Wionews A Canadian court granted bail to Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou who was held by authorities for the past one week after US officials accused the top executive of misleading banks about transactions linked to Iran. Meng, 46, was granted relief on a $7.5 million guarantee by a Vancouver court in British Columbia after three days…
Leon Willems, Director of Free Press Unlimited/Project Syndicate Despite global media coverage and condemnation by governments and human-rights activists, Saudi officials’ murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has not led to any meaningful sanctions. And such impunity is an important reason why the murder happened in the first place. The details of the brutal, premeditated murder…
Julian Wucherpfennig, Assistant professor of international affairs and security at the Hertie School of Governance & Anita Gohdes, Assistant professor of international relations at the University of Zurich/Project Syndicate This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to two activists for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence in armed conflict. But if…
AFP Illegal gold mining in the Amazon has reached “epidemic” proportions in recent years, causing damage to pristine forest and waterways, a conservation group said Monday as it released an unprecedented new map of the activities. “Illegal mining in the Amazon, notably in indigenous tribal territories and protected nature zones, has increased exponentially these past…
Tech Explorist Carbon emissions contribute to climate change, which can have serious consequences for humans and their environment. Carbon emissions, in the form of carbon dioxide, make up more than 80 percent of the greenhouse gases emission. Though, scientists are consistently working on technologies that use carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, as a resource….
Science Alert Earth is not the home you think it is. Far below the scant surface spaces we inhabit, the planet is teeming with an incredibly vast and deep ‘dark biosphere’ of subterranean lifeforms that scientists are only just beginning to comprehend. Hidden throughout this subsurface realm, some of the world’s deepest and oldest organisms…
France 24 Givenchy’s artistic director Clare Waight Keller Monday received the British designer of the year womenswear award from Meghan Markle, whose dress she designed for her wedding to Prince Harry. “It is such a pleasure to be here celebrating British fashion,” Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, said at the star-studded annual Fashion Awards at…
AFP Two Catholic school nuns in California have admitted to embezzling about US$500,000, and using the funds over the years for travel and gambling in Las Vegas, their order said on Monday (Dec 10). Sisters Mary Margaret Kreuper and Lana Chang, who are said to be best friends, took the money from tuition, fees and…
AFP NEW US research has found that men who include vegetables and leafy greens, orange juice, and fruit in their diet may benefit from a lower risk of memory loss as they age. Carried out by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, the new large-scale study looked at 27,842 men…
Science Alert Last year, uptake of home DNA tests sailed into the stratosphere, giving millions of people around the world a whole new level of insight into the ways their genes work, and helping predict their genetic risk for disease. But knowledge is a dangerous thing. New research suggests this kind of genetic knowledge isn’t…