LAJAS BLANCAS, Panama (AP) — Panama’s president-elect José Raúl Mulino on Friday arrived at the jungle-clad province of Darien, where he was to face one of his biggest challenges: controlling the world’s busiest migration route from South America bound for the United States. The 65-year-old lawyer, who will take the reins of Panama on Monday, […]
Wounded and wary, the young couple appear to be into each other: their arranged romance, years in the making, is aimed at preserving the rapidly disappearing harpy eagle, one of the world’s largest raptors. In an immense dome in Colombia, biologists have recreated a tropical rainforest where they have slowly introduced the monogamous birds, hoping they […]
A new video shows Ukraine’s special forces navigating enemy fire to transport reinforcements to Chasiv Yar. The Kraken unit, formed by Azov Brigade veterans, has become one of the country’s best-known units. Russia has stepped up its attacks on Chasiv Yar, a strategic hilltop town in the east of Ukraine. One of Ukraine’s special forces […]
The three staple crops dominating modern diets – corn, rice and wheat – are familiar to Americans. However, fourth place is held by a dark horse: cassava. While nearly unknown in temperate climates, cassava is a key source of nutrition throughout the tropics. It was domesticated 10,000 years ago, on the southern margin of the […]
Heads of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday called on Britain to reconsider its new law facilitating the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda. The bill passed on Monday significantly restricts the possibility of resisting deportation – even if migrants are exposed to risks in the process, UNHCR head Filippo Grandi […]