Afghanistan latest updates: Turkey offers Taliban airport support, China considers formally recognising new regime and Albania and Serbia rescue Afghan refugees

Afghanistan latest updates: The rapid fall of a nation 2021 Asia | Middle East | Afghanistan Afghanistan spent much of the 1980s fighting back the USSR invaders. The USA’s CIA funded and founded a group called the Taliban (The Students in Pushto). The 1990s were spent in post-Soviet civil war…




Europe’s hottest ever temperature recorded in Sicily

Europe’s hottest ever temperature recorded on Italy’s largest island –  Sicily Climate Change | Mediterranean | Italy | Sicily Fact Box: Wild Fires are common in the Mediterranean, yet summer 2021 has seen record high temperatures and the most intense fires on record spreading from Turkey, across Greece, the Balkan…


Olympics Tokyo 2020 | Jamaica – Runner Elaine Thompson-Herah banned from social media in copyright battle after posting footage of herself

Jamaican runner, Elaine Thompson-Herah banned from social media for copyright breaches after posting footage of herself Sport | Olympics | Tokyo 2020 | Jamaica | Elaine Thompson-Herah | Copyright Law Fact Box: Elaine Thompson-Herah has the second fastest time ever recorded for the women’s 200 m at 21.53 seconds and…



UK blackouts due to electric cars

UK Black outs due to electric cars as island nations still planing to ban petrol and diesel by 2030 Cars | Electric Cars | Technology | Climate Change | Renewable Energy  Fact Box:  The UK government has faced questions and concerns regarding the strength of the island nation’s energy infrastructure….



UAE ‘Cloud Seeding Drones’ | Dubai has successfully used drones to create clouds and rain in the desert

UAE ‘Cloud Seeding Drones’ successfully form clouds and create rain as manmade weather Technology | Cyber | Environment | Climate Change | Middle East | |UAE | Dubai FACT BOX: Geoengineering tech – controlling earth’s climate using manmade technologies – is a concept countries around the world have long dreamt of conquering.  In what on any other…


Donald Trump’s former Chairman, Tom Barrack, arrested and charged over UAE lobbying

Trump ally charged over UAE lobbying North America | USA | Politics | Law | Crime | Federal Corruption FACT BOX: Tom Barrack is the former Chair of Trump’s Presidential Inaugural Committee.  Billionaire, Tom Barrack, was who was the Chair of former US president Donald Trump’s Inaugural Committee in 2016, has…