The civil war in Yemen kept a rusting supertanker off the coast of the Middle Eastern country from delivering one million barrels of oil. Now, in an extraordinary move, wrote Agence France-Presse, the United Nations has purchased a new tanker that will pump out the...
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Honduras will seek to establish formal diplomatic relations with China, a move that would cut off Taiwan from one of its few remaining diplomatic allies, Bloomberg reported. Honduran President Xiomara Castro said the decision was part of an effort to diversify bilateral ties and a sign...
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A Polish court sentenced an activist to eight months of community service for helping a woman obtain abortion pills to terminate her pregnancy, in a case that has drawn fresh scrutiny on Poland’s near-total ban on the procedure, the BBC reported. Justyna Wydrzynska became the first...
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A Pakistani court ordered police to temporarily suspend an operation to arrest Imran Khan on Wednesday, following violent clashes this week between authorities and the former prime minister’s supporters, the Guardian reported. On Tuesday, Khan’s residence in Lahore became the scene of a major scuffle when...
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People with curly hair have a slight evolutionary advantage when it comes to staying cool, according to a new study on scalp hair. Scientists conducted a series of experiments using thermal manikins and wigs of human hair to understand the evolutionary function of head hair, Science...
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