LDP-Komeito Bloc Loses Majority In Lower House Election
Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partner, Komeito, have lost their majority in the House of Representatives.
World Affairs
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Doomsday Arctic Seed Vault
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault -- built in the Arctic and designed to protect vital crop seeds against climate change and conflict -- has received more than 30,000 new samples from 21 countries.
North Korean Troops Deployed To Fight With Russia
Officials in Ukraine and South Korea have accused North Korea of dispatching troops, estimated to number in the thousands, to aid Russia in the war in Ukraine.
BRICS Summit To Showcase Rise Of Global South
The BRICS summit due to be held in Kazan, Russia, will bring together founding members Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, as well as newly inducted nations.
Germany’s Shrinking Economy
Germany is suffering a mild recession and output this year is expected to be flat. With a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of €4.121 billion, Germany is Europe’s largest economy.
Economic Sciences, Economy Winners 2024
Three American economists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for their “studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
Chemistry Winners 2024
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 was awarded with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
Physics Winners 2024
John Hopfield (USA) and Geoffrey Hinton (CAN) share the prize “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
Physiology Or Medicine Winners 2024
The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated.