US imposes sanctions on companies over support for sale of Iranian petrochemicals
Wed, 2020-12-16 18:43 LONDON: The US Treasury Department said it has imposed sanctions on companies accused of supporting the sale of Iranian petrochemical products. The four entitie were blacklisted for...
MPs urge UK to designate Iran’s IRGC a terrorist group
Wed, 2020-12-16 18:53 LONDON: The UK should list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group and describe Tehran’s detainment of British...
Great Pyramid relic found in Scottish museum
Wed, 2020-12-16 18:32 LONDON: An ancient wooden relic, lost for over a century and one of just three items retrieved from the Great Pyramid...
Daesh gunman’s fugitive widow convicted in 2015 Paris attacks
Author: By LORI HINNANT | AP ID: 1608137076706413900 Wed, 2020-12-16 16:42 PARIS: The fugitive widow of a Daesh gunman and a man described as his...
UN official calls for more international attention on South Sudan
Author: Wed, 2020-12-16 21:27 NEW YORK: The head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has urged the international community to direct its...
British Army disinfectant kills 99% of coronavirus cells
Author: Wed, 2020-12-16 22:25 LONDON: A disinfectant spray created by the British Army is to go on general sale after it was found to...
Pakistan’s ancient form of wrestling threatened by ‘obsession for cricket’
Author: Thu, 2020-12-17 00:12 KARACHI: It’s an ancient form of wrestling that has existed in the regions that make up present-day Pakistan and India...
Nor’easter could drop a foot of snow on New England
The storm follows last year’s mild winter with below-average snowfall.
Stunningly preserved ‘Cretaceous Pompeii’ fossils may not be what they seem
Two dinosaurs that died in China during the Cretaceous were fossilized in 3D — but it probably wasn’t a volcanic eruption that killed and...
US could reach ‘net-zero’ carbon by 2050. Here’s how.
The U.S. can cut its carbon output to zero by the middle of the 21th century, according to a major new Princeton University study....
Ebola: Motorbike riders carrying the sick may hold key to response boost 
Security Council LIVE: Drone strikes and political impasse in Libya 
Shrews’ noses grow in winter as their brains shrink 
Nairobi Biodiversity Talks Set the Stage for Key COP17 Decisions