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As stated by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on January 15, legislative elections will be held on May 22 this year, with the presidential vote following on July 31. The announcement has since caused many to fear the potential backlash, due to both party divides and foreign interference. The …

The BBC board chair is appointed by the Queen on the advice of the government and comes with a £160,000 ($221,000) annual salary for three to four days work per week. Richard Sharp, who was offered the role last month, will serve a four-year term, during which he will be …

Svante Paabo and Hugo Zeberg of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have been looking to the genes inherited from our Neanderthal ancestors – and the pair’s studies suggest that our modern-day responses to Covid-19 are part of a genetic lottery played out over 40,000 years. …

There comes a point when you can no longer ignore the truth. We’ve reached that juncture with Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. He’s the ruler of Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates, and is credited with transforming a desert town into a modern metropolis. Tourists and social media …

The wounded have been rushed to hospital. One of the three sustained moderate injuries in the incident, according to local reports, while the other two escaped with light injuries. Around 100 people were evacuated from the administrative building, located in a small town near Stuttgart. “It was probably a package or a …

Over 70 years ago, the United States forged the beginning of a new transatlantic order through the initiation of first, the Marshall Plan to rebuild the war-torn economies of Europe, and then secondly, the NATO alliance, framed as a protection from the perceived threat of the Soviet Union. Depicting themselves …

Speaking to the UK Commons Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday, Professor Sir John Bell, Oxford’s regius professor of medicine, said that the Covid-19 mutations observed so far are a result of the virus adapting to be more effective in its new hosts, humans.  “Most of the variants we have …

“No one owes you are your family anything; nor is it the local government’s responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink of swim it’s your choice!” Boyd said in the now deleted post, which was riddled with grammatical errors.  Unusually cold weather conditions in the state of …

Some people can talk. I mean, they can really, really talk. For hours and hours. About absolutely nothing. My mother, for example, can talk pretty much anyone under the table. She is the chit-chat champion of the known universe. You’d realise she was in a totally different chit-chat stratosphere, for …

Frigid temperatures have shut down some of Texas’ wind turbines and solar panels, as well as natural gas infrastructure in the Lone Star state. As a result, millions of residents have been left in freezing conditions without power, resulting in numerous deaths.  Speaking with Fox News host Sean Hannity on …