This month marks five years since the northern Iraqi city of #Sinjar – home to the #Yazidi ethno-religious minority – was liberated from the Islamic State group, under which it suffered horrific persecution in 2014...
French security law: Govt crackdown on filming the police causes outrage
#France’s lower house of parliament is opening #debate Tuesday on a security bill that would permit the imprisonment of people who publish images of #police officers with intent to cause them harm. Critics, including...
Film show: Behind the scenes at a Paris film shoot under lockdown
Film critic Lisa Nesselson speaks to Eve Jackson about the latest film news, including a report on location at a film shoot in Paris that’s under strict sanitary restrictions and a review of the British film...
South Korea to tighten social distancing, warns of new Covid-19 crisis
South #Korea will impose stricter social distancing rules for the greater Seoul area a month after easing them, officials said on Tuesday, warning of an even bigger crisis if anti-#Covid-19 efforts fail to dampen a...
Coronavirus pandemic: Moderna vaccine success gives world more hope
#Moderna Inc’s experimental #vaccine is 94.5% effective in preventing #Covid-19 based on interim data from a late-stage trial, the company said on Monday, becoming the second US drugmaker to report results that...
SpaceX astronauts successfully dock at International Space Station
Four #astronauts riding a newly-designed spacecraft from Elon Musk’s rocket company #SpaceX greeted their new crewmates aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday after successfully docking in a landmark...
EU urges Poland, Hungary to sign up to big money budget
With the European Union on the verge of an embarrassing #crisis, Germany on Tuesday urged all member states to put divergences aside in a bid to break a stalemate on the adoption of the bloc’s €1.8 trillion...