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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Amnesty International on Tuesday called for a commission to investigate crimes against civilians in Mosul by all sides in the battle to liberate the Iraqi city from jihadists. “The horrors that the people of Mosul have witnessed and the disregard for human life by all parties to this conflict must not go unpunished,” said Lynn Maalouf, director of Middle East research at Amnesty International. “An independent commission must immediately be […]
CHICAGO, United States (AFP) – The Minnesota police officer acquitted in the fatal shooting of black motorist Philando Castile has quit the force, officials said Monday. Jeronimo Yanez, 29, was found not guilty of manslaughter last month for shooting the 32-year-old Castile during a traffic stop last year, after the driver informed the officer that he was carrying a gun for which he had a legal permit. The death of Philando Castile — one in […]
WASHINGTON DC, United States (AFP) – Police arrested 80 people at the buildings of the United States Congress on Monday, as demonstrators voiced opposition to US lawmakers’ latest efforts to make progress on a stalled health care overhaul bill. Senators who returned back to Washington Monday after a week off — House members are due back on Tuesday — are under the gun as they struggle to craft legislation that will allow them to make good […]
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (AFP) – Kuwait, the United States and Britain Monday called on all sides in the Gulf crisis to resolve their dispute through dialogue and expressed “deep concern” over the continued rift. Their call was issued in a joint statement following talks between United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, his Kuwaiti counterpart and Britain’s national security adviser at the start of a Gulf tour in a bid to defuse the crisis. The […]
by Omar Hasan Agence France-Presse KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (AFP) – United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived Monday in Kuwait, the key mediator between Qatar and its Arab neighbors, for talks aimed at defusing the Gulf’s worst crisis in years. Tillerson will shuttle between Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia until Thursday in what is the first serious intervention by Washington in the Gulf crisis. He immediately held talks with Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (Reuters) — Doctors in California say transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can help ‘rewire’ the brains of people with depression, offering hope for patients whose condition is not helped by medication or therapy. Depression is one of the most common forms of mental illness, affecting more than 350 million people worldwide. It is ranked by the World Health Organization as the leading cause of disability globally. Treatment usually involves either medication, some […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) — A letter critiquing contemporary author Rachel Hunter for being “prosy” in her Gothic novel titled “Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villany” will go under the hammer at a London auction house on Tuesday (July 11). The letter is from Austen to Anna Lefroy, the eldest daughter of the author’s eldest brother Rev. James Austen. Auctioneers Sotheby’s expect it to fetch 80,000 pounds ($103,000) to 100,000 pounds. The auctioneers said that […]
Children and hostages are being forced to fight alongside pro-Islamic State gunmen waging a seven-week battle for a Philippine city, the country’s military said Monday. Militants seized Marawi, considered the Muslim capital of the Philippines, on May 23 in a bid to create an IS province, and over 100 remain holed up in the city despite intense military efforts to oust them. Some of the extremists are teenagers who may have been recruited and trained […]
Reuters — Superhero franchise reboot “Spider-Man: Homecoming” spun its magic on the United States box office, landing at the top spot in it’s first weekend. The film, which sees Tom Holland slide into the iconic Spidey suit previously donned by Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, pulled in an estimated $117 million according to Boxofficemojo.com. Last weekend’s number one film, “Despicable Me 3” slid into second place with an estimated $34 million. Third place belonged to […]
ZURICH, Switzerland (Reuters) — With demand for drones booming, both for hobby and commercial use, the race is on to develop ever-more intelligent and autonomous systems. Getting drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), to effectively understand and interact with their environment has proved challenging. Researchers from the Vision for Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich are teaching drones how to ‘see’. They’ve created algorithms to give low-cost, off-the-shelf, drones the power to explore their environment and […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany’s Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Monday compared the far-left and anarchist radicals who rampaged through the G20 summit host city of Hamburg to “neo-Nazis and Islamist terrorists.” A hardcore of militants among mass demonstrations against the Group of 20 meeting had burnt cars, looted shops, erected street barricades and hurled rocks and bottles at riot police during pitched street battles. In the worst unrest, Friday night in Hamburg’s Sternschanze […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — An unmanned National Aeronautics Space Administration spacecraft is about to fly over a massive storm raging on Jupiter, in a long-awaited a journey that could shed new light on the forces driving the planet’s Great Red Spot. The flyby of the Juno spacecraft, surveiling the 10,000-mile-wide (16,000-kilometer-wide) storm, is scheduled for 9:55 pm Monday (0155 GMT Tuesday). “Jupiter’s mysterious Great Red Spot is probably the best-known feature of Jupiter,” said […]
