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Syrian properties in Ankara attacked after youth killed

Egypt Independent 2021-08-12
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ANKARA, Aug 12 (Reuters) – A crowd of Turks attacked shops and homes belonging to Syrians in the Turkish capital Ankara overnight in the wake of a street fight that led to a Turkish youth being fatally stabbed, a witness and media reports said. The windows of Syrians’ shops and homes...

Zambians vote in presidential election seen as too close to call

Metro USA 2021-08-12
photo: UN / Cia Pak
LUSAKA (Reuters) -Zambians started voting on Thursday in an election showdown between President Edgar Lungu and main opposition rival Hakainde Hichilema that looks too tight to call and comes amid mounting debt and a flagging economy. Polls opened at 6 a.m. (0400 GMT) with long queues seen at voting...

Hezbollah warns of anti-resistance psywar mean to throw Lebanon into crisis

Press TV 2021-08-12
photo: AP / Hussein Malla
The Hezbollah chief has warned of a “psychological war” against Lebanon’s resistance movement, saying the media propaganda campaign is meant to prepare the ground for a crisis in the Middle Eastern country. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made the remarks on Wednesday amid growing outrage at anti-Hezbollah...

Trump Keeps Rejecting Pleas From Allies for Pro-Vax Campaign

The Daily Beast 2021-08-12
photo: AP / Brynn Anderson
It’s been more than six months since Donald Trump left office and, despite pleas from multiple friends and advisers, the former president has kept refusing to mount anything resembling a real effort to get his supporters vaccinated. As COVID-19 continues to rip through the United States, Trump has...

Madagascar president sacks ministers, saying some were poor performers

Metro USA 2021-08-12
photo: AP / Themba Hadebe
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) – Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has sacked all his ministers, his office said, days after he criticised some of their performances as below par and weeks after officials said they had thwarted a plot to kill the former coup leader....

Libyan authorities exhume 9 bodies from new mass grave in Tarhuna

Anadolu Agency 2021-08-12
photo: AP / Hazem Ahmed
Libyan authorities discovered a new mass grave Wednesday in the city of Tarhuna, with the atrocity likely committed by militias of retreating warlord Khalifa Haftar. The General Authority for Research and Identification of Missing...

WHY HAS THERE IS NO CURE FOR HIV TILL NOW….

Community news 2021-08-11
For the last two decades, our lives are engaged with the deadly pandemic and our scientists are making many efforts to get this deadly organism out of our lives. But can we rely on them as the people rely on them many centuries ago when HIV was at its peak, but still now there is no cure. HIV is one...

Biden’s plan for a 'summit of democracies' is important in today’s world

The Jerusalem Post 2021-08-11
photo: USAF / Mike Kaplan
US President Joe Biden is reportedly looking to host a virtual “Summit for Democracy” in December. The summit will include both political leaders and people from the private sector and civil society. The summit "will galvanize commitments and initiatives across three principal...

On accountability and Andrew Cuomo’s rise-and-fall story

Columbia Journalism Review 2021-08-11
photo: AP / Seth Wenig, Pool, File
Yesterday morning, Rita Glavin—an attorney for Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, who has vigorously defended her client (including in a fifty-one-minute live interview on CNN) since a state report concluded that he sexually harassed eleven women—came out swinging again in a virtual briefing....

97 irregular migrants of different nationalities held across Turkey

Anadolu Agency 2021-08-11
photo: AP / Emre Tazegul
A total of 97 foreign nationals who illegally entered Turkey were held in the northwestern Istanbul and Tekirdag provinces, as well as in the Aegean Izmir province, security sources said Wednesday. Gendarmerie teams found...

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America Needs to Start Telling the Truth About Israel’s Nukes

New York Times 2021-08-11
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This photograph released by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) shows its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle

Indian launch attempt of earth observation satellite fails

Dawn 2021-08-12
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Canada needs US to break impasse in row with China: Experts

Straits Times 2021-08-12
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Mofeed Sabit, 64, sits on a couch along a road covered in debris, from an airstrike that destroyed a building prior to a cease-fire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, Monday, May 24, 2021, in Magazzi, the Gaza Strip.

Hamas rocket fire a war crime, Human Rights Watch says

BBC News 2021-08-12

Nature

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Siberia is a vast Russian province encompassing most of Northern Asia, with terrain spanning tundra, coniferous forest and mountain ranges including the Ural, Altai and Verkhoyansk, Feb. 21, 2017.

Siberia feels the brunt of climate change as wildfires rage

Urdu Point 2021-08-11
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Srisailam Dam is a dam constructed across the Krishna River at Srisailam in the Kurnool district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India and is one of the 12 largest hydroelectric projects in the country.

