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A Yemeni journalist and her child have been killed in a car bombing that targeted her family’s vehicle in Yemen’s southern city of Aden, officials said. The blast was the latest to rock the seat of the internationally recognised government. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place on Tuesday, and authorities said an investigation was ongoing.
Source: aljazeera.com
Canada could face compensation payments to Indigenous communities worth billions, after a court found it had willfully deprived First Nations of the immense wealth extracted from their lands. The Crown has made payments to 23 First Nations of the Robinson-Huron Treaty territory since 1850, in exchange for a territory roughly the size of France. In 1874, the payment was increased to C$4 a year. It has not changed since then.
Source: theguardian.com
A sapphire and diamond brooch and matching earrings, which were part of the royal jewels from Russia's Romanov family smuggled out of the country during the 1917 revolution, sold for 806,500 Swiss francs ($883,641.94) on Wednesday, Sotheby's said. The price netted for the historic set at the Geneva auction was nearly twice the high-end of the pre-sale estimate, it said.
Source: reuters.com
A fire at a COVID-19 hospital in Romania has killed at least two people, according to local authorities, the latest in a string of deadly blazes at healthcare facilities in the country over the past year. The fire in the central Romanian city of Ploiesti broke out at about 4am local time (02:00 GMT) on Thursday.
Source: aljazeera.com
The EU needs to impose further economic sanctions, focusing on the individuals and “entities” organising the illegal migration on the border between Belarus and Poland, the Polish deputy foreign minister Pawel Jablonski has said.
Source: bbc.com
An 89-year-old Rhode Island man has achieved a goal he spent two decades working toward and nearly a lifetime thinking about — earning his Ph.D. and becoming a physicist. Manfred Steiner recently defended his dissertation successfully at Brown University in Providence. Steiner cherishes this degree because it’s what he always wanted — and because he overcame health problems that could have derailed his studies.
Source: apnews.com
Former South African President FW De Klerk, the last leader under Apartheid and a key actor in the country’s transition to democracy, has died, his foundation has announced.
Source: aljazeera.com
Heavy rains across southern India and Sri Lanka have killed at least 41 people, authorities said on Thursday, with weather forecasters expecting the downpours to ease in the next few days as stricken communities pumped out the deluge.
Source: reuters.com
NASA and SpaceX launched four more astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station late on Wednesday, including a veteran spacewalker and two younger crewmates chosen to join NASA's forthcoming lunar missions.
Source: france24.com
Curtis Means was delivered in Birmingham, Alabama, last year weighing just 420g (14.8 ounces). Guinness World Records confirmed that Curtis, who is now thriving at 16 months old, set the new record. A full-term pregnancy is usually 40 weeks, making Curtis nearly 19 weeks premature.
Source: bbc.com
Top Israeli defense officials say the country is preparing for the possibility of an armed conflict with regional arch-rival Iran and its proxies. Israeli army chief of staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi said Tuesday that the Israeli military was “speeding up the operational plans and readiness for dealing with Iran and the nuclear military threat.”
Source: apnews.com
The death toll following a devastating fuel tanker explosion last week in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, has risen to 131, according to authorities. Another 63 people were still being treated in four Freetown hospitals, with 19 of them being in a critical condition, Mohamed Lamrana Bah, director of communication at the government’s National Disaster Management Agency, said on Wednesday.
Source: aljazeera.com
London's Courtauld Gallery, shut since 2018 for renovation works, reopens its doors later this month after what it said was the largest transformation project in its history. The gallery, located in Somerset House, a listed building on the banks of the River Thames, has undergone a multi-million-pound renovation and restructuring.
Source: france24.com
A librarian in Indonesia's Java island is lending books to children in exchange for trash they collect in a novel way to clean up the environment and get the kids to read more. Each weekday Raden Roro Hendarti rides her three wheeler with books stacked up at the back for children in Muntang village to exchange for plastic cups, bags and other waste that she carries back.
Source: reuters.com
The first Nasa mission since 1972 to put humans on the Moon's surface has been pushed back by one year to 2025. The space agency's chief Bill Nelson confirmed the delay in a press conference on Tuesday.
Source: bbc.com
Iran has freed a Vietnamese oil tanker that it had seized for trying to “steal” its oil in late October following a confrontation with the United States Navy in the Sea of Oman. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in a statement on Wednesday confirmed that the Sothys was freed, but made no mention of its crew or cargo.
Source: aljazeera.com
The Wellington-based studio built characters and scenes for films including Avatar, Lord of the Rings, Wonder Woman and Planet of the Apes.
Source: theguardian.com
Rudd, known for his starring roles in Marvel’s “Ant-Man” films, “This is 40” and “Clueless,” was revealed as this year’s winner Tuesday night on CBS’ ”The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” The actor tells the magazine in an issue out Friday that some will be surprised by him receiving the honor.
Source: apnews.com
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