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Future of Warfare – Loitering munitions preview the autonomous future of warfare (Brookings)

Kelsey Atherton writes: Loitering missiles operate from a simple premise: What if a missile could become more accurate by slowing down? Awkward cousins to...

USA – Underfunding HBCUs leads to an underrepresentation of Black faculty (Brookings)

Kristen Broady, Andre M. Perry, and Carl Romer write: This May, the University of North Carolina’s Board of Trustees denied a tenure position to Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning...

USA – Why President Biden should ban affective computing in federal law enforcement (Brookings)

Alex Engler writes: Affective computing is an interdisciplinary field that uses algorithms to analyze bodies, faces, and voices to infer human emotion and state...

USA/Unemployment – US private jobs creation slows as hiring bottlenecks persist (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: More evidence surfaced on Wednesday that hiring bottlenecks are weighing on the labour market recovery in the United States. Payroll processor ADP said...

Turkey/USA/Afghanistan – Turkey slams US statement on planned resettlement of Afghans (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: The Turkish government has criticised a US plan to use third countries such as Turkey to resettle thousands of Afghans who risk...

Afghanistan – Afghan families flee homes in south amid Taliban advance (Al Jazeera)

Farah Najjar writes: There has been intense fighting in Afghanistan in recent days, mainly in the south and the west, while a bomb-and-gun attack in...

Ghana – Ghana’s #FixTheCountry protesters take to Accra’s streets (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Several thousand protesters marched in Ghana’s capital Accra on Wednesday under the slogan “#FixTheCountry”, the latest rally against President Nana Akufo-Addo’s...

African Union/Israel – The African Union, Israel and the futility of appeasement (Al Jazeera)

Marwan Bishara writes: For decades, African countries have supported the Palestinian liberation struggle against Israel, seeing in it parallels with their own anti-colonial movements. Likewise,...

Ethiopia – Claims of bias against aid workers in Tigray ‘dangerous’, says UN (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: The United Nations’ new humanitarian chief has denounced “dangerous” accusations by Ethiopian government officials that aid workers were biased in favour...

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