As COVID-19 ravages US, shootings, killings are also up
Mon, 2020-12-28 21:50 DETROIT: When Andre Avery drives his commercial truck through Detroit, he keeps his pistol close. Avery, 57, grew up in the...
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Spain to keep registry of people who refuse Covid vaccine
Author: Mon, 2020-12-28 21:43 MADRID: Spain will set up a registry of people who refuse to be vaccinated against the new coronavirus and share...
In a divided nation, Americans asks: What’s holding our country together?
Author: Mon, 2020-12-28 22:11 Elections are meant to resolve arguments. This one inflamed them. Weeks after the votes have been counted and the winners...
Crossing Channel post-Brexit: big changes in store
Author: Mon, 2020-12-28 22:18 LILLE, France: Despite London and Brussels reaching a trade deal to limit the fallout of Brexit the flow of people...
Nashville bomber to neighbor: World ‘never going to forget me’
Author: Mon, 2020-12-28 22:26 NASHVILLE, Tennessee: The man authorities believe was responsible for setting off a Christmas Day bomb that injured three people and...
Belo Monte Dam: Electricity or Life in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 28 (IPS) – “We are no longer familiar with the Xingú River,” whose waters govern “our way of life, our...
Bats are superheroes of the night. Their superpowers could help us protect them.
Conservationists are using bats’ echolocation abilities to help track these mammals, as many of them succumb to white nose syndrome.
10 science records broken in 2020
From the longest bird flight to the oldest identical twins, 2020 was filled with record-breaking science.
The strangest medical cases of 2020
From a man with green urine to a teenager with a sewing pin in his heart, a number of intriguing medical cases caught our...
Indonesia bans international visitors for 2 weeks over new virus strain
Author: Mon, 2020-12-28 12:48 JAKARTA: International visitors will be barred from entering Indonesia for a two-week period in a bid to stem the spread...
Sudan conflict: Peace efforts resume to end ‘drone war’ fuelling humanitarian crisis 
UN agencies appeal for help to protect weakest from unprecedented El Niño 
Summit in Samarkand, a boon for child wellbeing and health 
Migrants paid up to $500 million in smuggling fees on European sea routes