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Plan to retrieve Titanic radio spurs debate on human remains
But the company’s plan to retrieve the ship’s iconic radio equipment has sparked a debate: Could the world’s most famous shipwreck still hold remains of passengers and crew who died a century ago?
Lawyers for the U.S. government have raised that question in an ongoing court battle to block the planned expedition. They cite archaeologists who say remains could still be there. An
Armenia, Azerbaijan report violations of new cease-fire
Despite a second attempt at a cease-fire, Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations Sunday of violating the new truce in their destructive conflict over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
UN chief urges int'l community to stand by poor
Noting that the pandemic could push up to 115 million people into poverty this year, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday urged the international community to stand in solidarity with all the people living in poverty, during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.
Preliminary results show Chinese COVID-19 vaccine candidate safe: The Lancet
A Chinese COVID-19 vaccine candidate based on the inactivated whole SARS-CoV-2 virus is safe and elicits an antibody response, according to the findings from a small early-phase randomised clinical trial published Thursday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal.
New Zealand's Ardern headed for landslide win and 2nd term
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was headed for a landslide win and a second term in office Saturday in New Zealand’s general election.
9 die in India road crash
As many as nine people were killed and some 30 others injured in a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a sports utility vehicle in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh early Saturday morning, police said.
WHO study finds remdesivir didn’t help COVID-19 patients
A large study led by the World Health Organization suggests that the antiviral drug remdesivir did not help hospitalized COVID-19 patients, in contrast to an earlier study that made the medicine a standard of care in the United States and many other countries.
‘Dead’ man wakes up after 20 hrs in freezer
Balasubramanian Kumar was critically ill and bed-ridden in his village of Kandhampatti in Tamil Nadu state when his family noticed he had stopped moving on Monday afternoon, reports Independent.
Then, his family members thought he died after he had stopped moving. They called for a freezer box to b
Out and about again: Queen Elizabeth in visit with William
Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday carried out her first public engagement outside of a royal residence since early March when the coronavirus pandemic started to impact upon on all aspects of day-to-day life in the U.K.
Covid-19 spike in Europe a great concern, says WHO regional chief
Covid-19 is now the fifth leading cause of death in Europe, said Dr. Hans Henri P. Kluge, regional head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO).