Convicted 1978 murderer Kevin Strickland was acquitted by a Missouri court on Tuesday and released from prison after nearly 43 years. Despite the conviction being overturned, the man will not receive any compensation from the state for his time in prison.more
Russia maintains around 90 000 troops on the border with Ukraine, and has recently stepped up cooperation with Belarus and increased its military presence there. At the same time, according to experts, serious regular forces are ready to act at any time. 130 tactical battalion groups (each consisting of around 800 soldiers) are on constant alert.more
Obecna sytuacja epidemiczna wskazuje na to, że po pół roku od szczepienia odporność immunologiczna może słabnąć; obecnie do szpitali we Włoszech zaczynają też trafiać osoby zaszczepione - zauważył doktor Maciej Tarkowski, immunolog z laboratorium wydziału chorób zakaźnych na uniwersytecie w Mediolanie. Jak podkreślił, trzecia dawka szczepionki jest w wielu przypadkach konieczna.more
Reporting the events on the Belarusian-Polish border on November 15 and 16, BBC journalist Steve Rosenberg said that Belarusian soldiers did not respond to the attempted assault on the border, and the whole situation looked "planned and organized".more
The US Department of Defense is setting up a research group to investigate the potential presence of UFOs in restricted airspace used by the military. The decision is the result of a report published in June on 144 sightings of mysterious flying objects.more
The heads of large coronavirus hospitals in Russia in an open letter to vaccine opponents suggested that they would show them wards for patients with Covid-19, intensive care units and mortuary. "Maybe after that you will change your position" - the doctors inform.more
In the Netherlands, a pilot project to sell take-away soft drugs in premises has started. The intention of the authorities is to counteract the inconvenience for the residents of the traditional "coffeeshops".more
Swedish police confirmed that the body found in the forest in Boekeberg, 20 km from Malmoe, belongs to a Polish woman, 32-year-old Beata R., who disappeared at the end of September. The local media reported earlier about the woman's death.more
Rome is the Italian city where you can feel the most climate change. The capital area is haunted by whirlwinds, floods and droughts, underlined in the report of the League for Environmental Protection (Legambiente). A record of extreme weather events has been broken in the last decade.more
By spring, there may be 700,000 jobs in 53 European and Central Asian countries. deaths due to Covid-19, and the global balance of deaths from the pandemic may increase by 2.2 million - warns the European branch of WHO.more
Today at 6:21 AM (GMT), the DART spacecraft took off into space from California with the first-ever mission to attempt to alter the course of an asteroid as part of NASA's planetary defense program.more
In the French overseas department of Martinique, firearms were fired on by the security services and firefighters, the public security services said. The incident took place in connection with protests against restrictions related to Covid-19. No casualties have been reported, added.more
New research from Japan's National Institute of Genetics suggests the Delta variant of the coronavirus has led itself to "natural extinction" in Japan. This happened after a few mutations that made him unable to make a copy of his own.more
South Korea is the most materialistic of the 17 developed societies in the Pew Research Center's survey, in which researchers asked 18,500 people, which gives meaning to their lives, reported the daily Dzoson Ilbo.more
