ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey and Greece exchanged harsh words on Saturday about the conversion of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia church to a mosque, a day after Islamic prayers were held at the ancient site for the first time in nine decades. FILE PHOTO: Worshipers attend afternoon prayers and visit the Hagia …
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This stunning image captured last year by physicists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland is the first photo of quantum entanglement, a phenomenon so bizarre that physicist Albert Einstein described it as a “ creepy action at a distance. ” It may not sound like much, but just stop …
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Read More »Putin says Russian Navy will get hypersonic nuclear attack weapons
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that the Russian Navy would be armed with hypersonic nuclear attack weapons and submarine nuclear drones, which the defense ministry said were in their final phase of testing. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin inspects warships before the Navy Day Parade in Saint …
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