Over 160,000 miles of rivers are at risk of losing their free-flowing status due to dams

Phys Dot Org 2021-08-10
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Firefighters operate at Ellinika village on Evia island, about 176 kilometers (110 miles) north of Athens, Greece, Monday, Aug. 9, 2021

‘Unprecedented.’ Massive Forest Fire Ravages Greece’s Second Largest Island

Time Magazine 2021-08-10
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Secretary-General Antonio Guterres briefs journalists on climate change in New York,29 March 2018

World shudders at 'code red' UN climate report

China Daily 2021-08-10

Sport

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Chelsea players celebrate with the trophy after winning the UEFA Super Cup soccer match against Villarreal at Windsor Park in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021

Chelsea win 2021 UEFA Super Cup

Anadolu Agency 2021-08-12
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Japan's prime minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a news conference on Covid-19 official residence in Tokyo, Japan

Support for Japan’s PM reaches all-time low over Covid-19, despite Olympics success

The Guardian 2021-08-10
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Carmelo Anthony speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt NY

Carmelo Anthony ready to write new narrative with Lakers

The Los Angeles Times 2021-08-10
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Tokyo 2020 logo in Tokyo, Japan.

Tokyo Rewind, Aug. 8: The end of the pandemic Games, final medal count

9news 2021-08-09

Gaming

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A fire burns a house in Rovies village on the island of Evia, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Athens, Greece, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021

Greece fires: 150 houses destroyed by wildfires as monks refuse to leave stricken island

The Guardian 2021-08-05
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Rebeca Andrade of Brazil, celebrates after winning the gold medal on the vault during the artistic gymnastics women's apparatus final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan.

Andrade's story: from favela to Olympic gymnastics fame

Urdu Point 2021-08-02
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Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, of Puerto Rico celebrates after winning the gold in the women's 100-meters hurdles final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021

Jasmine Camacho-Quinn Won the 100-Meter Hurdles

New York Times 2021-08-02
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Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, of Belarus, runs in the women's 100-meter run at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 30, 2021.

Japanese Government Confirms That Belarusian Runner Tsimanouskaya Is Safe

Urdu Point 2021-08-02

Health

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Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-fourth session, 24 September 2019.

Ardern just mapped out NZ's next steps through the pandemic. Here's what she said

Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2021-08-12
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Dementia is a general term for loss of memory, language, problem-solving and other thinking abilities that are severe enough to interfere with daily life.

Artificial intelligence could be used to diagnose dementia

The Guardian 2021-08-10
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In this Sept. 11, 2011 file photo, US soldiers sit beneath an American flag just raised to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at Forward Operating Base Bostick in Kunar province, Afghanistan.

Contractors who powered US war in Afghanistan stuck in Dubai

Artesia Daily Press 2021-08-09
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Anti-Vax protesters gather to protest against the vaccine and the vaccine passport, during a demonstration in Paris, France, Saturday Aug. 7, 2021

France: Opponents of virus certificates protest for 4th week

North Shore News 2021-08-07

Science

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FILE- In this March 29, 2018, file photo the logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square.

Facebook bans firm behind Pfizer, AstraZeneca smear campaign

Detroit news 2021-08-11
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Person solving distance of points

Babylonians used applied geometry centuries before Greeks

The Jerusalem Post 2021-08-09
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Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance rover, imaged its calibration target for the first time on Feb. 20, 2021

Nasa’s Mars rover fails in first attempt to collect rock sample

Irish Independent 2021-08-07
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A customer, who chose not to be identified, reaches for a grocery bag near a depleted bagged lettuce shelf at a grocery store in Berkeley, Calif. on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2006. Amid a nationwide E. coli outbreak from bagged spinach, food safety experts say the advent of prewashed, packaged salad may encourage people to eat more leafy greens but could also create another avenue for illness-inducing bacteria

Eating more plant foods may lower heart disease risk in young adults, older women

Science Daily 2021-08-05

Business

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File photo: Visitors look at electric and hybrid cars during the first ASEAN electric vehicle and hybrid summit in Manila, Philippines

The future of electric cars in the Philippines: Inquirer columnist

Straits Times 2021-08-12
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In this Aug. 31, 2020, file photo, an employee wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus stands inside a Huawei flagship store in Beijing.

Huawei Developer Day 2021 set August 20; tech giant to announce latest local feats

Manila Standard Today 2021-08-11
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In this Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, file photo, a Boeing 737 Max jet, piloted by Federal Aviation Administration Chief Steve Dickson, prepares to land at Boeing Field following a test flight in Seattle

After long ban, Boeing 737 MAX tests its wings in China: Report

Al Jazeera 2021-08-11
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Tesla Cybertruck delayed to 2022

Stuff 2021-08-11

Coronavirus

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In this photo distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Dec. 3, 2020, A Russian navy sailor gets a shot of a Russian COVID-19 vaccine in Severomorsk, Russia.

Russia posts record daily virus fatalities

Asiatimes 2021-08-12
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Changchun Longjia International Airport Terminal T2 Domestic Departure Security Checkpoint - 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak

Asian shares fall as caution sets in on coronavirus worries

Wtop 2021-08-12
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In this Feb. 15, 2021 file photo provided by the Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures as he meets members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases in Davao city, southern Philippines.

Duterte awaits DOH response to COA report

Manila Bulletin 2021-08-12
photo: AP / Asanka Brendon Ratnayake
A lone man looks out towards the Yarra River and the empty Central business district during lockdown in Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020.

Melbourne extends lockdown as Sydney touts vaccine freedom

Wtop 2021-08-11