[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other this week of attacking civilian areas after days of fighting, the deadliest in the South Caucasus region since the 1990s when 30,000 people were killed. Hundreds of people have been killed in the latest outbreak of war over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountain enclave that belongs to Azerbaijan under […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Southern France was lashed by torrential rain and swollen rivers that have swept away houses, bridges and parts of roads. Four people have died and up to 18 more are missing in these floods and heavy rains, according to local authorities.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Britain has imposed sanctions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and seven other officials over election fraud and violence against protesters. According to Britain’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, “There is a vanishing window to influence what is playing out in Belarus and we believe the time to take action is now.”
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] President Donald Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, and she pledged to become a justice in the mold of the late Antonin Scalia. If she replaces liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barrett would become the fifth woman ever to serve on the court and would push its conservative majority to […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The Israeli cyber-security chief said that Israel and the United Arabic Nations share threats to their national online networks during a rare public discussion of potential cooperation with his counterpart. The establishment of formal Israel-UAE ties over the last month unleashed a flurry of bilateral deals, including on cyber technologies.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The Israeli cyber-security chief said that Israel and the United Arabic Nations share threats to their national online networks during a rare public discussion of potential cooperation with his counterpart. The establishment of formal Israel-UAE ties over the last month unleashed a flurry of bilateral deals, including on cyber technologies.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden battled fiercely over Trump’s record on the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare and the economy in a chaotic first debate marked by personal insults and Trump’s repeated interruptions.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The United States has imposed restrictions on exports to China’s biggest chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (or SMIC) after concluding there is an “unacceptable risk” equipment supplied to it could be used for military purposes.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Royal Dutch Shell is looking to slash up to 40% off the cost of producing oil and gas in a major drive to save cash so it can overhaul its business and focus more on renewable energy and power markets.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] In the forests and on the remote offshore islands of Taiwan, a group of conservationists are r collecting as many rare plant species as they can. Overseen by the Dr. Cecilia Koo Botanic Conservation Centre, the plant hunters are scouring sub-tropical Taiwan for as many rare plant samples as they can find in […]
