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Japan promises further aid package for Ukraine
Japan has pledged another aid package for Ukraine to support in the defence against the Russian invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday. Zelensky made the announcement following a meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya in Kiev, without providing further details on the scope or content of the aid. He said Japan has…
Read MoreMan arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle hundreds of tarantulas and centipedes on flight
A South Korean man was arrested in Peru for allegedly attempting to smuggle hundreds of tarantulas and centipedes on a flight back to Korea. The 28-year-old Korean citizen, who was not named by Peruvian officials, attempted to smuggle 320 tarantulas, 110 centipedes and nine bullet ants from Peru, but was caught at the Jorge Chávez…
Read MoreCEO in Charge of Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper Out After Allegations of Mass Employee Death
Natural Selection The head of the world’s largest and most ambitious construction project has stepped down amid jaw-dropping claims about its death toll. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Nadhmi al-Nasr, the CEO of Saudi Arabia’s futuristic city project Neom — which includes The Line, a planned pair of skycrapers that would be 100 miles in length —…
Read MoreScientist Says NASA Lander May Have Accidentally Killed Life on Mars
Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany, believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s. NASA’s Viking 1 mission in 1976 saw two spacecraft land on the Red Planet’s surface and conduct an experiment involving mixing water and nutrients with collected soil samples. The assumption at the…
Read MoreEstonia pledges further ammunition and equipment to Ukraine
Estonia is to supply Ukraine with further military aid in its fight against Russia, the Ministry of Defence in Tallinn announced on Saturday. The Baltic republic’s government has decided to provide Ukraine with various types of ammunition, uniforms, surveillance devices and protective equipment, according to the ministry. No further details were given on the scope…
Read MoreSituation in Gaza a ‘horror film,’ says Norwegian NGO head
The situation in the north of the Gaza Strip resembles a “dystopian horror film” and has recently worsened, according to the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). During a recent visit, Jan Egeland drove through “endless areas with completely destroyed houses.” Despite this, people are still holding on there, he told Germany’s Zeit Online…
Read MoreTropical Storm Sara nearly stationary, dumping heavy rainfall over central America
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Tropical Storm Sara is nearly stationary and producing heavy rainfall over portions of Central America, barely holding on to tropical storm status. In a Saturday morning update, the National Hurricane Center said the storm has maximum sustained winds of 45 mph, with little movement. It is expected to continue its slow…
Read MoreRenewed Israeli airstrikes on Beirut suburb
Israel on Saturday launched airstrikes on the Beirut suburb, the latest such bombardment on the area, a stronghold of the Lebanese Iran-backed Hezbollah militia. The strikes targeted Haret Hreik, part of the suburb known as Dahieh, and destroyed several buildings there, Lebanon’s state news agency NNA reported. The attack followed an evacuation order from the…
Read MoreWhy Chinese companies are also waiting for Sudan’s civil war to end
Chinese companies are ready to return to Sudan at a moment’s notice, according to a Chinese official, once security and stability are restored in the northeast African nation engulfed in a civil war. Multibillion-dollar Chinese oil and gas projects have been stalled or destroyed since the fighting began in April last year. Chinese-built and funded…
Read MoreGraphic video from Sweden falsely shared as ‘Israeli police beating Palestinian child’
Videos shared with false claims continued to flood social media as the war in Gaza entered its second year, triggered by Hamas’ unprecedented October 7, 2023 attack to which Israel retaliated with a bloody offensive in the Palestinian territory. Recent posts condemning Israel were repeatedly shared worldwide alongside a graphic video and a false claim…
Read MoreAP PHOTOS: 1,000 days of war in Ukraine captured in images
A thousand days of war in Ukraine have been captured in stunning images, many of them horrifying, some of them poignant, others uplifting. Since Russia’s all-out invasion of its smaller neighbour on Feb. 24, 2022, Europe’s biggest armed conflict since World War II has cost tens of thousands of lives on both sides. Thousands of…
Read MoreGlobal Conference for Israel unites American-Zionists in Dallas amid global tensions
DALLAS – The Global Conference for Israel is drawing people from across the world to Dallas. Organizers of this year’s conference say it’s a celebration of the strength and resilience of the people of Israel as they continue to rebuild and return home following the October 7 terrorist attacks. Inside the Hilton Anatole in Dallas…
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