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Brain implant neurotech firm has nonetheless denied that it had subjected apes to “extreme suffering” Neuralink, a biotech firm owned by billionaire Elon Musk, has admitted to killing eight monkeys during a trial of its brain chip technology, in a blog post published on Monday. The firm defended its use of animals in research and […]
Surveillance and testing issues have led to an underestimation of cases in Africa, where only 11% of the population is fully vaccinated Covid-19 infections in Africa could be seven times higher than officially reported, the World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated, while deaths could be two to three times higher than previously believed. Speaking during […]
The casualties are a result of “heavy violence” in the town where an ISIS leader was “taken off the battlefield” At least six children have been killed and one seriously injured in the Syrian village of Atmeh, where, as US President Joe Biden announced on Thursday, the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) leader Abu Ibrahim […]
A ‘counterterrorism mission’ in the Idlib province is said to have involved a massive gun battle The US military has confirmed it conducted a counterterrorism operation in northwestern Syria. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby was short on details, calling the mission a success and saying the American troops suffered no casualties. Sources on the ground […]
Indiana teenager receives heavy sentence for murders of baby sister and brother A teenager in the US state of Indiana has been sentenced to serve two consecutive 50-year prison terms for suffocating his baby stepbrother and half-sister to death in 2017, when he was just 13 years old. The judge who announced the sentence on […]
Minister says 12 of 22 migrants ‘pushed back’ by Greece were stripped of their shoes and froze to death Turkey’s Interior Minister, Suleyman Soylu, accused Greek authorities of allowing a dozen migrants to perish in the cold without their shoes, after turning them back from the Greek border. Soylu shared photos supposedly showing the migrants’ […]
A meta-analysis suggested mandating social distancing was ineffective during the first wave of the pandemic Compulsory social distancing measures, touted to the public as necessary to fight back the spread of Covid-19, did not have any significant effect on mortality rates during the first wave of the disease, a new study said. Policymakers could have […]
The French president has labelled Westminster “hypocrites” in the ongoing row over illegal Channel crossings Speaking to regional French newspaper La Voix du Nord on Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron said he would be “stepping up” pressure against British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to establish a legal route to Britain for asylum seekers. Reiterating a […]
The lawsuit accuses Amazon of making its employees work right up until disaster struck, killing six Amazon is being sued by the family of a delivery driver who was killed last month when one of its Illinois warehouses was destroyed by a tornado, with the family accusing the company of placing profits over people. 26-year-old […]
A passenger train has derailed in India, and several carriages have overturned An express train has crashed in eastern India, with multiple cars coming off the tracks and overturning. At least five people were killed in the incident and more than 50 were hospitalized. The accident occurred in India’s West Bengal state on Thursday, when […]
One of the most vaccinated nations on earth is seeing increased public pushback over Covid-19 jabs, as demonstrators in South Korea are demanding accountability for deaths that they blame on the shots. Protesters gathered in Busan on Sunday after a similar rally was held in Seoul on Christmas Day. Aggrieved demonstrators held up large portraits […]
27 people are believed to have been killed in a fire that broke out in a commercial building in Osaka, Japan, with police investigating arson as the potential source. A fire consumed the commercial building – which houses a mental health clinic, among other businesses – near the busy Kitashinchi train station on Friday, and […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said the disruption of the Covid pandemic has seen malaria cases soar by 14 million year-on-year and the disease’s 2020 death toll jump to 627,000, setting back the fight to eliminate it. The UN health agency’s annual World Malaria Report, which tracks control and elimination of the disease globally, […]
Over 2 million people could die of Covid-19 in Europe this winter, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned in its latest forecast, adding that most of the countries’ health systems could be overwhelmed. Around half of the 53 nations comprising the WHO’s European Region could face a period of “high or extreme stress” when […]
A number of explosions have rocked a munitions factory in the Belgrade suburb of Lestane, with Serbian reports suggesting at least two people have been killed and over a dozen injured. Photos and footage purportedly of the scene show huge clouds of white smoke billowing over the site, with a number of smaller blasts reported after […]