Religious and political leaders are denouncing Turkey’s decision to turn Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia, known for its Christian origin and as the most popular tourist site in the secular Muslim nation, into a mosque. Built as a Greek Orthodox church almost 1,500 years ago and converted into a mosque after the …
Read More »‘Big concern’ as new Ebola outbreak grows in western DR Congo DR Congo News
Ebola is spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with almost 50 known cases in a large region bordering the Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Mike Ryan, the WHO’s top emergency expert, said Monday that 48 cases had …
Read More »Peacock’s not-so-secret ingredient in broadcast wars is its free tier
Peacock is the new broadcast service from NBCUniversal and the last major participant in the colloquial broadcast war. But Gidon Katz, the company’s direct chairman of the consumer, believes that Peacock can win by leaning on something that most of its biggest competitors do not: offer premium entertainment, primarily for …
Read More »Timbuktu jihadist police chief before the ICC for war crimes
Image copyright ICC Screenshot The former police chief was handed over to the ICC by the Malian authorities in 2018 The former chief of the Islamic police in Timbuktu was part of a “reign of terror” in Mali city in 2012, prosecutors in The Hague say. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul …
Read More »Ohio man dies of COVID-19 after sharing anti-mask posts on social media, hitting virus ‘hype’
New study finds which masks offer the most protection against COVID-19 The group of researchers used a laser to detect drops and map their path. According to reports, an Ohio man died of COVID-19 after actively expressing on his social media accounts that he would not buy a mask and …
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