MARCH 6, 2022
NEW DELHI: Around 93% of India’s population is living in areas where levels of hazardous particulate matter PM2.5 are worse than the World Health Organisation’s least stringent norms and air pollution reduces life expectancy in the country by 1.5 years (more than cancer), according to reports of US-based Health Effects Institute (HEI) released on Thursday. It flagged...
MARCH 5, 2022
Two Republican senators are facing backlash after tweeting photos of a video call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy even though participating lawmakers were told to not share pictures to social media while it was in progress.
Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Steve Daines of Montana posted pictures of Zelenskyy to their Twitter accounts during the Zoom meeting...
MARCH 5, 2022
The cover of Tom Clancy's 1986 novel "Red Storm Rising" (left), and a file photo of Russian president Vladimir Putin Putnam, Getty
In 1986, author Tom Clancy published a novel about a global conflict provoked by the USSR.
"Red Storm Rising" was one of two Clancy books that takes place outside the Jack Ryan-verse.
President Reagan reportedly...
MARCH 5, 2022
FILE PHOTO: AUSTRALIAN SHANE WARNE CELEBRATES IN SYDNEY. - Reuters/Reuters Photographer
MELBOURNE - Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison led a cascade of tributes to Shane Warne as the country woke up on Saturday to the news the cricket great had died from a suspected heart attack while on holiday in Thailand.
As many in the sporting world and...
MARCH 4, 2022
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) speak to reporters about Russia's invasion of Ukraine at the Capitol on March 2. Graham introduced a resolution to investigate Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) was sharply criticized by fellow lawmakers on both sides of the aisle...
MARCH 3, 2022
A member of the Cybercrime Centre in a lab at Europol headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands. Photograph: Peter de Jong/AP
EU police body accused of unlawfully holding information and aspiring to become an NSA-style mass surveillance agency
The EU’s police agency, Europol, will be forced to delete much of a vast store of personal data that it has...
MARCH 2, 2022
When she found out Russian tanks were rolling into Ukraine, Anna Myasnokova, 27, left her pet parrot in her apartment in Kharkiv and went to stay in the basement of her office building.
The next day, when she went back to visit her bird, heavy shelling outside sent her into the bathroom to hide. Once the noise quieted down, she washed dishes, just to calm herself.
Back at...
MARCH 5, 2022
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, speaks during a special session of the General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters on March 2, 2022 in New York City. / Credit: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images/Getty Images
United Nations – The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly during an extraordinary emergency session on Wednesday to pass a...
MARCH 2, 2022
A cargo ship carrying thousands of luxury cars has sunk to the ocean floor after 13 days afloat.
The 650-foot-long, 60,000-ton cargo ship transporting Porsches, Bentleys and Audis sank Tuesday in the mid-Atlantic, the ship’s manager and the Portuguese Navy confirmed.
Porsche customers in the United States were expected to be contacted by their dealers and will receive replacements in the near...
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
New Delhi: More than 400 specially trained Russian mercenaries have been flown in from Africa to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to a Daily Mail report.
A private militia, known as the Wagner Group, allegedly has orders from Vladimir Putin to take out Zelensky - and 23 other government figures - to allow Moscow to take over...
