Month: January 2021

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Read MoreHeavy snowfall left three people dead across the country, trapped motorists, and shut down much of the capital.Heavy snowfall left three people dead across the country, trapped motorists, and shut down much of the capital.

Read More Tehran has rejected attempts by foreign companies to test their coronavirus vaccines on Iranians, President Hassan Rouhani said, adding that the country will purchase safe immunization for its population.   “Foreign companies wanted to give us vaccines so they would be tested on the Iranian people. But the health ministry prevented it,” Rouhani told…

Read MoreDebris from a missing Indonesian jetliner with at least 62 people including 10 children on board may have been found north from Indonesia’s capital Jakarta. The Boeing 737-500 was about one hour into its 90 minute flight over the Java Sea, traveling from Jakarta to Borneo island Saturday when it lost contact with the…

Read MoreThe U.S. Capitol has long been a symbol of freedom and democracy across the globe, and the attack Wednesday has created shockwaves around the world – with American allies and adversaries responding. Holly Williams reports on the globe’s reaction.The U.S. Capitol has long been a symbol of freedom and democracy across the globe, and…

Read More The co-founder of UK Black Pride, 45, on articulating her identity, rejecting an MBE, and bowing to no one At 11 I learned the colour of my skin would dictate the way I was treated. A school friend and I were out in Enfield Town, when a woman pulling a tartan trolley told…

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Read More Lawyer says he will sue city and Aurora PD officers Colorado attorney general opens Elijah McCain investigation Suburban Denver police officers will not be charged after detaining four black girls at gunpoint this summer and handcuffing two after wrongly suspecting they were riding in a stolen car, prosecutors said on Friday. Related: ‘He…

Read More A search and rescue operation was underway for Sriwijaya Air Flight 182, which lost contact with air traffic controllers shortly after takeoff from Jakarta, according to transportation officials. (Image credit: Flightradar24.com via AP) A search and rescue operation was underway for Sriwijaya Air Flight 182, which lost contact with air traffic controllers shortly…

Read More Three decades on from the deadly events in Lithuania of January 1991, the ramifications are still being felt, reports Oliver Carroll in Moscow Three decades on from the deadly events in Lithuania of January 1991, the ramifications are still being felt, reports Oliver Carroll in Moscow

Read MoreA search and rescue operation is underway, according to an official.A search and rescue operation is underway, according to an official.

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Read More Bemoaning Donald Trump’s Twitter ban, many of the US president’s supporters and other proponents of free speech have pointed fingers at messages from Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accusing the platform of double standards. The US president was booted from the social media site for good on Friday, as Twitter embarked on a…

Read MoreA Boeing 737 goes missing after take-off in Indonesia, believed to be carrying more than 50 passengers.A Boeing 737 goes missing after take-off in Indonesia, believed to be carrying more than 50 passengers.

Read More Boeing 737 operated by Sriwijaya Air and carrying more than 50 people is en route to Pontianak A Sriwijaya aeroplane with more than 50 people on board has lost contact after taking off from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on Saturday en route to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province, say local media. Metro TV…

Read More In the wake of an attack on the U.S. Capitol, Congress seeks answers from a secretive Capitol Police agency. In the wake of an attack on the U.S. Capitol, Congress seeks answers from a secretive Capitol Police agency.

Read More From a childhood in care to dazzling readers with her debut The Panopticon, Fagan talks about writing her third novel, channelling rage, and why now is a pivotal moment for us all For all that she was laid low early in the pandemic, and then spent months as a single parent trying to…

Read More The lowdown on the pros, cons and fees involved if you want to use such personal finance tools Lauren Burrows, a senior consumer writer at the website Money to the Masses, has tried and tested budgeting apps. These link up to your bank accounts, credit cards and investments, and pull in information about…

Read More The city remains the nation’s priciest for renters, and the pandemic has dealt a new economic blow to residents Apartment rental prices in San Francisco – a city mocked for being so unaffordable that residents pay more than a grand each month to sleep in a bunk bed and share space with strangers…

