China’s first Mars rover has driven down from its landing platform and is now roaming the surface of the red planet, China’s space administration said Saturday. The solar-powered rover touched Martian soil at 10:40 a.m. Saturday Beijing time, the China National Space Administration said. #JustIn: Video footage documenting #Zhurong rover …
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Einstein letter with E=mc2 equation written in his own hand sells at auction for £850,000
An anonymous collector snapped up the letter, penned by Einstein to a physicist who had challenged some of his theories A handwritten letter by Albert Einstein containing his famous E=mc2 equation has sold at auction in the US for more than $1.2m (£850,000) – three times more than was expected. …
Read More »2 dead, 8 injured in downtown Minneapolis mass shooting
According to the US police, shooting in downtown Minneapolis has killed two people and wounded eight others. Police say in tweets early Saturday that the 10 people shot included five men and five women, Associated Press reported. Two of the men died and another man was at a hospital in …
Read More »PMF announces cutting off ISIS supplies in Kirkuk
Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces – PMF announced cutting off supplies of ISIS terrorist gangs during an operation in Kirkuk. “After receiving intelligence information about ISIS terrorist elements on a daily basis, a force of the first special mission regiment began a qualitative operation within the villages of Zakalbana, Jayam, and …
Read More »Air India says hackers stole personal data of 4.5mn passengers, including passport & credit card info
Air India has said the personal data of millions of passengers was compromised as a result of a cyberattack. The stolen information included credit card and passport details. India’s national carrier and largest international airline informed the public of the breach on Friday. “This incident affected around 4,500,000 data subjects …
Read More »Iraq reported 3655 new COVID-19 cases and 4778 recoveries
Ministry of Health and Environment – MOH detected on Monday, 3655 new cases of COVID-19. This came in a statement by MOH: “4778 recovered cases were also detected among all the provinces of the country,” the statement included. 21 death cases were also recorded where 520491 are vaccinated.
Read More »Three ISIS terrorists arrested in Mosul
Iraqi security forces arrested three ISIS terrorists and the seized explosive devices and materials in their possession, south of Mosul. “A National Security Service unit apprehended three wanted members of ISIS, as well as a fourth individual who had been sheltering them in his home in the village of Malihat …
Read More »Hundreds arrested as Algeria cracks down on protest movement
Crackdown intensifies on pro-democracy Hirak movement by authorities. Several hundred protesters were arrested in Algeria as authorities ramp up efforts to quell a years-long protest movement that has demanded root-and-branch political reform. Said Salhi, head of the Algerian League for Human Rights, said about 800 people were detained in Algiers …
Read More »COVID-19 deaths in Latin America surpass 1 mln as outbreak worsens
The death toll from COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean passed 1 million people on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic worsening in the part of the world with the highest per capita death rate. From the dusty highlands of Bolivia to the Brazilian metropolis of …
Read More »Biden, South Korea’s Moon express willingness to engage North Korea
US President Joe Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday injected fresh urgency into attempts to engage North Korea in dialogue over its nuclear weapons, with Biden saying he would meet its leader Kim Jong Un under the right conditions. Biden and Moon said the complete denuclearization of …
Read More »India reports daily rise in coronavirus cases of 257,299
India on Saturday reported 257,299 new coronavirus infections over the last 24 hours, while deaths rose by 4,194. Total infections in the country stood at 26.3 million while the country’s total death toll was at 295,525, according to data from the health ministry.
Read More »Quake in China’s Yunnan province kills three, injures 28
A strong, shallow quake has rocked southwestern China near the border with Myanmar, killing at least three people and injuring at least 27 others. The Yunnan province seismological bureau gave the magnitude of the Friday night quake as 6.4. It said the tremor struck eight kilometres (five miles) below the …
Read More »COVID-19 death tolls are likely a “significant undercount”, WHO says
Official tolls showing the number of deaths directly or indirectly attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to be a “significant undercount”, the World Health Organization said on Friday, saying up to eight million people may have died so far. Presenting its annual World Health Statistics report, the WHO estimated …
Read More »Spain says over 6,500 migrants from wave of arrivals in Ceuta sent back to Morocco
More than 6,500 migrants out of the approximately 8,000 who had entered Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta earlier this week have been sent back to Morocco, Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said on Friday. Marlaska told the Radio COPE the situation was now “normal” compared with the previous days …
Read More »Bomb blast kills 6 people at pro-Palestinian rally in Pakistan near Afghan border
A bomb blast on Friday killed six people at a pro-Palestinian rally in Southwest Pakistan, police said. The bomb, which was attached to a motorcycle, targeted the vehicle of the leader of the hardline religious party that had organized the event, local police chief Jafar Khan told Reuters by phone. …
Read More »Palestinians celebrate victory, Israelis mourn ’embarrassing’ ceasefire
Palestinians in East Jerusalem al-Quds, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip celebrated victory against Israel, as a ceasefire unilaterally declared by Tel Aviv and accepted by Palestinian resistance groups went into effect early Friday. In Gaza, which had been under heavy Israeli bombardment for 11 days, people came out …
Read More »Bangladesh puts Rohingya camps under lockdown after COVID spike
Crowded camps that are home to hundreds of thousands of refugees placed under lockdown after the alarming spread of the coronavirus. Bangladesh authorities have imposed a lockdown in five Rohingya refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh after an alarming spread of the coronavirus, officials said. The shutdown will initially last for …
Read More »3.1 magnitude Earthquake hits northern Iraq
The Directorate of Meteorology and Seismic Monitoring in the Kurdistan Region announced today, Friday, that an earthquake has hit the Banjawin district of Sulaymaniyah Governorate. “An earthquake measuring 3.1 on the Richter scale occurred at 7:26 am this morning in Banjawin district,” the directorate said in a statement, according to …
Read More »New Zealand’s Ardern delivers welfare boost in annual budget as economy rebounds
New Zealand on Thursday lifted welfare benefit rates and promised billions of dollars more towards addressing rising inequality in its annual budget, as it predicted smaller deficits and faster economic recovery from COVID-19. The budget for the 2021 fiscal year allocated funds towards housing, healthcare, education, and infrastructure, while also …
Read More »‘Vaccines are satanic’: Bolivia battles fake news in inoculation drive
Bolivia’s immunization drive against COVID-19 is being hit by anti-vaccine misinformation that is stoking skepticism and leaving inoculation centers half empty, a challenge for the government facing a wave of new infections. Health workers and officials have raised concerns about low turnout at some vaccination sites, saying jabs are going …
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