Asia

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC estimates that during the 10 years of war in Syria 36% of the country’s 18 million inhabitants have lost their homes, 6.6 million people have become internal refugees, and 13.4 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. More than 5.6 million people have left Syria since 2011. The ongoing war in Syria...

At the end of June, one of the leading Jordanian news- papers, Assabeel, published an article about how Erdogan "is returning Turkey back to a leading role in the international arena", and listed what the publication considers the most successful steps of the Turkish leader in recent years. In particular, it is noted that he defused a significant part...

Humanity first heard the word “robot” a hundred years ago thanks to the Czech science fiction brothers Josef and Karel Capek, who in their play Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R. brought to life the idea of artificial people doing the work that humans didn’t want to do. The term itself is derived from the word “robota”, which means “slave”. Over the past century, this term has...