Sat 09 March 2024: The Ukrainian war has claimed at least 10,703 lives, according to a UN report released on Friday. The deaths include “594 children” and 20,146 more, including 1,316 children, have been injured,” Mohamed Khaled Khiar, UN assistant head for Middle East, Asia and Pacific, said at a Security Council meeting on Ukraine. […]
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Sat 09 March 2024: The Pentagon released a study Friday about UFOs, aliens and extraterrestrial intelligence and said it has found no evidence of their existence after investigating sightings of nearly eight decades of unidentified flying objects, according to reports. “All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects […]
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Sat 09 March 2024: The US government has narrowly avoided a partial shutdown after senators approved a $460bn package of spending bills before a midnight deadline that would have shuttered many key federal agencies. The lower house on Friday voted 75-22 to approve a $460bn spending package of six bills that will fund agriculture, transportation, […]
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Fri 08 March 2024: The US Embassy in Russia on Friday called on its citizens to avoid gatherings in Moscow for the next 48 hours, saying “extremists” have plans to target them. “The embassy is monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, including concerts, and US citizens should be […]
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Fri 08 March 2024: Russia’s FSB security service said Thursday it had killed Islamic State militants who were planning a “terrorist attack” on a Moscow synagogue, Russian state news agencies reported. The FSB said an IS cell based in Kaluga, southwest of Moscow, had been planning to shoot Jewish worshippers at a synagogue in the capital. “While being […]
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Fri 08 March 2024: Israel’s police forces say that Israelis will be allowed to visit Al-Aqsa Mosque compound during the first week of Ramadan. The statement quoted by The Associated Press news agency raised concerns about the access for Palestinians to the revered site during the holy month. The authorities in Israel say they will […]
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Gonococci (or Neisseria gonorrhoeae) in an uretral pus. This bacterium is reponsible for Gonorrhea (blennorrhagia or clap), urethritis, vaginitis (sexually transmitted disease). Fri 08 March 2024: Europe has seen a worrying spike in sexually transmitted infections (STIs), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said on Thursday. The ECDC said that this […]
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Fri 08 March 2024: Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has handed over Sweden’s instruments of accession to NATO to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a ceremony in Washington. “Good things come to those who wait,” said Blinken. “With receipt of this instrument of accession let me be the very first to welcome Sweden […]
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Fri 08 March 2024: State of emergency declared after unrest worsens and thousands of prisoners break out of jail. Haiti’s director of National Police has warned the capital is at war. Port-au-Prince has been overrun by gangs. A state of emergency has been declared after gang members attacked two prisons over the weekend – freeing […]
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A mural depicting an Inuit woman and a polar bear in Nuuk, Greenland. Thu 07 March 2024: Greenland’s Indigenous women have opted to sue Denmark for failing to meet their compensation claim of roughly 43 million kroner (approximately $6.3 million) for forcing them to use involuntary birth control in the 1960s and 1970s, Danish […]
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