Views: 5 The United States has imposed a fresh round of sanctions on high-ranking Russian officials and oligarchs, including the family of Vladimir Putin’s spokesman. The US Treasury announced the new sanctions, which include three immediate family members of Dmitry Peskov, the spokesperson of the Kremlin, on Friday. © Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden reacts at the […]
Views: 2 Chad’s ruling junta is scheduled to meet rebel leaders in Qatar on Sunday for delayed talks aimed at coaxing armed groups into joining a “national dialogue” on the troubled country’s future. © Brahim ADJI General Mahamat Idriss Deby took the helm after his father, veteran president Idriss Deby Itno, died fighting rebelsThe so-called precursor
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Views: 2 Compared with two weeks ago, portions of eastern Australia look almost unrecognizable. Over 16 days, unprecedented amounts of rain flooded Queensland and New South Wales. Blue waters became muddy brown and homes turned into swamps. The flooding event forced thousands to evacuate and caused at least 20 deaths. These images show the town
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Views: 1 The Walt Disney Company has announced it is taking steps to “pause all other businesses in Russia” following the invasion of Ukraine. © PA Archive DisneyIt is the latest in a long line of companies to suspend its business activity in the country as the conflict entered its 15th day. Earlier this week, some
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Views: 1 US actor Jussie Smollett has been sentenced to 150 days in jail after a jury found he had lied to police about being the victim of a hate crime. © Getty Images Smollet, seen here in March 2019, is known for his role in the TV series EmpireThe former Empire star, 39, was found
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Views: 1 People in Japan’s northeast offered prayers and carried out searches for the missing on Friday, 11 years after an earthquake and tsunami left 18,500 people dead or unaccounted for and triggered a devastating nuclear meltdown in Fukushima. © STR In the Tohoku region devastated by the tsunami, some met in the early morning along
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Views: 2 By Elaine Lies and Hyonhee Shin © Reuters/KIM KYUNG-HOON FILE PHOTO: Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a news conference in Tokyo TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol said they had agreed on Friday to ramp up three-way ties with the United States in responding to
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Views: 2 WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Warsaw’s mayor is appealing for international help as the city becomes overwhelmed by refugees, with more than a tenth of all those fleeing the war in Ukraine arriving in the Polish capital. © Provided by Associated Press Ukrainian refugees wait at Przemysl train station, southeastern Poland, on Friday, March 11,
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Views: 2 Russia has moved to block Instagram after its parent company, Meta, said it would allow calls for violence against Vladimir Putin and Russian soldiers involved in the invasion of Ukraine to appear on the social media platform. © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Chesnot/GettyRussian prosecutors demanded that access to Instagram be blocked on
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Views: 2 Earth’s interior is not a uniform stack of layers. Deep in its thick middle layer lie two colossal blobs of thermo-chemical material. To this day, scientists still don’t know where both of these colossal structures came from or why they have such different heights, but a new set of geodynamic models has landed on a
