Germany to lift most COVID-19 restrictions
BERLIN: Germany will lift most restrictions to contain the coronavirus despite infections hitting a record in the country on Thursday. Chancellor Olaf Scholz said after...
UN says hundreds of civilians killed in Ukraine, urges investigation
UNITED NATIONS: More than 700 civilians – including 52 children – have been killed in Ukraine since Russia invaded three weeks ago, but the “actual...
Blinken says war crimes committed in Ukraine, US experts working to document attacks
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday (Mar 17) said he agrees with President Joe Biden that war crimes have been committed in Ukraine...
NASA rolls out its mega Moon rocket – here’s what you need to know
TO THE MOON AND BEYOND NASA is targeting May as the earliest window for Artemis-1, an uncrewed lunar mission that will be the first integrated...
US citizen killed in Ukraine while waiting in bread line, family says
WASHINGTON: A US citizen was killed in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv while waiting in a bread line amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, his...
Russia pulls UN vote on Ukraine over ‘arm-twisting’ claims
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council will no longer vote on Friday (Mar 18) on a Russian-drafted call for aid access and civilian protection in Ukraine...
Russian cosmonauts set for Friday launch to International Space Station
Three Russian cosmonauts were due for launch on Friday (Mar 18) to the International Space Station (ISS), continuing a two-decade-plus shared Russian-US presence aboard the orbiting outpost...
Missiles strike Lviv as Biden looks to pressure Xi to abandon Moscow
BIDEN PUTTING PRESSURE ON BEIJING With financial sanctions and diplomatic ostracism cutting Russia off from advanced economies worldwide, China is Russia’s last big economic lifeline....
36-million-year-old whale fossil found in Peru
LIMA: Paleontologists have unearthed the skull of a ferocious marine predator, an ancient ancestor of modern-day whales, which once lived in a prehistoric ocean that...
World Food Programme says food supply chains ‘falling apart’ in Ukraine
GENEVA: A World Food Programme (WFP) official said on Friday (Mar 18) that food supply chains in Ukraine were collapsing, with a portion of infrastructure...