A mass grave containing the remains of 800 German soldiers killed in World War II has been unearthed during construction work in the south-western Russian city of Volgograd, the German War Graves Commission said on Friday. The discovery in the once fiercely-contested city, previously known as Stalingrad, was made while water pipes were being laid, […]
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Australia could be the first country in the world to effectively eradicate cervical cancer if current vaccination and screening rates are maintained, according to a research in public health journal `the Lancet’ published on Wednesday. “By 2022, cervical cancer rates are predicted to drop to less than six cases per 100,000 people and thus be […]
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, is testing a number of envelopes sent to the Pentagon in Washington after a “suspicious substance’’ was found, a U.S. Department of Defence spokesman said on Tuesday. “On Monday, the Pentagon Force Protection Agency detected a suspicious substance during mail screening at the Pentagon’s remote screening facility,’’ Rob Manning […]
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A total of 675 migrants, including children and babies, were rescued off the Spanish coast over the weekend, a government spokesman told AFP. On Saturday, 405 were picked up from what are often unseaworthy people smugglers’ vessels, with seven children and babies among the African migrants. The rescuers were unaware of any who were in […]
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday fired warning shots at US President Donald Trump. She warned the US leader against “destroying” the United Nations. “I believe that destroying something without having developed something new is extremely dangerous,” she warned Speaking at a regional campaign event in Bavaria Germany, Merkel reiterated her believe that multilateralism is […]
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Indonesian volunteers dug mass graves for more than 1,000 bodies on Monday after a quake and tsunami devastated swathes of Sulawesi, as authorities — struggling to deal with the sheer scale of the disaster — appealed for international help. Indonesia is no stranger to natural calamities and Jakarta wanted to show that it was able […]
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Bread Production in Zimbabwe has dropped by half owing to foreign currency shortages and a poor wheat yield‚ with most remote and rural areas not getting any supplies. “Bread is currently at 50 per cent supply and we are only able to supply mostly urban areas‚” said Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe chairperson, Tafadzwa Musarara. […]
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North Korea’s foreign minister told the United Nations on Saturday continued sanctions were deepening its mistrust in the United States. The country says there was no way the country would give up its nuclear weapons unilaterally under such circumstances. Ri Yong Ho told the world body’s annual General Assembly that North Korea had taken “significant […]
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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says no fewer than 262 journalists were jailed in 2017 for “doing their work”. The group said at an event on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Friday that journalists were regularly threatened, attacked and killed, and also being imprisoned in record numbers around the world. CPJ […]
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A flotilla of small boats rescued all 47 passengers and crew from an Air Niugini flight that crashed into the sea short of the runway at an airport in the tiny South Pacific nation of Micronesia on Friday, the Airport’s Manager said. “It was supposed to land but instead of landing it was 150 yards […]
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