Author: Edwin Omar Owens

London (20/5 – 20)One academic was asked about the internet eating their young. This triggered a heated debate about the use of the internet the freedom in presents, the dangers of unfettered go for it all to the public, the rise of the left, the response by the right, and AI, or Artificial Intelligence. The seriousness of the debate can be seen at the UK sponsored conference on AI at Bletchley Park. Following this was the adaptation of the European law on Artificial Intelligence. 28 countries at the summit, including the United States, China, and the European Union, have issued…

The country’s most important archaeological find has been compared to Machu Picchu. Here’s how to see it At first glance, it doesn’t look like much, just a rectangular meadow in the Pamir foothills of central Tajikistan. But there was a time when this ground reverberated with the thunder of hooves. Occupying a broad saddle, high above the mighty Panj River, this meadow is believed to be an ancient arena for the Central Asian sport of buzkashi, or dead goat polo. The playing field was a centerpiece of a once sprawling settlement, a political and religious capital inhabited for centuries but since lost to…

Moscow (28/2). Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that non-governmental organizations in Central Asia have stepped up their anti-Russian activities amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army. Shoigu said this at the board of the Russian Ministry of Defense on February 27. According to him, there are more than 100 “large pro-Western non-governmental organisations” operating in Central Asia, which have more than 16,000 representative offices and branches. “Against the backdrop of the special military operation, these NGOs have significantly increased their anti-Russian activities in order to reduce military-technical, economic and cultural cooperation between the Central Asian states and Russia.…

“I removed the last rock and saw them. Then I went to the other side. They hugged us, lifted us. And thanked us for taking them out,” Munna Qureshi told reporters on Tuesday evening after coming out of a Himalayan tunnel in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. He was among a dozen or so workers who cleared the last stretch of debris by hand to help free 41 workers who had been trapped in the under-construction 4.5km (3-mile) Silkyara tunnel for more than 16 days. A landslide had caused a portion of the tunnel – part of the $1.5bn…

Efforts to rescue 40 workers trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in northern India have been expanded to include drilling down from the mountain top. A platform is being prepared to place the drilling machine at the site in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. Another bid to reach the workers will also be made from the mouth of the tunnel. Three attempts to drill through the debris there have failed so far. Part of the tunnel under construction caved in after a landslide last Sunday. Contact with the men has been established and they are being provided oxygen and food. Explaining…

The family of a Scottish man detained in India for six years has said his life depends on the new foreign secretary’s intervention. Jagtar Singh Johal, a 36-year-old Sikh activist, faces terror charges in connection with political violence in the north of the country. His brother has now written to David Cameron and asked him to meet the family and call for Mr Johal’s release. The UK government said it was committed to seeing the case resolved. Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire, was arrested in India in November 2017, weeks after his wedding there. A cross-party group of…

The Ukrainian military destroyed the Russian T-62 tank. The Drone Army had a hand in this. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to the Telegram of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov. “The Russian tank with a flying turret is the work of the UAV strike company of the 79th airborne assault brigade of PERUN GROUP in the Donetsk region,” he noted. According to Fedorov, the fighters skillfully hit the ammunition load of the T-62 tank with an FPV drone. “Then there was a powerful detonation and the Russian rubbish was completely destroyed,” the minister added. Russian losses in Ukraine…

Indian opposition MP Mahua Moitra has walked out during questioning by a parliamentary ethics panel over her alleged misconduct in parliament. A fierce critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, Ms Moitra is accused of asking questions in parliament in exchange for bribes. An MP from the Trinamool Congress party (TMC), Ms Moitra strongly denies the allegations. She has said she is willing to “face any kind of inquiry”. On Thursday, she appeared before an ethics committee of the Lok Sabha – the lower house of India’s parliament – which started hearing the case last week. Ms Moitra said she…

Another week has flown by and you’ve probably already planned what takeaway it’s going to be this weekend. Like most things at the moment, it is likely people are having to fork out more money for their favourite cheat meal. Indian restaurant owner Karim Ullah says a “perfect storm” of the Covid pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the cost of living crisis has affected curry houses. “Energy is horrendously high,” says Karim, who runs Brohmon restaurant in Stansted, Essex. “Then staffing costs are very high now and then you’ve got the pressures of the cost of living crisis [and]…

The Russian military has changed tactics in the Liman-Kupyansk direction. There has been a lull there lately. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to the speaker of the Eastern Group of Forces Ilya Yevlash on the air of a national telethon. He noted that there is now a lull on the Kupyansk-Liman line. There are no military clashes there, but heavy shelling and air raids continue. “The Russian Federation has no successes. The enemy has changed tactics: instead of meat assaults they use artillery, there are no barrages of fire, they are saving ammunition. Intelligence monitors the tightening of their reserves. We must…