China’s tech race strategy prioritises a clear destination, a focus America’s market-driven model lacks. While parts of the Tengchong report are overly optimistic, it offers a crucial narrative about humanity’s future path, which bureaucratic assessments and regulations fail to provide.

Six new movies – including sequels, retellings of old stories and new tales from old franchises – as well as four television series, all prequels or new seasons, suggest there is comfort in the familiar.

WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez may pay a bigger price than ousted leader Nicolas Maduro “if she doesn’t do what’s right,” according to an interview with The Atlantic magazine.

The precise US military action that snatched Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro from his residence may help drive the possibilities for a more successful Venezuelan future — but in all likelihood, it will worsen the situation.

In Uganda, an opposition is attempting against all odds to unseat an authoritarian who has held firmly on to the reins of power for nearly 40 years. Led by the charismatic rock-star-turned-activist Bobi Wine, it has employed non-confrontational Gandhi-like tactics in an effort to defeat the regime in the forthcoming 15 January presidential election.

Venezuela’s toppled leader Nicolás Maduro was in a New York detention centre on Sunday awaiting drug charges after President Donald Trump ordered an audacious raid to capture him, saying the US would take control of the oil-producing nation.

Fuel prices are a key driver of inflation in South Africa and not just because of their impact on motorists. In the price pipeline they have a material effect on transport and energy costs which ripple through the value chain to consumers.