Despite a massive reduction in commuting and in many commercial activities during the early months of the pandemic, the amount of carbon in Earth’s atmosphere in May reached its highest level in modern history, a global indicator released on Monday showed. Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) …
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Harris message to migrants: ‘Do not come, do not come’
US Vice President Kamala Harris is on a three-day trip to Central America, aiming to stem the flow of migrants to the US. United States Vice President Kamala Harris kicked off a three-day diplomatic trip to the Northern Triangle on Monday focused on stemming migration to the US. During a …
Read More »Four killed by car were victims of anti-Islamic hate crime – Canada police
Four people killed after a car jumped the curb and ran into them on Sunday night were deliberately targeted in an anti-Islamic hate crime, Canadian police said on Monday. “It was pre-planned and premeditated and that’s why first-degree murder charges were laid,” London Detective Superintendent Paul Waight told reporters. Waight …
Read More »Bezos in space: Amazon founder to go to space on Blue Origin flight
Jeff Bezos plans to be on Blue Origin’s inaugural New Shepard rocket flight with his brother, Mark, and the winner of the auction for the final seat. Just weeks after he formally steps down as CEO of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos plans to blast off into outer space. The billionaire founder …
Read More »US recovers millions in cryptocurrency paid to Colonial Pipeline ransomware hackers
The Justice Department has recovered the majority of a multimillion-dollar ransom payment to hackers after a cyberattack that caused the operator of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline to halt its operations last month, officials said Monday. The operation to recover the cryptocurrency from the Russia-based hacker group is believed to …
Read More »Senegalese navy seizes 8 tonnes of cannabis resin from boat
The Senegalese navy on Sunday intercepted a boat smuggling over 8 tonnes of cannabis resin through the waters off the West African nation’s coast, the armed forces ministry said in a statement. The vessel, which was flying a Togolese flag, was stopped 140 kilometres (87 miles) from the coastal capital …
Read More »Protesters topple statue of Canada’s Egerton Ryerson
Protesters have toppled and beheaded a statue of Egerton Ryerson, an architect of Canada’s infamous residential school system for indigenous children, amid growing anger over the recent discovery of mass graves at one such school. The incident occurred on Sunday following a rally held at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto. …
Read More »World Cup Qualifications: Iraq beat Cambodia 4-1 to claim the lead
The Iraqi national football team beat his Cambodian counterpart 4-1 of the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup in Qatar 2022. Iraq’s goals in the match that was held at the Muharraq Stadium in Bahrain were scored by Muhannad Ali in the first minute, Bashar Rasan in the 23rd minute, …
Read More »Peru election: Pedro Castillo gains last-minute lead
Left-wing candidate Pedro Castillo has edged into the lead in a dramatic twist in Peru’s presidential election. With 94% of votes counted, Mr. Castillo overtook his right-wing rival, Keiko Fujimori, who is running for the presidency for the third time. He has a lead of 0.1 percentage points, with just …
Read More »Google fined $270 million in France
Google fined $270 million in France for unfair advertising practices Google will pay a €220 million ($270 million) fine and make changes to its huge online advertising business as part of an antitrust settlement with French regulators. The penalty comes as the tech giant faces multiple US suits over anti-competitive …
Read More »Fire at Indian chemical factory kills 18
Eighteen people were killed in a fire on Monday at a chemical factory in the western Indian city of Pune, police said. The police said 20 people had survived the blaze and the charred bodies of all those killed had been recovered. An inquiry has been ordered by the district …
Read More »US FDA approves Biogen Alzheimer’s drug, hailed as ‘a big day’
U.S. regulators on Monday approved Biogen Inc’s aducanumab as the first treatment to attack a likely cause of Alzheimer’s disease despite controversy over whether the clinical evidence proves the drug works. Aducanumab aims to remove sticky deposits of a protein called amyloid-beta from the brains of patients in earlier stages …
Read More »NASA investigating UFO sightings, agency chief says: Report
NASA is now on the perplexing UFO case. NASA chief Bill Nelson, who assumed his post just last month, has asked agency researchers to look into the spate of UFO sightings that U.S. Navy pilots have reported over the past two decades, media reported. “Now that I’m here at NASA, …
Read More »Putin signs Russian withdrawal from Open Skies Treaty after US exit
President Vladimir Putin has signed legislation to pull Russia out of the Open Skies arms control treaty following the US exit from the pact. The United States initially left the Open Skies Treaty, which allows unarmed surveillance flights over member countries, in November in one of Donald Trump’s final acts …
Read More »Hezbollah official warns Israel of ‘fire of hell’ after Gantz’s threat
A senior official of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has warned the Israeli regime against another military adventurism, saying the aggressors would see “fire of hell” in the event of another war. Hassan Baghdadi, a member of the central council of Hezbollah resistance movement, on Sunday said the Israeli regime officials …
Read More »Kremlin critic Navalny is returned to prison facility after hunger strike – TASS
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been returned to the original correctional facility where he had been serving out a sentence after he recovered from a hunger strike at a hospital in a different prison, the TASS news agency reported on Monday. The 45-year-old opposition politician had declared a hunger …
Read More »Malta sees no new COVID cases for first time in 11 months
Malta registered no new COVID-19 cases for the first time in 11 months on Monday, but the Mediterranean island’s health minister urged people to remain careful to prevent any resurgence. “Today is the first day with zero cases since last summer,” minister Chris Fearne wrote on Twitter. “It is essential …
Read More »Al-Amiri meets PUK delegation; confirms: Our relationship is historic
The head of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Hadi Al-Amiri, met the delegation of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Baghdad to discuss the latest developments in the political process, Monday. A statement from Al-Amiri’s office, seen by Al-Ghadeer News, stated that “we discussed with the delegation of the Union headed by …
Read More »Spain squad in isolation after captain Busquets tests positive for Covid-19
Sergio Busquets has left Spain’s pre-Euro 2020 training camp after testing positive for Covid-19, the country’s football federation (RFEF) announced on Sunday. In a statement, the RFEF said Spain captain Busquets, 32, tested positive earlier on Sunday, with the rest of the squad all testing negative. The RFEF added that …
Read More »Mass grave discovered in Diyala, east of Iraq
A new mass grave has been discovered in the Iraqi province of Diyala. The grave, reportedly contains dozens of bodies of people massacred by the former Iraqi Baath regime led by Saddam Hussein, was found in an area between Kifri and Khanaqin, local media reported. Preliminary information indicates that the …
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