A knife-edge majority of people have voted “yes” in Moldova’s pivotal referendum on joining the EU, nearly final results show, after President Maia Sandu said the vote had been marred by outside interference.
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.
North Korea has blown up parts of two major roads connected to the southern part of the peninsula, after Pyongyang warned it would take steps to cut cross-border transport links.
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.
U.S. voters will cast about 160 million ballots to choose the president, members of Congress, and thousands of state lawmakers, city council members, attorneys general, and secretaries of state.
Three American economists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for their “studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
After the Nobel Prizes that honoured work in the sciences, the Nobel Committee at the Swedish Academy announced the literature award to South Korean author Han Kang, “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.
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.”
John Hopfield (USA) and Geoffrey Hinton (CAN) share the prize “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
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.
Generative AI companies have called on the White House to build data centres that use as much power as an entire city. These would create tens of thousands of jobs and boost GDP.
Russia has established a weapons programme in China to develop and produce long-range attack drones, or uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), for use in the war against Ukraine.
President Putin orders the conscription of 133,000 new servicemen in Russia’s autumn draft, taking the 2024 total to 283,000 – up by 11% from 2022.
Dockworkers who went on strike on October 1 are just the latest union to echo demands for better contracts. At least 250 strikes and other labor actions have been recorded so far this year.
Italy has opened the first of two controversial migrant camps in neighboring Albania – a move it hopes will reduce the number of illegal sea crossings to its shores.
