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New Zealand's Ardern extends lockdown as virus outbreak widens
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern extended a nationwide lockdown on Friday as the number of COVID-19 cases in the country jumped and the...
World leaders out of excuses on climate change, Thunberg, youth...
The world's children cannot afford more empty promises at this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), youth activists including...
Taliban urge Afghan unity as protests spread to Kabul
The Taliban called on Afghanistan's imams to urge unity when they hold their first Friday prayers since the Islamist group seized control of the...
What if you could become invisible to mosquitoes?
If you could have just one superpower, flight or invisibility, which would you choose? And would your answer change if you could become invisible to...
Recycling gives a boost to circular economy
Recycling, an activity once associated with empty milk cartons and hippies, is getting a corporate makeover. Last week, tyre giant Continental...
How Pax Americana concluded in Kabul
The unravelling of the effort to build a democratic, secular Afghanistan will pose a far greater threat to the free world than Syria’s meltdown. The...
Many killed in firing by Taliban, stampede as protests spread
Protests against the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan have spread to more cities, including abul, while the militant group called on imams to urge...
Aid trickles in as Haitians struggle to count lives lost in quake
Foreign food aid slowly trickled into more rural areas of southwestern Haiti on Thursday, arriving days after a major earthquake that killed at least...