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Dec 2, 2020 04:29
With the Red Cross warning governments to clamp down on a “second pandemic” of misinformation, the organization’s health and care chief told RT that he’s not demanding censorship, but pushing for “positive change.”
- US State Dept says China hit ‘new low’ with doctored image of Australian soldier
The United States has called China’s use of a digitally manipulated image of an Australian soldier a “new low,” after Beijing rebuffed Canberra’s calls for an apology.Dec 2, 2020 10:06 - Singapore approves sale of lab-grown meat in ‘world first’, but some people aren’t convincedThe Singapore Food Agency is the first regulatory body to approve the sale of cell-cultured chicken grown in a lab without the slaughter of any poultry. However, some people are skeptical of the product’s green credentials.Dec 2, 2020 10:20
- Netanyahu’s rival says Israeli PM ‘only working to save himself from trial’ as country might hold FOURTH election in 2 yearsIsraeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said his party will back a bill to dissolve the Knesset and send the country into its fourth election in just two years, as a shaky coalition with PM Benjamin Netanyahu continues to unravel.Dec 2, 2020 00:34
- ‘Seems to be fake news’: Iran’s foreign ministry denies that senior IRGC commander was killed in drone strike on Iraq-Syria borderIran’s foreign ministry has apparently denied reports that a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander and three of his escorts were killed in a drone strike on their car near Iraq’s border with Syria.Dec 1, 2020 21:27
- Criminal organizations set to target Covid-19 vaccines, Interpol warnsInterpol has warned that criminals are planning to “infiltrate or disrupt supply chains” and target members of the public with fake vaccine scams as the world looks to immunize against Covid.Dec 2, 2020 11:38
- Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong sentenced to 13 months in prison after pleading guilty to organizing unauthorized assemblyActivist Joshua Wong was jailed for 13-and-a-half months on Wednesday by a Hong Kong court for his role in last year’s riots in the city.Dec 2, 2020 10:45
- Birth control for men? Scientists discover how to spot ‘winning’ sperm in breakthrough for non-hormonal male contraceptivesResearchers have discovered how to spot a winner among the millions of sperm racing to fertilize an egg – and it’s all down to minute characteristics that literally make the difference between life and death.Dec 2, 2020 10:29
- Singapore approves sale of lab-grown meat in ‘world first’, but some people aren’t convincedThe Singapore Food Agency is the first regulatory body to approve the sale of cell-cultured chicken grown in a lab without the slaughter of any poultry. However, some people are skeptical of the product’s green credentials.Dec 2, 2020 10:20
- US State Dept says China hit ‘new low’ with doctored image of Australian soldierThe United States has called China’s use of a digitally manipulated image of an Australian soldier a “new low,” after Beijing rebuffed Canberra’s calls for an apology.Dec 2, 2020 10:06
- It’s not censorship, it’s ‘positive change’: Red Cross chief says social media should promote ‘the right information’ on vaccinesWith the Red Cross warning governments to clamp down on a “second pandemic” of misinformation, the organization’s health and care chief told RT that he’s not demanding censorship, but pushing for “positive change.”Dec 2, 2020 04:29
- Netanyahu’s rival says Israeli PM ‘only working to save himself from trial’ as country might hold FOURTH election in 2 yearsIsraeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said his party will back a bill to dissolve the Knesset and send the country into its fourth election in just two years, as a shaky coalition with PM Benjamin Netanyahu continues to unravel.Dec 2, 2020 00:34
- ‘Seems to be fake news’: Iran’s foreign ministry denies that senior IRGC commander was killed in drone strike on Iraq-Syria borderIran’s foreign ministry has apparently denied reports that a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander and three of his escorts were killed in a drone strike on their car near Iraq’s border with Syria.Dec 1, 2020 21:27
- Scientists identify gene responsible for aging in potential leap forward for regenerative medicineResearchers have identified the process that causes the skin and other human organs to age, in what could prove a major breakthrough for the field of regenerative medicine.Dec 1, 2020 20:26
- Trier car-ramming apparently was ‘on purpose,’ officials say, as 5, including child, confirmed deadPolice have confirmed five deaths in Trier, Germany after a car plowed into a pedestrian area. While the driver’s actions appear to have been intentional, the public prosecutor says there are no indications of an Islamist motive.Dec 1, 2020 18:16
- South Korea passes ‘BTS law,’ allowing K-pop megastars to postpone military serviceSouth Korea’s National Assembly has passed a bill, dubbed the ‘BTS law’ in honor of the country’s biggest music act, which will allow the nation’s top stars to postpone their mandatory military service to the age of 30.Dec 1, 2020 18:02
- Genetic manipulation: HIV-like virus edited out of primate GENOME in major advance towards winning war on AIDSResearchers have made a major breakthrough in treating and possibly eventually curing HIV, by deploying Nobel-prize-winning CRISPR gene editing techniques to purge the virus from the genomes of non-human primates.Dec 1, 2020 17:46
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