The people of Qaraqosh – a northern Iraqi city that was controlled by the Islamic State group from 2014 to 2016 – were rebuilding their city as Pope Francis arrived Sunday as part of a four-day trip focused on...
Israel opens restaurants and bars to customers vaccinated against Covid-19
Israel took another step towards post-pandemic normalcy on Sunday, opening restaurants, bars and cafes to vaccinated “green pass” holders, with about 40 percent of the population fully inoculated against the...
Prince Harry, Meghan to lift the lid on royal split in tell-all TV interview
After a week of digs at Britain’s royal family, just how far will Prince Harry and Meghan Markle go in their hotly anticipated interview with Oprah Winfrey?
10 years after Fukushima | Radioactive soil storage still a challenge
A decade after the tsunami and subsequent disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, workers are still cleaning up the radioactive topsoil. The waste will be stored there until 2045, when the Japanese government has...
Parisians protest COVID-19 measures
Protesters decry COVID-19 measures in Paris, France. The demonstration was organised by the ‘Angry Paris’ group. Under France’s COVID restrictions, bars, restaurants, museums, sports and music venues...
Mammoth tusks of up to 40,000 y/o discovered in Siberia
Four mammoth tusks have been discovered in a coal mine north of the Siberian city of Kemerovo. The head of the Department of Scientific Research and Expeditions of the Kuzbass State Museum, Dmitry Slobodin says that...
US Senate passes $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill along party lines
The United States Senate has approved a 1.9 trillion dollar coronavirus relief plan. US President Biden says it will give families struggling to pay their bills the breathing room that they need. The rescue package...