Create your page here
We cannot find results, please try another search request.
photo: Creative Commons
Brother of North Korea's founder dies: state media
Korea Times 15 Dec 2021
This 2015 file photo captured from North Korea's state TV shows Kim Yong-ju, a brother of the North's founder Kim Il-sung. Pyongyang's state media confirmed his death on Dec. 15. Yonhap ... (Yonhap). .
photo: AP / Bernat Armangue
Mothers selling children to feed family - UN food chief
RTE 15 Dec 2021
The head of the World Food Programme has said the UN agency is facing a perfect storm where conflict, climate and Covid are coming together to create unprecedented suffering in poorer and war-torn countries ... The UN is warning that nearly 23m people in Afghanistan – about 55% of the population – are facing extreme levels of hunger ... .
photo: AP / Laura Betz/NASA
James Webb: A $10bn machine in search of the end of darkness
BBC News 15 Dec 2021
Darkness. Total and complete. Few of us get to experience it. At the bottom of a cave, perhaps; or in a basement when the power shuts off. But there's usually some faint glow coming from somewhere. Even the night sky never seems truly black, not least because there's usually a star or two twinkling in the distance ... Where do we come from? ... .
photo: AP / Ringo H.W. Chiu
Elon Musk calls Elizabeth Warren ‘Senator Karen’ in bitter exchange over taxes
The Independent 15 Dec 2021
On Monday, after Musk was chosen as Time magazine’s person of the year, the Massachusetts senator wrote on Twitter ... .
photo: AP / Charles Sykes/Invision
Grimes calls Elon Musk an ‘icon’ for cutting his own hair for Time cover
New York Post 15 Dec 2021
Who needs a glam squad?. Elon Musk was named Time’s 2021 Person of the Year on Monday, topping the magazine’s annual list of influential figures and gracing its cover with a slicked-back, half-shaved hairstyle. And it would seem his ex-girlfriend, Grimes, approves of the ‘do ... “No stylist, no makeup either haha,” Musk, 50, replied on Tuesday ... ....
photo: AP / Ahmad Halabisaz
Afghanistan: Government collapse marked by ‘repeated war crimes and relentless bloodshed’ – new report
Amnesty 15 Dec 2021
The Taliban, United States military, and Afghan security forces were all responsible for attacks that resulted in extensive civilian suffering before the country’s government collapsed earlier this year, Amnesty International said in a new report today. The report, No Escape ... Taliban atrocities ... One of the men captured by the Taliban said ... He said ... .
photo: AP / Shiraaz Mohamed
South Africa's High Court orders former president Zuma to go back to jail
The Times of India 15 Dec 2021
JOHANNESBURG. South Africa's High Court ordered former President Jacob Zuma to return to jail after setting aside the decision to release him on medical parole, a court judgement showed on Wednesday ... Start a Conversation. .
photo: US DoD / Freddie Everett
UN calls on US, Iran to return to terms of nuclear deal
Urdu Point 15 Dec 2021
United Nations, United States, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 15th Dec, 2021 ) .The UN Tuesday urged Washington to lift sanctions on Tehran in line with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, while calling on the Islamic republic to return to commitments to limit its nuclear program ... ....
photo: Creative Commons / crommelincklars
Billie Eilish says watching porn gave her nightmares and ‘destroyed my brain’
The Guardian 15 Dec 2021
....
photo: AP / The Moab Police Department
‘It’s still unbelievable’: Family of Gabby Petito recall torment of searching for daughter
The Independent 15 Dec 2021
A new documentary that features members of Gabby Petito’s family being interviewed is set to be released this week – three months after her disappearance. A trailer for the film, titled, The Murder of Gabby Petito. Truth, Lies and Social Media is already available to watch, ahead of its full release on streaming platform Peacock this Friday ... .
photo: Creative Commons
Paris taxi firm suspends use of Tesla cars after fatal accident
Straits Times 15 Dec 2021
PARIS (REUTERS) - Leading Paris taxi company G7 has suspended the use of Tesla Model 3 cars in its fleet after a fatal accident involving one of the vehicles over the weekend. G7 deputy chief executive Yann Ricordel said an off-duty taxi driver was taking his family to a restaurant when the accident happened last Saturday�evening (Dec 11) ... � ....
photo: AP
The Threat of a China-Centric New World Order
The American Spectator 15 Dec 2021
Writing in the January/February 2022 issue of Foreign Affairs, the Hoover Institution’s Elizabeth Economy explores Chinese President Xi Jinping’s efforts to shape the international order by “fundamentally transforming the global system” to reflect Beijing’s interests and values ... Economy notes in her article that the Sino-U.S ... The U.S ... (READ MORE ... .
photo: AP / Dieu Nalio Chery
Haitian president was working on list of powerful people involved in drug trade to give US officials before his assassination, report says - The Independent
WorldNews.com 14 Dec 2021
A new report suggests that the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti was meant to stop him from implicating powerful people as participants and beneficiaries in the world of drug trafficking. In July, armed cartel hitmen burst into Mr Moïse's residence and gunned him down in his bedroom, leaving his wife...read full story. .
photo: NASA / James Yungel
Alarming cracks in ‘Doomsday’ glacier
The Daily Telegraph Australia 14 Dec 2021
One of the largest glaciers in Antarctica, known as the “Doomsday glacier”, is experiencing dramatic changes and this could have serious consequences for sea level rise in as little as five years ....
photo: UN / Rick Bajornas
Kenya detects first case of Omicron variant
The Times of India 15 Dec 2021
NAIROBI. Kenya has detected its first case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, the country's health minister said on Wednesday. "We have detected the Omicron variant among passengers in airports," said Mutahi Kagwe, without specifying when and where the variant was first identified ... Start a Conversation. .