MELBOURNE: Australia’s top military official said today the country’s defence force must ‘own’ a recent report on soldiers committing crimes in Afghanistan and pledged changes to ensure that atrocities do not happen again. The report, published on Thursday after an inquiry into the conduct of special forces personnel in Afghanistan […]
Day: November 21, 2020
WASHINGTON: A COVID-19 antibody therapy used to treat President Donald Trump was approved by the US drug regulator on Saturday (Nov 21) for people who aren’t yet hospitalised by the disease but are at high risk. The green light for drugmaker Regeneron came after REGEN-COV2, a combination of two lab-made […]
DOHA (Qatar): US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Afghan government and Taliban negotiators in Doha, calling for them to speed up their peace talks as Washington accelerates its military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Pompeo “called for a significant reduction in violence and encouraged expedited discussions on a political roadmap and […]
WASHINGTON: A federal judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit critical to President Donald Trump’s long-shot bid to overturn his Nov. 3 election loss to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden, calling his legal claim a “Frankenstein’s Monster.” The Trump campaign had sought to prevent state officials from certifying the results of the election […]
RIYADH: Mask-clad reporters filed into a Riyadh ballroom-turned-media centre yesterday after mandatory temperature checks, to cover physically a virtual G20 summit originally conceived as a grand coming-out party for host Saudi Arabia. The media room in the capital’s Crown Plaza hotel would have been buzzing with hundreds of international reporters […]
WASHINGTON: Twitter confirmed yesterday it will hand control of the presidential @POTUS account to Joe Biden when he is sworn in on inauguration day, even if President Donald Trump has not conceded his election loss. “Twitter is actively preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on […]
BEIJING: President Xi Jinping said on Saturday (Nov 21) that China is ready to step up global COVID-19 vaccine cooperation, and called for better international coordination on policies to facilitate movement of people. Pharmaceutical companies and research centres around the world are working on potential COVID-19 vaccines, with large global […]
PARIS: Europe is set to lift its flight ban on the Boeing 737 MAX passenger jetliner in January after US regulators last week ended a 20-month grounding triggered by two fatal crashes. The head of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said in remarks aired on Saturday (Nov […]
BEIJING: Leaders of the 20 biggest economies on Saturday (Nov 21) vowed to ensure a fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, drugs and tests around the world and do what was needed to support poorer countries struggling to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. “We will spare no effort to ensure their […]
The spirited songbirds can rapidly memorize the signature sounds of at least 50 different members of their flock In findings recently published in the journal Science Advances, these boisterous, red-beaked songbirds, known as zebra finches, have been shown to pick one another out of a crowd (or flock) based on […]