Mon 01 August 2022: The Kosovo government has delayed for a month the implementation of new border rules that have sparked tensions in the country’s north, where ethnic Serbs have blocked roads and unknown gunmen have fired on police. Following the incident, which left no one hurt, the police closed two border crossings with Serbia […]
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Sun 31 July 2022: The Oxford University has now taken a step that will surely be welcomed by people all over the world in response to the growing call for Britain to return valuables that their colonial forces looted. Following a formal request from Nigeria, the University is seeking to return about 100 artifacts to […]
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Sun 31 July 2022: Osama Bin Laden’s family donated one million pounds to Prince Charles’ charitable organization, The Prince of Wales’ Charitable Fund, According to reports. The Sunday Times reported that in 2013, two years after Osama was killed by US special forces at a compound near Islamabad in Pakistan, Prince Charles had met Osama’s […]
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Sun 31 July 2022: The White House reported that US Vice President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 once more, several days after he was given the all-clear to leave coronavirus isolation, in a rare instance of “rebound” following anti-viral drug treatment. White House physician Dr Kevin O’Connor said in a letter on Saturday that […]
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Sat 30 July 2022: The Russian energy giant Gazprom on Saturday stopped supplying gas to Latvia, following tensions between Moscow and the West over the conflict in Ukraine and extensive European and US sanctions against Russia. “Today, Gazprom suspended its gas supplies to Latvia… due to violations of the conditions” of purchase, the company said […]
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People stand in long lines to receive the monkeypox vaccine in San Francisco in July. Sat 30 July 2022: In light of the outbreak of monkeypox, the governor of New York declared an emergency in the state late on Friday. “I am declaring a State Disaster Emergency to strengthen our ongoing efforts to confront the […]
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Sat 30 July 2022: Brazilian authorities urged messaging platform WhatsApp to hold back the launch of a new “Communities” tool Friday until elections are held in October. The new feature would permit communications to be sent to 2,560 people simultaneously. Sao Paulo prosecutors argued in a letter sent to the company that the expansion of two non-application message groups […]
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Sat 30 July 2022: Russia’s foreign ministry on Saturday announced sanctions against 32 officials and journalists from New Zealand for supporting what it called the country’s “Russophobic agenda.” The list includes Shane Arndell, deputy chief of the naval forces, and Wellington mayor Andy Foster, among other officials. The sanctions bar the targeted individuals from entering Russia indefinitely, the […]
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Sat 30 July 2022: Researchers studying different social media platforms identify how algorithms play a key role in the dissemination of anti-Muslim content, prompting wider hate against the community. US Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar has often been a target of online hate. But much of the hate directed at her gets amplified through fake, algorithm-generated […]
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Sat 30 July 2022: New research suggests that great white sharks may be changing color while hunting their prey. An investigation was conducted off the coast of South Africa after a researcher discovered that great white sharks can have a skin deformity called leucism. Gibbs Kuguru, a shark scientist and PhD student at Wageningen University and Research […]
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