The UK is sending robot submarines to watch the world’s largest iceberg crash into an island
The world’s largest iceberg appears days away from crashing into a penguin-filled island. These robots will study the aftermath.
Boko Haram claims to have kidnapped Nigerian schoolboys, in unverified audio message
A man claiming to be a leader of Boko Haram said the terror group was responsible for kidnapping scores of schoolboys in northwestern Nigeria...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 15 (IPS) – Just before the World Health Assembly (WHA), an 18 May open letter by world leaders and...
Japan ‘Twitter killer’ sentenced to death for nine murders
Author: AFP ID: 1608028380257363400 Tue, 2020-12-15 10:22 TOKYO: A Japanese man dubbed the “Twitter killer” was sentenced to death by a Tokyo court on...
Fire at Russian retirement home kills 11
Author: Associated Press ID: 1608033074567554100 Tue, 2020-12-15 11:46 MOSCOW: A fire in a retirement home in Russia’s southern Urals killed 11 people while three...
Russia reports 26,689 new coronavirus cases, 577 deaths
Author: Reuters ID: 1608035229727695100 Tue, 2020-12-15 08:20 MOSCOW: Russia on Tuesday reported 26,689 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, including 5,418 in...
Over 570,000 Uighurs involved in China cotton coerced labor
Author: AFP ID: 1608038333987871500 Tue, 2020-12-15 10:48 BEIJING: Hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority laborers in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region are being forced to...
Alleged Qatari expert ‘does not rule out’ French intelligence role in Samuel Paty murder
Tue, 2020-12-15 16:26 LONDON: An alleged Qatari expert on French affairs said that he does not rule out the involvement of French intelligence in the...
UK’s Johnson to visit India in first major trip as PM
Author: AFP ID: 1608040704548056100 Tue, 2020-12-15 12:04 LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will travel to India next month in his first major bilateral...
Physicists attempt to unify all forces of nature and rectify Einstein’s biggest failure
Einstein’s failed dream could ultimately become his ultimate triumph, as a small group of theoretical physicists rework his old ideas to explain the most...
UN marks 81 years of global cooperation 
Women ‘first to suffer’ under siege, first to step up as frontline responders in Sudan 
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West Bank: Guterres alarmed as Israel imposes sweeping closures after deadly Hebron attack