Enterprises can now bring existing SQL Server licenses to Amazon RDS, making it easier to move operational data closer to AWS analytics and agentic AI services. Licensing can be complicated, ...

Less than a week after President Cyril Ramaphosa and Kenyan President William Ruto stood at the Union Buildings promoting trade, investment and African integration, South Africa is sending envoys ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s national address on migration might well be remembered as one of the most consequential interventions on the issue since the advent of democracy. Not because it introduced ...

McDonald's customers may soon be giving their order to a robot. The fast food company is testing a new artificial intellience order-taking system at the drive-thru called ArchIQ at five locations ...

Global migration has increased from 13 million people per year in 2000 to around 35 million in 2023. The data, published in Nature on 10 June 1, come from the most detailed maps of global migration ...

Co-legislators agreed on “return hubs” on 1 June, preparing to rollout the Migration and Asylum Pact of 12 June. Stricter border controls, uniform asylum rules, and a new digital monitoring system ...

On June 12, 2026, the European Union Migration and Asylum Pact will become fully applicable. The Pact is a set of 10 pieces of binding legislation, adopted in 2024, that overhauls how the EU manages ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Transformations of American democracy are typically measured by constitutional amendments and federal legislation. But one of the most consequential occurred when Black Americans decided to vote with ...

Ireland officially opted into the pact in June 2024 and, in the intervening two years, the Government has been adopting legislation to enact the pact. But what is it? Tents housing asylum seekers near ...