Robots are taking on more tasks in the world’s cities and making life easier for residents but by doing so create more challenges for policymakers. Humans are steadily handing over responsibility for the day-to-day running of cities to robots. The masters of the mundane no longer have beating hearts. Driverless
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks on the release of the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report, in Nairobi today: Droughts, floods, storms and wildfires are devastating lives and livelihoods across the globe. Loss and damage from the climate emergency is getting worse by the day. And
Tuberculosis case numbers increased from 2019 to 2021, reversing years of progress as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted access to treatment and testing, the World Health Organization said Thursday. “For the first time in nearly two decades, WHO is reporting an increase in the number of people falling ill with TB
U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Egypt to participate in the COP27 U.N. climate change summit on November 11, where he will call on the world to act “in this decisive decade,” the White House said Friday. Biden will then be in Cambodia November 12-13 to participate in the
The BA.5 subvariant of the COVID-19 Omicron variant remains dominant in Indonesia despite XBB subvariant infections being reported in the country, according to an official from the Ministry of Health. “The dominant subvariant is still BA.5. For XBB, there are only four reported cases,” Director of Surveillance and Quarantine at
The Manpower Ministry has bolstered the dissemination of information about the importance of vocational education through the Vocational Training Festival and the National Job Fair held on October 28-30, 2022. “A skilled workforce will be created by being trained by the ministry with quality and great instructors. Hopefully, what we