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BEIJING (Reuters) – China would “be happy to” participate in trilateral arms control negotiations with the United States and Russia, but only if the United States were willing to reduce its nuclear arsenal to China’s level, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Wednesday. Washington has repeatedly called for China to join in trilateral negotiations to extend New START, a flagship […]
Read moreTwo-time world champion snowboarder Alex Pullin has died while spearfishing in his native Australia, local media says. Pullin, 32, was found unresponsive at a beach on Queensland’s Gold Coast on Wednesday, according to reports by multiple outlets. He was treated by paramedics at the scene but could not be revived, authorities said. Pullin was Australia’s flagbearer at the 2014 Winter […]
Read moreWe will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The US President’s bizarre post included boasts of great Americans harnessing electricity, inventing the telephone and the internet and winning two world wars. The tweet from the official White House account provoked widespread mockery for its hilarious […]
Read moreCALMATUIU, Romania (Reuters) – Romanian Alberto Gogu worked exhausting shifts in freezing temperatures at Germany’s biggest meat-packing plant. An outbreak of coronavirus infections there only made things worse. So he has quit and gone back to his home village on the River Danube plains to fix up his house and try his hand at goat-farming. The 44-year-old father of eight […]
Read moreGENEVA (Reuters) – Syrian and Russian planes have carried out deadly aerial strikes on schools, hospitals and markets in Idlib province that amount to war crimes, U.N. investigators said on Tuesday in a report that also condemned attacks by Islamist militants. They said that “indiscriminate bombardment” by pro-government forces, ahead of a March ceasefire brokered with Turkey, claimed hundreds of […]
Read moreThe world’s longest-surviving conjoined twins – who once performed at carnivals across the US to earn money for their family – have died at the age of 68. Ronnie and Donnie Galyon, from Beavercreek in Ohio, were joined at the abdomen since their birth in October 1951, when doctors deemed it too risky to separate them. Following their 63rd birthday […]
Read moreWe will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. A report by the International AIDS Society revealed that the pandemic could shatter the progress in treating HIV, TB and many other diseases. Research by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Stop TB partnership and Imperial College London have […]
Read moreWe will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. President Trump and presumptive Democrat nominee Joe Biden have been gearing up their campaigns for president in recent months. Polls have so far shown Biden with a steady lead over Trump for election. Trump’s approval ratings and […]
Read moreSANTIAGO (Reuters) – When most Chilean nurses finish their long shifts caring for the country’s many COVID-19 patients, there is little else on their minds but seeing their families, eating and sleeping. Not so Damaris Silva, who twice a week when she finishes her shift at 6 p.m. picks up her violin and returns to the ward. Silva, 26, spends […]
Read moreMaxwell faces up to 35 years in jail for allegedly grooming underage girls for Epstein to sexually abuse. Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred Monday to New York to face charges that she recruited women and girls, one as young as 14, for him to sexually abuse, the Bureau of Prisons confirmed. Prosecutors have asked a judge to […]
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