Police in India's capital Delhi have asked local authorities to identify more sites for cremations, as the city recorded its highest Covid death toll. A ferocious second wave is ravaging parts of India, overwhelming hospitals, morgues and crematoriums ... India reported 3,645 deaths on Thursday, which was another record ... Related Topics. .
The USSpace Force’s chief scientist has said that “human augmentation” is “imperative” in order for it to maintain military dominance ... the age of human augmentation,’ said Dr Joel Mozer, during an event at the Airforce Research Laboratory ... .
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan traded accusations over the worst clashes between the two ex-Soviet central Asian neighbours in decades that left at least 20 people dead, about 150 injured and 10,000 displaced over a water dispute. The clashes started on Wednesday with gunfire between the Kyrgyz-Tajik troops on the border for most of the day ... ... Read More ... .
Dozens of Palestinians are facing imminent dispossession from their homes in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in what they say is a move to force them out and replace it entirely with a Jewish settlement... The same court ruled another seven families should leave their homes by August 1 ... What has been the response of Jordan?.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for several, almost simultaneous attacks on military targets in central Myanmar, including air bases recently used to target ethnic armed groups in the nation’s frontier areas ... The ongoing popular resistance underscores what is by now widely seen as perhaps the most unsuccessful coup in modern Asian history.
The Democratic Republic of Congo announced a "state of siege" late Friday in two provinces in the east of the country wracked by violence from armed groups and civilian massacres ... .
Wednesday’s march in memory of the 14th SS Division ‘Galicia’ in downtown Kiev demonstrated not so much that Ukraine is a fascist state as that its leaders are guilty of turning a blind eye to the far right and of exploiting it. For their own ends, of course ... An example is modern day Ukraine’s attitude to its Nazi past ... It’s not remotely fascist.
MOSCOW - Russia on Friday barred eight officials from European Union countries from entering the country in retaliation for sanctions imposed on Russian citizens by the EU ... "The European Union continues to pursue its policy of illegitimate, unilateral restrictive measures against Russian citizens and organizations," the ministry said in a statement.
“If glaciers are what you are after, that’s the place for you.” The speaker was an prospector passing through FortWrangell, Alaska, in 1879 ... It was October.