Dec_31_009

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'Fragile generation' being hit as Marseille doctors deal with 'alarming' second wave

Go to any hospital in the southern French city of Marseille and you will see the impact a second wave of COVID-19 is having. ...

Body of well-known paraglider found in US mountains - weeks after he went missing

A well-known paraglider has been found dead in the mountains of Nevada in the US, nearly a month after he went missing. ...

Deal to prevent TikTok ban in the US plunged into peril

A deal to prevent TikTok from being banned in the US has been plunged into peril. ...

Ginsburg Supreme Court: Trump to name nominee by week's end

The president appears to have enough support in the US Senate to win approval for his nominee. ...

Coronavirus: Asia stock markets continue global fallout

Fears of a second coronavirus wave sent stocks lower but European shares open with small gains. ...

Mozambique: Why did these men shoot a naked woman dead?

The BBC and human rights researchers examined a video of a killing in northern Mozambique. ...

These countries are once again turning to fossil fuels in the wake of the pandemic

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Taiwan offers a glimpse into a post Covid world

New arrivals to Taiwan might be forgiven for thinking they've stepped back in time. ...

UK expected to announce new restrictions as cases surge

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Facebook Vows To Restrict Users If US Poll Descends Into Chaos: Report

Facebook Inc will take aggressive measures to "restrict the circulation of content" on its platform if November's presidential election descends into chaos or violent civic… ...

Prisoner On Death Row Digs 100-Feet Tunnel To Escape From Jail Cell

A Chinese drug trafficker on death row escaped from a jail near Indonesia's capital after digging a 30-metre (100 feet) tunnel from his cell, police… ...

Record Weekly Number Of Global COVID-19 Cases, Deaths Down: WHO

The coronavirus pandemic appears to be accelerating worldwide, with new cases soaring last week to a new seven-day high of almost two million, even as… ...

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Verheerende Waldbrände lodern im Westen der USA – ein Ende ist nicht in Sicht

In Kalifornien, Oregon und Washington wüten Feuer in historischem Ausmass – dabei hat die eigentliche «Hochsaison» für Waldbrände noch nicht einmal begonnen. ...

Afrikanische Migranten in Saudiarabien: «Wir sterben wie Ameisen»

Saudiarabien hat Tausende illegale Einwanderer unter menschenunwürdigen Bedingungen in Haftanstalten gesperrt. Die Corona-Krise hat ihre Situation zusätzlich verschärft. ...

In Corona-Zeiten haben Wahltermine in Ostafrika ihre Tücken

Ob Äthiopien, Tansania oder Uganda: Die Länder verfolgen ganz unterschiedliche Strategien im Umgang mit der Pandemie – aber überall leidet die demokratische Entwicklung. ...

5 new imported Covid-19 cases Tuesday

The government on Tuesday reported five new quarantined cases of the novel coronavirus, including a Thai national, as total cases rose to 3,511. ...

Car chase leads to arrests, seizure of 6m meth pills

AYUTTHAYA: Police arrested two men and seized six million methamphetamine pills following a car chase in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya district on Tuesday morning. ...

Chinese tycoon and Xi critic jailed for 18 years for corruption

BEIJING: A Chinese real estate tycoon and outspoken critic of President Xi Jinping was jailed for 18 years on Tuesday for "corruption, bribery and embezzlement… ...

U.K.’s Boris Johnson to Order Pubs and Restaurants to Close Early

As Britain endures a second wave of coronavirus, experts fear much worse is yet to come. But critics argue that restrictions damage the economy and… ...

China Sentences Ren Zhiqiang, Tycoon Who Criticized Xi, to 18 Years in Prison

The Communist Party accused Ren Zhiqiang of being disloyal. His lengthy sentence underscores Xi Jinping’s crackdown on dissent among the elite. ...

Rescue Effort Is Underway After Hundreds of Whales Beach Themselves Off Tasmania

About 270 pilot whales became stranded on the west coast of the island state in Australia. Rescuers estimate that a third of them have already… ...

Festakt in New York: Uno feiert 75-jähriges Bestehen – ohne Trump

Die Vereinten Nationen begingen in New York das 75. Jubiläum. Wegen der Corona-Pandemie schickten die meisten Staats- und Regierungschefs ihre Reden als Videobotschaft. ...

Oberstes US-Gericht: Die US-Republikaner bleiben hart

Alle Proteste der US-Demokraten nützen offenbar nichts: Der Mehrheitsführer im Senat, Mitch McConnell, will noch dieses Jahr über die Nachfolge der verstorbenen Supreme-Court-Richterin Ruth Bader… ...

Coronavirus weltweit: +++ Grossbritannien erhöht Warnstufe +++ Italien verlangt von Franzosen Virustest

In Grossbritannien droht nach Einschätzung von Experten ein rapider Anstieg der Corona-Todeszahlen, wenn das Land nicht umgehend gegensteuert. Internationale News im Ticker. ...

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Comet discovered to have its own northern lights

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has its own far-ultraviolet aurora, data reveal. It is the first time such electromagnetic emissions in the far-ultraviolet have been documented on a… ...

Ancient volcanoes once boosted ocean carbon, but humans are now far outpacing them

A new study of an ancient period that is considered the closest natural analog to the era of modern human carbon emissions has found that… ...

Possible marker of life spotted on venus

Astronomers have discovered a rare molecule -- phosphine -- in the clouds of Venus. On Earth, this gas is only made industrially or by microbes… ...

Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

Three months after the declaration of the eleventh Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the number of confirmed… ...

Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 – Sudan

On 9 August 2020, the Federal Ministry of Health, Sudan notified WHO of the detection of a ...

Yellow fever – French Guiana, France

On 23 July 2020, the France IHR National Focal Point reported a confirmed autochthonous (locally acquired) case of yellow fever in a 14-year-old male in… ...

Information for all visitors to ESA sites

Information for all visitors to ESA sites Coronavirus measures for hosted meetings and visitors ...

Plans underway for new polar ice and snow topography mission

Monitoring the cryosphere is essential to fully assess, predict and adapt to climate variability and change. Given the importance of this fragile component of the… ...

US West Coast on fire

Over the past month, dozens of wildfires have burned vast swathes of land in California, Oregon and Washington State, killing more than 30 people and… ...

Microsoft buys Fallout creator Bethesda for $7.5bn

Xbox's owner confirms it has bought the game developer ahead of the launch of the new Xbox console. ...

TikTok deal under new threat as Trump insists on total US control

The US president says he will not approve the deal if Chinese company Bytedance remains involved. ...

Twitter investigates racial bias in image previews

After users highlight problems, Twitter says more work on racial bias in algorithms is needed. ...

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