Новости за 08.08.2020

United States sent three planes with humanitarian aid and specialists to Lebanon

The flights ferried family members of the two pilots, investigation teams as well as the top brass of Air India

Some WeChat users have started to share backup contacts for a limited number of apps that are still available in China

Russian rescuers arrived in Beirut on August 5

South African liquor traders have called on government to strike a balance between saving lives and saving livelihoods.

Various cities and districts recently imposed new restrictions. ET looks at data from five metros: Two cities that didn’t impose fresh hard local lockdowns after the national unlock began, and three cities that did.

Those who escaped from the landslide at Pettimudy near Munnar on Friday could not find any reason to be happy as those who were hit by the natural disaster include some of their near and dear ones.

​​The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones index ended flat to slightly higher on the day.

US officials also believe China does not want Trump to win a second term and has accelerated its criticism of the White House, expanding its efforts to shape public policy in America and to pressure political figures seen as opposed to Beijing's interests.

Kim has reportedly vowed to stand by her husband in a future presidential election campaign – but is allegedly reluctant for him to plough ahead with his 2020 election dreams

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta is desperate to get Thomas Partey in over the line at the Emirates but the Atletico Madrid star would not be cheap so a number of transfers must go ahead first

Here are the complete odds to win Saturday's NASCAR race at Michigan International Speedway.

Derrick Ingram, a Black Lives Matter protester with the group Warriors in the Garden, livestreamed on Instagram dozens of police officers trying to enter his home. Hours later, police retreated without making any arrest.

Niko Goodrum drove in five runs, including a two-run double in a four-run 11th inning, and the Detroit Tigers captured a wild 17-13 victory over the host Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday. Jeimer Candelar

Stephanie Pappas, LiSci
Today's humans carry the genes of an ancient, unknown ancestor, left there by hominin species intermingling perhaps a million years ago. The ancestor may have been Homo erectus, but no one knows for sure the genome of that extinct species of human has never been sequenced, said Adam Siepel, a computational biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and one of the authors of a new paper examining the relationships of ancient human ancestors.

Cardi B is kind of giving a shout out to Nicki Minaj. While not naming her by name, in her latest interview with Apple Music, the 27-year-old rapper opened up how female rappers once dominated the music scene and why she thinks they got quiet. “When I was younger, when I was eight… No wait, [...]

The reclusive founder has expressed his frustration with U.S. authorities to ByteDance employees. In an all-hands memo recently, Zhang said he disagrees with CFIUS’s demand that he sell TikTok’s U.S. operations.

Brian Lovett, Undark Magazine
We are living through a period of cultural upheaval. Around the world, statues of iconic men who held racist beliefs and committed racial injustices are being ripped from their pedestals. The dull thud of metal bodies hitting concrete rings fresh in our ears, and many of us are still grappling with what these reverberations mean.

Michael Press, Aeon

The pharaoh was dead. Now the embalmers and the priests went to work: over the next several weeks, they prepared the body at length. They removed the internal organs, and inserted plant resins and spices into the body. The body was dried out with natron, a natural salt compound; it was washed; covered with oil and spices and more plant resins.

Democrats agreed to reduce their $3.4 trillion proposal but Republicans wouldn't agree to more than double their $1 trillion counter-offer

Greg Milner, The New Yorker
In the cool, dark hours after midnight on June 20, 2012, Todd Humphreys made the final preparations for his attack on the Global Positioning System. He stood alone in the middle of White Sands Missile Range, in southern New Mexico, sixty miles north of Jurez. All around him were the glowing gypsum dunes of the Chihuahuan Desert. In the distance, the snow-capped San Andres Mountains loomed.

The State Department confirmed on Friday that it was sending text messages to Russians and Iranians, offering a multi-million-dollar bounty for information on foreign efforts to meddle in the U.S. elections.

A sea turtle named Olaf is slowly but surely returning to his old self after he was rescued by the National Sea Rescue Institute.

Skilled man makes the lake his own