Beijing has punished nearly 50 executives of steel-producing companies for faking pollution data Authorities in China have punished supervisors from four companies located in the top steelmaking city of Tangshan, the local government announced on Thursday, citing court documents. Some 47 senior officials working for the companies have been given prison sentences ranging from six […]
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US nearly wiped out tens of thousands of civilians with dam strike in Syria – NYT
The military then dismissed reports of the bombing as “crazy” and preemptively blamed ISIS In 2017, the US bombed a piece of strategic infrastructure in Syria, the Tabqa Dam on the Euphrates River, despite it being on a no-strike list, the New York Times reported. A B-52 bomber dropped some of the heaviest weapons in […]
Expiration date on nearly 1 million old Covid tests extended
US regulators have agreed to push back the use-by date on hundreds of thousands of expired rapid tests despite concerns they might return erroneous results The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has lengthened the shelf-life for around 800,000 expired coronavirus tests that have sat in a warehouse in Florida for months, giving state health […]
Nearly half of Ontario’s ‘Covid-19 patients’ admitted for reasons unrelated to virus
Canadian province to start differentiate between coronavirus patients and Covid-19 positive patients admitted for other reasons Canada’s Ontario province has acknowledged that many of the people reported to be hospitalized with Covid-19 were actually admitted because of other health conditions and were incidentally found to be infected with the virus. Of the 3,220 people hospitalized […]
WATCH rare blood moon eclipse, first in nearly 600 years
Planetary alignment on Friday has offered sky-gazers around the globe a chance to witness a spectacular near-total lunar eclipse, the longest since the 1440s. The fascinating astronomical phenomenon lasted three hours and 28 minutes – the longest in centuries, according to international space agencies. On Thursday and Friday, depending on local time zones, the Earth, […]
Nearly 800 forced to evacuate amid massive wildfire around Spanish resort town (VIDEOS)
A massive wildfire has broken out in the vicinity of the southern Spanish town of Estepona. The blaze has prompted evacuation of some 800 people and caused traffic disruption, with several roads closed. The fire began in the forested mountainous area around the town, known as the Sierra Bermeja, late on Wednesday, continuing to spread […]