Conflicts in the Middle East are often viewed through the lens of identity, ideology and geopolitics that take the form of tribe versus tribe, Sunni versus Shia, Iran and its proxies versus the US and its allies. The genesis of the Yemen conflict cannot be divorced from this underpinning of causes and motivations. However, what
Eight months after one of Uber’s self-driving cars hit and killed a pedestrian, the ride-sharing company is on the verge of putting its vehicles back on the road in a more reduced pilot of earlier efforts. Before the accident, Uber was driving its autonomous vehicles on public roads in four cities at speeds up to
After a dinner meeting at the G-20 Summit in Buenos Aires, President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed on a cease-fire on tariffs. The US will hold off on increasing the tariff on $200 billion Chinese imports after January 1, 2019. This positive sign toward a truce on the trade war pushed major markets,
Campaigning for using environmentally-friendly sources of energy – renewable energy – to replace destructive sources of energy has been a global phenomenon. Today, the 24th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is being held in Portland, marking the second stage of the Paris
In 2015, European Union (EU) leadership committed to reducing domestic emissions by at least 40 percent by 2030. Promises to roll out initiatives to minimize global temperature increases and adopt national climate actions plans (INDCs) were also notable elements of the accord. As of November 2018, the European Union’s Climate Action Tracker (CAT)
Yemeni citizens are caught in the crossfire of a proxy war that involves much more than an exchange of bullets. It is estimated that 80% of the domestic population have been forced into dire humanitarian need; some 18.5 million people are food insecure and 16 million have no access to safe, clean water and
