Afghanistan’s Historic Year: Peace Talks, Security Transition but Higher Levels of Violence
BONN, Germany, Dec 18 (IPS) – While Afghanistan ends a historic year, filled with the hope for peace as the government and Taliban sat...
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No-deal Brexit looms as truck drivers queue for hours at port
As the possibility of no Brexit deal continues to loom, UK firms are stockpiling and putting pressure on already pandemic-pressed ports. CNN’s Anna Stewart...
UN head stresses need of virus vaccine for all nations
Author: Associated Press ID: 1608285166780022700 Fri, 2020-12-18 09:50 BERLIN: The secretary general of the United Nations on Friday stressed that as wealthy nations roll...
German man charged with attempted murder in Carnival attack
Author: Associated Press ID: 1608286499450070800 Fri, 2020-12-18 10:03 BERLIN: A German man has been charged with 91 counts of attempted murder for driving his...
Explosion at religious gathering in central Afghanistan kills at least 15 civilians: Afghan official
Explosion at religious gathering in central Afghanistan kills at least 15 civilians: Afghan official
Fri, 2020-12-18 14:17 KABUL: An explosion at a religious gathering in central Afghanistan killed at least 15 civilians and wounded 20 others on Friday,...
In these waning days of December, last January seems very far away. Our family calendar for that month still speaks of what was then...
Scientists think they’ve detected radio emissions from an alien world
Scientists may have detected radio emissions from a planet orbiting a star beyond our sun for the first time.
Newly discovered fungi turn flies into zombies and devour them from the inside out
Two newly discovered fungi eat flies from the inside out while dropping new spores out of holes dissolved in the living flies’ abdomens.
Invisible ‘arches of chaos’ span the solar system
Scientists have mapped the “arches of chaos:” a vast network of arching structures filling the solar system that could one day aid space travel.
Angel, devil and blood-red heart appear at Martian south pole
It’s summer in Mars’ southern hemisphere, and strange structures are crawling out of the ice.
‘Connect the dots’ between street protests and global turmoil, urges Guterres 
DR Congo: Ebola responders under pressure as outbreak expands 
A nanoparticle revealed the tiny impact of a single gas atom 
Was van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ a flight of fancy or a real sky?