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Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday made the sweeping claim that the legislative filibuster has "no racial history at all" and further insisted that historians don't dispute his view—an assertion that historians immediately disputed.

The Government Accountability Office says defense officials did not give Congress enough notice before trading Taliban prisoners for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. They also report the D.O.D used $1 million dollars in unapproved money. Jeff Glor reports.

South Africa is playing an important role in the ‘hydrogen economy’ as the country targets clean and reliable alternative energy sources, Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe said on Wednesday. In his opening keynote address to the Platinum Group Metals Industry Day chaired by mining stalwart Bernard Swanepoel, Mantashe said that hydrogen energy was being considered as one of the most plausible choices for alternative energy and as an energy-carrier, owing to the abundance of elemental hydrogen on the planet. Читать дальше...

I first met Jake Vernon in first grade. He was a scrawny kid with a bad bowl haircut, and his face looked like a cross between Pee Wee Herman and a weasel. Grandma knew Jake’s family well enough to describe the Vernons as “the goofiest damn bunch,” which meant his family was more dysfunctional than ours. Nevertheless, I tried to befriend Jake as much as any other classmate. He had other ideas, though; one look was enough to convince him that whatever was going on in his head, I was the perfect outlet for it. Читать дальше...

(Telecompaper) UK telecoms company TalkTalk is introducing a new company-wide environmental policy to help reduce its impact on the environment in the coming years...

(Telecompaper) The Iranian government has increased the number of villages with access to high-speed internet across the country from nearly zero in 2013 to 35,519...

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A FORMER Brexit MEP ridiculed the relevancy of the EU which has now adopted "childlike" tactics to show off its importance.

The building that was once the largest health centre in the Kutupalong refugee camp, serving some 55,000 Rohingya refugees 24/7, is now a burnt, distorted shell after a massive fire spread through the Cox’s Bazar camp in Bangladesh this week. And as the tens of thousands of affected Rohingya return to the empty pieces of […]

Kongsberg Maritime will supply training vessel MS Gann with SAVe Energy battery system and hybrid shaft generators, in addition to power management, propulsion control and monitoring systems.

The panel expressed concern over a large number of vacancies in the posts of Information Commissioners in State Information Commissions and asked the CIC to furnish a status note in three months.

Ohio State player was told he should "die" after team's loss in NCAA Tournament

The Taliban has flatly rejected a proposal by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to hold snap elections within six months or a year right after a peace deal is signed with the militant group.

Tilly Niman, 18, from Leeds, used to hate looking in the mirror after classmate called her a hippo behind her back. In January 2019, she decided to go through a lifestyle change.

The United Nations Secretary-General on Tuesday urged all countries, companies and financial institutions to commit to net zero or carbon neutrality, with “clear and credible” plans to achieve the target, starting immediately.

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THE Prem’s Big Six are braced for frustration and disappointment over their attempts to force radical change on the top flight. Leading clubs now recognise there is no chance they can push through a reduction of the league from 20 teams to 18. While proposed revamps of Uefa competitions promise more money from 2024, the […]

THE Prem’s Big Six are braced for frustration and disappointment over their attempts to force radical change on the top flight. Leading clubs now recognise there is no chance they can push through a reduction of the league from 20 teams to 18. While proposed revamps of Uefa competitions promise more money from 2024, the […]

Qatar are set to take part as a quest side in the European Qualifying stages for the 2022 World Cup. When Qatar were announced as hosts in 2010, they were ranked 113th in the world.

As exciting as the entire Perseverance mission to Mars is, one of the events most looked forward to by us Earthlings must be the first flight of Ingenuity. After conducting numerous checks and double-checks, the Perseverance team has set April 8 as the date on which they hope to attempt the first controlled powered flight on another planet.

Prospective international travellers will learn more about the rules for going abroad this summer three months to the day after the latest lockdown began.