Capt Ibrahim Traoré, who seized power in 2023, says democratic rule would not work for his country.

Scientists created virtual replicas of patients’ diseased hearts so precise that blocking a dangerous irregular heartbeat in these digital “twins” showed doctors how to better treat the real thing. One of the first clinical trials of these custom models suggests it might improve care for ventricular tachycardia, a notoriously difficult-to-treat arrhythmia that is a major cause of sudden cardiac arrest, blamed for about 300,000 U.S. deaths a year. The study, by researchers at Johns Hopkins Univ

“We need to make Russia wake up each morning, thinking to themselves: 'Not today,'" the alliance's top officer for force transformation said.