Read More Heavy snowfall causes travel chaos with Madrid airport closed and people told to stay at home Storm Filomena causes rare heavy snow in Spain – in pictures Troops rescued trapped drivers from their vehicles on Saturday as heavy snowfall from Storm Filomena caused travel chaos across Spain. “Owing to the forecast of snow…

Read More The U.S. Army revealed details on its path to developing countermeasures to protect Army aircraft from surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles. On 7 January, the Picatinny Arsenal press release said that the U.S. Army strives to increase aircraft survivability through the design, development and production support of countermeasures such as decoys, chaff, and flares…

Read More Kim’s comments come just days ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. Biden has promised “principled diplomacy” with North Korea, implying a break with Trump’s high-stakes summits. (Image credit: API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Kim’s comments come just days ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. Biden has promised “principled diplomacy” with North Korea, implying a…

Read More The events in Spain marked the definitive end of Francoism. Will the assault on the Capitol do the same for Trumpism? Tension was high, security was weak and a bitter handover of power was under way when violent intruders forced the people’s representatives to stop their debate and cower on the floor. Future…

Read More Forbidden desires, strange obsessions and a singular talent for suspense… Carmen Maria Machado on the dark allure of the writer behind Ripley Read The World’s Champion Ball-Bouncer, an unpublished Highsmith short story There has always been something fundamentally difficult about Patricia Highsmith. And not difficult in the way that most people mean it:…

Read More Local volunteers and schoolchildren will help build Kerdroya, thought to be largest classical labyrinth in world High on a Cornish moor, a living, breathing piece of artwork that is designed to last thousands of years is taking shape. Called Kerdroya, the piece is a labyrinth – billed as the largest of its kind…

Read More Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been hit by Twitter’s campaign of high-profile censorship, as the platform removed his messages blasting coronavirus vaccines from the US and the UK as “completely untrustworthy.” Khamenei’s remarks were posted to his multiple accounts, run in different languages, late on Friday. The Twitter thought police, however,…

Read MoreWith vaccines being rolled out, many hope for a strong economic recovery this year.With vaccines being rolled out, many hope for a strong economic recovery this year.

Read More The legendary VH-3 Sea King Presidential transport helicopter, better known as Marine One, is one step closer to its retirement, according to the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command. In a statement Friday, the Naval Air Systems Command said the Fleet Readiness Center East recently completed work on the last T58-GE-400B presidential helicopter engine supporting…

Read More France moves close to receive three E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes to replace its existing E-2C aircraft. According to a recent U.S. Naval Air Systems Command news release, France became the second international customer of the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, with a signed Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) to procure three E-2D aircraft from the…

Read MoreIt began with a May 4, 2009 tweet promoting Donald Trump’s upcoming appearance on David Letterman’s show.It began with a May 4, 2009 tweet promoting Donald Trump’s upcoming appearance on David Letterman’s show.

Read MoreThere are calls for Donald Trump to be removed from office. How likely is it – and could he pardon himself?There are calls for Donald Trump to be removed from office. How likely is it – and could he pardon himself?

Read MoreA look at how impeachment works and what Congress can do in the short amount of time until Trump’s term ends.A look at how impeachment works and what Congress can do in the short amount of time until Trump’s term ends.

Read More From cold baths to burning sage, there’s a self-improvement hack for everything. But do they work? This is a productivity fad that has become popular with Silicon Valley types, including Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Dopamine is the brain’s “feelgood” neurotransmitter, released when we experience pleasure. The theory goes that we are constantly mentally…

Read More Russell T Davies goes back to the 80s with a new drama about the Aids epidemic. Its cast and creators discuss sex, grief and Thatcher Russell T Davies’s drama It’s a Sin, charting the early years of the Aids epidemic in the UK, arrives on our screens with a pep in its step…

Read More Two-thirds of sales at end of 2020 were battery electric vehicles despite dependence on oil and gas drilling Norway became the first country to sell more electric cars than petrol, hybrid and diesel engines put together last year, new data shows, with battery electric vehicles (BEVs) accounting for two-thirds of sales in the…