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- Ancient 13th-century Buddha statue returns to Kathmandu temple decades after New York theft
Published: May 1, 2026
Section: Asia
A rare 13th-century Buddha statue, stolen in the 1980s and later tracked to a New York cultural center, was formally reinstalled at its original Kathmandu temple on May 1, 2026. Th...
- Nine confirmed dead after Madhya Pradesh tourism cruise capsizes in Narmada River storm
Published: May 1, 2026
Section: Asia
A state-operated tourist cruise carrying approximately 30 passengers capsized in the Narmada River's Bargi Dam reservoir on April 30 during a severe localized storm. Emergency team...
- Digital Rights Conference "RightsCon 2026" Canceled in Zambia Following Alleged Diplomatic Pressure from Beijing
Published: May 1, 2026
Section: Asia
The 2026 edition of RightsCon, a premier global summit on digital human rights, was abruptly canceled just days before its start in Lusaka. Advocacy group Access Now alleges the Za...
- China Urges UN Security Council to Revisit Decision to End Lebanon Peacekeeping Mission
Published: May 1, 2026
Section: Asia
China’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Fu Cong, has called for a reassessment of the Security Council’s decision to terminate the UNIFIL peacekeeping mandate in Lebanon at the e...
- New Camera-Only Navigation System Reduces Positioning Errors by 95 Percent in Areas Without GPS Signals
Published: May 1, 2026
Section: Technology
Researchers from Wuhan and Chongqing Universities have developed a visual odometry framework that uses colored point cloud maps to eliminate navigation drift for lightweight robots...
- Central Asian Leaders Convene in Astana to Address Aral Sea Ecological Collapse and Water Scarcity
Published: May 1, 2026
Section: Asia
At the latest International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) summit in Astana, heads of state from five Central Asian nations signed a landmark declaration to coordinate water m...
- LHAASO Observatory Detects Record Gamma Rays from Milky Way Binary System LS I +61° 303
Published: May 1, 2026
Section: Research
Researchers utilizing the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory have identified ultra-high-energy gamma rays exceeding 100 trillion electron-volts originating from a local bin...
- Interfacial Buffering Breakthrough Pushes Organic Solar Cell Efficiency to Record 20.21 Percent Milestone
Published: May 1, 2026
Section: Research
Researchers have developed a new interfacial buffering strategy to prevent solvent erosion in pseudo-planar heterojunction organic solar cells. By introducing a highly crystalline...
- Engineered Living Plastic Uses Cooperative Bacterial Enzymes to Self-Destruct Completely Within Six Days
Published: May 1, 2026
Section: Research
Researchers have developed a "living plastic" embedded with dormant bacterial spores that can be triggered to fully degrade the material in less than a week. This biotechnological...
- Beijing Emerges as Iran’s Strategic Anchor Amid Operation Economic Fury and Regional Conflict
Published: May 1, 2026
Section: Asia
China has solidified its role as Iran’s primary economic and military lifeline, providing critical support that allows the regime to withstand intense international pressure. Despi...
- Breakthrough PDPrior Algorithm Removes Eyeglass Reflections Using Polarization Guided Diffusion Technology
Published: May 1, 2026
Section: Technology
Researchers have developed PDPrior, a new polarization-guided diffusion model that eliminates obscuring reflections from eyeglasses in digital images. This self-supervised system r...
- Chiba University Researchers Establish Universal Standard to Optimize Perovskite Solar Cell Charge Collection
Published: May 1, 2026
Section: Research
A research team in Japan has developed a foundational model for energy level alignment at the interfaces of perovskite solar cells using hole-collecting monolayers. The new framewo...