBC reported Monday. Lam said during a press conference that her decision was...
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Calls for war-crime investigations and harsher sanctions on Russia grew Monday as Ukrainian and Western officials responded to discoveries of mass graves and streets littered with the bodies of dead civilians following the Russian retreat from suburbs around Kyiv, the Los Angeles Times reported....
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The inhabitants of the ancient city of Çatalhöyük, located in modern-day Turkey, had some strange burial practices that have left archaeologists perplexed, Gizmodo reported. Inhabited from 7100 to 5950 BCE, Çatalhöyük is considered one of the oldest cities in the world. Just like today’s urban areas,...
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