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Scientists say warmer winters can wreak as much havoc as hotter summers
Dec 19, 2021 06:49Warmer winters are happening across the globe, and can be drivers of catastrophic weather events and profound changes.
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Iran, a victim of weapons of mass destruction and nuclear allegations
Dec 01, 2021 07:06Currently, about 30,000 Iranians still suffer from the injuries they sustained during Saddam’s use of chemical weapons. This war crime, which occurred during Iraq’s war against Iran between 1980 and 1988, is never covered by the mainstream media to the proportion of its importance and significance.
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Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert
Nov 28, 2021 07:23Researchers in South Africa are racing to track the concerning rise of a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The variant harbours a large number of the mutations found in other variants, including Delta, and it seems to be spreading quickly across South Africa.
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‘Wake up’: Markets warn central banks to get a grip on inflation
Nov 28, 2021 07:18From the US Federal Reserve to the European Central Bank, policymakers are grappling with a surge in prices not seen for decades while trying to keep wobbly economies on course to recovery from the ravages of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Brexit: British cabinet minister ‘confident’ article 16 will not be triggered
Nov 23, 2021 14:24The French president, Emmanuel Macron, criticized the European Commission for failing to defend the interests of its fishers operating in UK coastal waters, while his maritime minister said Paris would “fight” for their rights.
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Europe’s COVID death toll could rise by hundreds of thousands
Nov 22, 2021 12:44The COVID-19 pandemic could cost an extra 300,000 lives in Europe, according to a study of the number of people in 19 countries who have been neither infected nor vaccinated.
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Why Iran has the right to be strict in Vienna talks?
Nov 22, 2021 12:22Iran’s President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi says the Islamic Republic is “absolutely serious” in its pursuit of the removal of all US’s illegal and cruel sanctions in the talks slated to be held later this month in the Austrian capital, Vienna, on the fate of the troubled 2015 multilateral nuclear deal.
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Massive COVID surge rattles Europe, putting US at risk
Nov 20, 2021 04:15COVID-19 is once again tearing a swath through Europe, with both infection and death rates rising rapidly. Over the last seven days in the U.S., infection rates have increased 14 percent to just above 86,000 cases. In that time, more than a thousand people died.
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US and its allies are fueling worldwide erosion of democracy, analysis shows
Nov 20, 2021 04:06Recent internal attacks on democracy and human rights by the United States and many of its allies—which often portray themselves as exporters of such ideals—are driving an overall erosion of democracy worldwide, according to a new analysis.
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Is the EU really shocked about the killing of a Palestinian boy?
Nov 18, 2021 15:25The European Union’s representatives in the West Bank city of Ramallah issued a statement expressing “shock” over the killing of Dadas, describing it as the “disproportionate use of lethal force.” The EU did not say what level of lethal force it would consider “proportionate.”