(CNN) – The planned 37th annual Harbin Snow and Ice Festival continues as planned, although changes have been made due to a new outbreak of the nearby coronavirus. The Winter Festival, a huge event in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin in Heilongjiang Province, has been attracting tourists from China …
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Parlor suspends social network application for inciting violence | US Capitol breach
Google has suspended the Parlor social networking app from its Play Store until popular platform “Strong” content moderation is added with many supporters of Donald Trump. Just as Twitter permanently suspended the US President’s account for the risk of escalating the violence, “the search engine said it was blocking the …
Read More »The “big event” was declared in London due to the pressure on the hospitals of Covid-19
A man promoting the UK’s National Health Service message, “Stay Home, Save Lives” at a bus shelter in London on January 8. Tolga Akman / AFP / Getty Images UK His office wrote in a letter that London Mayor Sadiq Khan had declared a “major event” due to the rapid …
Read More »DC police make more arrests at the height of Black Lives Matter protests during Capitol clashes
When a mob of President Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, they were confronted with far fewer police presence – and by the end of the day, far fewer of the rioters had ended in custody. Despite the sharp disparity in arrests, more DC officers were injured during …
Read More »The Hubble Telescope displays rare, spectacular scenes colliding with six different galaxies
The Hubble Space Telescope team celebrated the beginning of 2021 with images of six different galaxy mergers. Left to right top: NGC 3256, NGC 1614, NGC 4194. Bottom: NGC 3690, NGC 6052, NGC 34. NASA and ESA ‘Gather rounds and tell me about birds and bees – and galaxies. Sometimes, …
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