Indonesian officials are considering granting early release to Hisyam bin Alizein, also known as Umar Patek, the leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, an al-Qaida-linked terrorist group that killed 202 people in a bombing at a tourist spot in Bali in 2002. The officials felt that the murderer...
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World leaders gave their final farewells to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union whose reformist national and international policies helped end the Cold War but also resulted in the collapse of the USSR, CBS News reported Wednesday. Russian media said the former leader...
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Greenland’s widespread ice loss will add 10 inches to global sea levels, according to a new study, a rise that can’t be stopped even if fossil-fuel burning came to an immediate end, CNN reported. Researchers from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland observed the changes...
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A Caribbean regional court struck down a colonial-era law that prohibited gay sex in St. Kitts and Nevis, the latest ruling against such legislation that continues to exist in the region, the Associated Press reported. The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court said the 1873 law was unconstitutional,...
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The European Union has struck a political agreement to suspend a visa facilitation arrangement with Russia, making it more difficult and expensive for Russian tourists to obtain visas, but the action falls far short of the blanket ban demanded by some politicians, the Washington...
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Chewing food played an important role in human evolution, according to a new study. Scientists recently tested how much energy humans spend masticating on food compared with our closest primate species, the New York Times reported. Humans spend more than half an hour chewing every day, but...
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