The team used machines to unearth graves, but used hand tools once coffins were located. (Supplied) Fri 27 December 2024: Archaeologists have completed the largest mass exhumation in Australian history from an old cemetery, which led to the discovery of almost 2,000 bodies that were believed to have been moved from the old graveyard over […]
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Fri 27 December 2024: The holiday season is here, and streets are filled with festive sparkles, twinkling lights and cheerful Christmas songs. While many of us are looking forward to spending the holiday period with family and friends, Christmas is anything but jolly for others. Some people are dreading to spend the period without loved […]
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Fri 27 December 2024: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled new discoveries about the early universe since its launch on Dec. 25, 2021, offering groundbreaking insights into the cosmos. Compiled from open sources by Anadolu, JWST’s findings over the past three years span studies on the Solar System, the Milky Way, the first […]
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Thu 26 December 2024: The wife of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is severely ill with leukaemia and has been given a fifty percent chance of survival, according to media reports. Asma al-Assad was kept in isolation to “avoid infection” and was prohibited from sharing a room with others, a report by the British Daily Telegraph newspaper said. Her leukaemia had […]
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Thu 26 December 2024: Hundreds of people held demonstrations in Japan over the weekend, seeking apology from the US military over a sexual assault case involving a serviceman. Governor Tamaki Denny was among the crowd in the southernmost Okinawa province where the protests were held. They demanded the US military “give an apology and compensation […]
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Thu 26 December 2024: In Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr Strangelove, the world teeters on the edge of nuclear annihilation, not because of some grand strategic masterstroke by a villain, but due to paranoia, hubris and the failure to interrogate our own assumptions. The war room is filled with men so consumed by ideology and self-interest […]
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Thu 26 December 2024: Syria’s new interim government is reportedly set to demand $300 billion in compensation from Iran for the damage it caused to the war-torn country throughout the civil war. According to the outlet Al-Modon, an unnamed source close to Syria’s new post-Assad administration as saying that a compensation of $300 billion is intended […]
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Thu 26 December 2024: Gold soared to all-time highs in 2024, hitting a record $2,790 per ounce in October, with strong demand for the precious metal expected to continue next year as one of the main safe-haven assets, led by geopolitical risks, central bank purchases and the US Federal Reserve’s rate cut cycle. Gold ended […]
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Thu 26 December 2024: Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence software that can determine the timing of a stroke and whether treatment is feasible with twice the accuracy compared to conventional methods. Researchers from Imperial College London in the UK, the Technical University of Munich in Germany and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: Israeli soldiers are increasingly engaging in acts of brutality and war crimes in Gaza, with the appearance of more “callous” and “ideologically violent” troops, according to a detailed analysis published in Haaretz by Professor Yoel Elizur, former chair of the Council of Psychologists and emeritus professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The […]
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