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France is banning Osama bin Laden’s son Omar from returning to the country “for any reason”, the French interior minister said on Tuesday. Omar lived in France with his British wife for several years, working as an artist in Normandy. He was ordered to leave the country last year and banned from returning for two…
Ethiopia’s coffee and cut flower industries face significant challenges due to new EU regulations. From January 2025, producers must comply with the bloc’s Due Diligence Act, which imposes strict environmental standards on exports to Europe. Millions of small coffee farmers will have to prove their land is free from deforestation, while flower farmers will have…
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded on Tuesday to John Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto for their “fundamental discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” Source link
Interpol has launched a new European campaign to try to solve a series of “cold cases” by asking the public to help them locate the remains of 46 women found murdered or who appear to have died under suspicious circumstances. “Whether it’s a memory, a tip or a shared story, the smallest detail could help…
France’s new government, led by conservative Prime Minister Michel Barnier, will have to rely on far-right support as it faces a no-confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday. The movement, named by the leftist New People’s Front alliance, won the most votes in June-July parliamentary elections but fell short of an outright majority, and was subsequently…
The queue outside Istanbul’s Panagia Vefa Church stretched over 200 metres, made up of Christians and Muslims chatting animatedly as they waited to make a wish inside this Greek Orthodox shrine. Source link
In Rwanda, the Marburg virus has already killed 12 people in two weeks. The country has begun distributing 700 doses of a vaccine that is still in the testing phase. This is the first time it has been developed during an outbreak in Africa. Meanwhile, more than 17 million people in Mozambique will go to…
The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft set off on Monday for its two-year journey to a small asteroid already seeded by NASA to test whether potentially planet-threatening asteroids can be knocked off course by a timely launch. Source link
A Russian court has sentenced 72-year-old American citizen Steven Hubbard to nearly seven years in prison on charges of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine, following a largely closed-door trial. This conviction comes amid a series of recent arrests of Westerners in Russia, including another American who was sentenced to a longer prison term for…
The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to the Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the pioneering discovery of microRNA, which plays a critical role in the regulation of gene activity. Their research, conducted at prestigious institutions such as Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital, has provided fundamental insights into how organisms develop and…
