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Biden chose ‘disaster’ Kamala Harris based on identity, is now doing the same for SCOTUS pick, politician claims Former Hawaii representative Tulsi Gabbard ripped President Joe Biden’s promise to pick a black woman as his next candidate for the US Supreme Court. Biden took the same identitarian approach to select his running mate, and Kamala […]
The object, unlike anything the scientists have seen before, emits giant blasts of energy every 20 minutes Scientists using a powerful telescope in Western Australia have discovered a “mysterious” object in our galaxy, which lets off gigantic blasts of energy three times an hour. The researchers reckon it could be “an ultra-long-period magnetar,” which has […]
A Russian satellite captured the scale of the devastation from space, showing an island completely obliterated An image posted online by Russian space agency Roscosmos has revealed the devastation caused by the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano last week, comparing the border of the two islands before and after the disaster. A satelite view […]
How both Israelis and Palestinians are creating a recipe for bloody violence The year 2021 was a bloody one even by the usually gory standards of the long-running Israel-Palestine conflict. Data from the United Nations shows that violence in the West Bank “reached a five-year peak,” with at least 79 Palestinians and three Israelis killed […]
Russia’s ‘Priority 2030’ aims at transforming universities and increasing the competitiveness of the entire system of Russian higher education. In June 2021, Russia’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education offered the Priority 2030 academic leadership program to the nation’s universities. More than 100 Russian higher education centers joined and will receive at least 100 million […]
The 70th final of the Miss World competition was canceled mere hours before it was due to start in Puerto Rico’s San Juan after more than 20 contestants tested positive for Covid-19. The annual event was due to take place on Thursday, but will now be rescheduled “within the next 90 days.” “Miss World 2021 […]
Speaking during an interview, Maria Van Kerkhove, the technical lead at the World Health Organization (WHO), warned that the world was facing a “tsunami of Covid infections” due to the joint spread of Delta and Omicron. In an article published on Tuesday in the Spanish daily El Pais, Van Kerkhove raised concerns that vaccination alone […]
South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa was caught on video dancing maskless during a trip to Ghana, only days before he tested positive for Covid-19, as his country battles a wave of cases sparked by the Omicron variant. The footage, circulating on Twitter, shows Ramaphosa, 69, forgoing a mask while dancing with a partner, as music […]
Scientists in Sweden claim that a single protein in the blood could predict the onset of Type 2 diabetes nearly 20 years in advance. The breakthrough potentially affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Diabetes is the world’s ninth-leading cause of death, and affects nearly half a billion people worldwide, according to the World Health […]
Tech giant Microsoft has followed Facebook into the Metaverse – after a fashion. Users of its Teams collaborative software will be able to appear as virtual avatars in fantasy workspaces, a step toward Facebook’s immersive VR. Microsoft is rolling out a more Metaverse-like version of its popular Teams videoconferencing program, offering users the option of […]
Police and witnesses say 17 people were injured in a stabbing spree on a busy Tokyo subway train. The suspect, who also set a fire on board the train, was reportedly dressed as Batman’s ‘Joker’. The 24-year-old suspect was arrested on Sunday night after allegedly stabbing 17 people on a train heading toward Shinjuku, the […]
The EU’s Directorate General for Personnel has informed lawmakers and staff they will have to show a Covid pass to enter parliamentary buildings in Brussels, Luxembourg or Strasbourg from November 3, according to media reports. The measure will come into effect on Wednesday after a majority of the European Parliament’s Vice Presidents backed requiring a […]
South Africa’s health minister has announced that the country will start giving Covid vaccines to 12- to 17-year-olds from next week, using the Pfizer jab, as part of a plan to boost inoculation before exams start. Friday’s statement comes a month after South Africa’s Health Products Regulatory Authority approved the use of the Pfizer vaccine […]
Police in Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana clashed with crowds demonstrating against Covid restrictions, deploying horse-mounted officers, tear gas and water cannon to disperse people on the eve of today’s European Union summit there. Hundreds of demonstrators on Tuesday took to the streets of Ljubljana to oppose the government’s pandemic measures, with a video on Twitter showing […]
A 96-year-old ex-Nazi secretary, who went on the run to avoid a court hearing before being arrested, has been released from custody pending trial. She is accused of complicity in the murder of some 11,000 people. On Tuesday, Irmgard Furchner, who had worked as a secretary at a Nazi death camp during the Second World […]