Fistfights broke out among lawmakers in the Jordanian parliament on Tuesday, following a heated debate on several controversial constitutional reforms, including a gender equality amendment. The session had to be adjourned. Live footage of the minutes-long brawl aired on state media showed irate MPs shoving, grabbing, and throwing punches as …
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Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has continued his crackdown against dissent in the media by imposing a new set of restrictive measures against three companies that own opposition-aligned TV channels, it emerged on Tuesday. The sanctions take aim at channels UkrLive and First Independent, both of which are believed by the …
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A Moscow court has ruled that a prominent organization campaigning on human rights issues should be dissolved after prosecutors insisted that it was breaching the country’s laws regulating ‘foreign agents.’ In a ruling on Wednesday, the Moscow City Court said that the Memorial Human Rights Center would be dissolved. Handing …
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Authorities in China’s Guangxi region have publicly shamed four people accused of violating rules on Covid-19 by aiding migrants crossing the closed border from Vietnam, according to state news. State-run news agencies reported on Wednesday that four alleged violators of Covid-19 rules were publicly shamed on Tuesday. The four suspects, …
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The Pentagon has ordered the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman, and other warships, to remain in the Mediterranean region rather than sail as previously planned towards the Middle East, Western news agencies claimed on Tuesday. The reports cited an unnamed “defense official” who said the move was due to …
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A nationwide 24/7 lockdown for cats is just around the corner in Australia, officials believe, as figures reveal that billions of unique native animals fall prey to feline hunters annually. “The latest statistics show that every year they [pet cats] predate more than 180 native animals; that’s just one pet …
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A new study of the nearest actively feeding supermassive black hole has revealed that the space phenomenon emits radio bubbles which extend over vast tracts of space when it feeds on infalling gas. In a piece published in Nature Astronomy on December 22, Dr. Benjamin McKinley from the Curtin University …
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Tankers loaded with US liquefied natural gas (LNG) that was reportedly destined for China have been diverted to head towards Britain instead, as Europe’s energy crisis worsens by the day. The cargo is making its way through the UK’s inshore waterways in a move that is “critical to tempering even …
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The investigation into the failure of the October test launch of South Korea’s Nuri rocket zeroed in on an anchoring device on its third stage as the culprit. It may lead to delays of the next scheduled launch. The rocket, also known as KSLV-II, was the first space launch vehicle …
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The number of people being admitted to hospitals in the UK capital more than tripled in December as the Omicron strain of coronavirus took hold and spread like wildfire across Britain. Data published on Tuesday evening on the UK government’s Covid-19 dashboard, shows that London’s hospitals have been put under …
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