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Image copyright Reuters Screenshot Hashim Thaci, who has been Kosovo’s president since 2016, says he will head to the country on Sunday. Kosovo President Hashim Thaci rejected a war crime allegation he faces, calling it an attempt to rewrite the history of his country. In his first comments since prosecutors’ …

Citing the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, a federal judge in Los Angeles on Friday ordered the imminent release of migrant children detained at the country’s three family detention centers. The order to release the children before July 17 came after plaintiffs in a long-standing case reported that some of …

Miami-Dade County beaches will close the weekend of July 4 over concerns about social alienation and the coronavirus. County Mayor Carlos Giménez will sign an emergency order to close the beaches beginning Friday, July 3 and through Tuesday, July 7, his office announced Friday. “As we continue to see more …

Left: facial reconstruction of a Mesolithic man from Sweden. Right: his skull, from which the reconstruction was based. Image: Oscar Nilsson / S. Gummesson et al., 2018 In 2011, Swedish archaeologists found human skulls that had been mounted on stakes at an 8,000-year-old burial site, representing behavior rarely seen among …

The state of the global and national Covid-19 pandemic is “bleaker than I expected,” said Bill Gates at CNN’s “Coronavirus Town Hall” on Thursday. “Because our behavior and contact tracking does not work well [in the U.S.], we continue having a great diffusion of cases. And it’s embarrassing, “Gates said. …