A dissident blogger was sentenced to 15 months in prison for writing critical posts about the Vietnamese government. Pham Viet Dao was found guilty of posting articles critical of senior government officials in a manner […]
PLATO, a space-based observatory designed to search for planets orbiting stars, is the European Space Agency’s newest mission. “Its discoveries will help to place our own Solar System’s architecture in the context of other planetary […]
A car bomb killed seven people in a terrorist attack near the gated entrance to a fortified international airport in the Somali capital of Mogadishu Feb. 13. Witnesses told the BBC that the seven victims […]
An abandoned ship reported to be carrying cannibal rats off the Newfoundland coast has likely sunk in the North Atlantic according to a statement by the Irish coastguard. A representative from Ireland’s Coast Guard (IRGC) […]
The United States has asked the government of South Sudan to release the final four detainees being held over allegations of an attempted coup in December. The release of the final detainees would help alleviate […]
The Syrian government has refused to consider a transitional government to end the civil war in that country. The opposition has demanded a government change and the Geneva I conference has also recommended it. In […]
Russian security forces went on high alert after six bodies and several explosive devices were discovered on the outskirts of Pyatigorsk near the Caucasus mountains 500 kilometres from Sochi. The gunshot riddled bodies were […]
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