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Azerbaijan, Iran agree to mend ties ‘through dialogue’
Azerbaijan said yesterday it had agreed with Iran to resolve a diplomatic crisis through dialogue weeks after ties soured over allegations Israel’s military was active in Azerbaijan.
13 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Wives earn less than husbands around world
As gender inequality remains a social barrier in human development, according to a recent global study, the difference in earnings between a heterosexual couple persists across countries, over time, and across rich and poor households.
13 October 2021, 18:00 PM
British warship makes Singapore stop to reaffirm military presence in Asia
Britain's new aircraft carrier the HMS Queen Elizabeth made a stop in Singapore on Monday, part of a move to reassert itself globally and boost its military presence in Asia amid rising competition among major powers.
11 October 2021, 14:47 PM
3 US economists win 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics
Economists David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the 2021 Nobel economics prize on Monday for pioneering the use of "natural experiments" to understand the causal effects of economic policy and other events.
11 October 2021, 11:15 AM
UN urges states to do more to protect species
The global community must invest much more and raise the scale and speed of its pledges to protect nature and prevent species loss,
10 October 2021, 18:00 PM
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1138 - Earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, kills an estimated 230,000.
10 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Police rescue 126 migrants from shipping container in Guatemala
Guatemalan police said on Saturday (Oct 9) they had rescued 126 mostly Haitian migrants abandoned inside a shipping container as they hoped to travel to Mexico and on to the United States.
10 October 2021, 10:57 AM
16 killed in Russia plane crash
An L-410 plane crashed near a city in Tatarstan region on Sunday, killing 16 people and injuring seven, the RIA news agency cited the emergency services as saying.
10 October 2021, 08:47 AM
Czech populist mogul PM tipped for re-election
A populist billionaire prime minister at odds with the European Union who featured in the Pandora Papers was tipped to win a tight two-day Czech general election wrapping up on Saturday.
9 October 2021, 18:00 PM
100 dead or missing after vessels capsize
Over 100 people are dead or missing after nine interlocked canoes sank this week in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said yesterday.
9 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Nobel winning journalist says Facebook 'biased against facts'
Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa used her new prominence to criticise Facebook as a threat to democracy, saying the social media giant fails to protect against the spread of hate and disinformation and is "biased against facts".
9 October 2021, 11:18 AM
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Tea-to-software Indian giant Tata is buying back Air India, 89 years after founding it as Tata Air and half a century following its nationalisation, the government said yesterday.
8 October 2021, 18:00 PM
2 journalists who fought for freedom of expression win Nobel Peace Prize
Philippines journalist Maria Ressa and Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
8 October 2021, 09:22 AM
Nobel 2021 so... male?
All eight winners of the 2021 Nobel Prizes in medicine, chemistry, physics and literature have been men, re-igniting a recurring debate about diversity in the highly coveted awards, particularly those in science.
8 October 2021, 07:31 AM
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Suspected militants shot and killed two teachers in a government school in Indian Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar yesterday, the latest in a spate of targeted killings in the heavily militarised Himalayan region.
7 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Social media a 'coward’s palace', says Australian PM
Australia’s prime minister on Thursday described social media as a “coward’s palace” and warned that digital platforms including Facebook should be held liable for defamatory comments posted anonymously.
7 October 2021, 10:52 AM
Remains of ancient Indonesian woman changes views on human history
Genetic traces in the body of a young woman who died 7,000 years ago furnish the first clue that mixing between early humans in Indonesia and those from faraway Siberia took place much earlier than previously thought.
6 October 2021, 20:03 PM
Abiy replaces defence, peace ministers in new Ethiopia cabinet
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed yesterday appointed the former head of war-hit Tigray’s interim administration as defence minister, one of several shake-ups in his new government’s 22-member cabinet.
6 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Robots speed up Greece’s postal service
There’s a new addition to Greece’s postal service: a fleet of yellow robots sorting through the mail.
6 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to List, MacMillan for tool to build molecules
The Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David W C MacMillan.
6 October 2021, 10:03 AM