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LONDON – A British-Australian academic serving a 10-year sentence in Iran for espionage has been transferred to a remote prison in southern Tehran that human rights activists say is riddled with cases of coronavirus, raising further concern. about his deteriorating health. The academic, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a Cambridge-educated professor of Islamic …

Xbox Live Gold subscribers and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members will receive four free games in August thanks to Xbox Games with Gold. Players can pick up the first of the month’s free games on August 1 with Portal Knights, a third person action RPG, and MX unleashed, a classic …

That was a patter. Seattle was off on everything and LAFC was on everything. It was not good enough, in all positions. The history of that game will be Seattle’s defensive mistakes, and there were definitely plenty, but the Sounders were second (or even third?) Everywhere tonight. It just isn’t …

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard fired a missile from a helicopter at a US aircraft carrier in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, state television reported Tuesday, an exercise aimed at threatening the United States amid tensions between Tehran and Washington. The exercises, called “Prophet Muhammad 14”, were held near the Strait …

Enlarged image showing revived microbes from sediments 101.5 million years old.Image: JAMSTEC Scientists have revived microbes found deep in the seafloor in 100 million-year-old sediments, dramatically expanding our vision of where life exists on Earth and for how long. An international team of scientists led by geomicrobiologist Yuki Morono of …