A satellite image of the brochure shows a close-up view of the Ethiopian Renaissance Great Dam (GERD) and the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia, June 26, 2020. Satellite Image © 2020 Maxar Technologies via REUTERS ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia began filling the Great Renaissance dam, a giant hydroelectric project …
Read More »Statue of UK slave trader Edward Colston replaced by one of Black Lives Matter protesters
London – The statue of a slave trader who was knocked down and thrown into a river Last month in Bristol, England, it was replaced overnight with a sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester with a raised fist. The new Jen Reid statue, which helped bring down the 17th-century …
Read More »Deepfake used to attack an activist couple shows a new disinformation frontier
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Oliver Taylor, a student at the University of Birmingham in England, is in his twenties with brown eyes, a light beard and a slightly stiff smile. A combined photograph showing an image purporting to be of British student and freelance writer Oliver Taylor (L) and a heat …
Read More »Falling fertility rates to create major shifts in economic power
People in colorful dresses sell and buy products at a street market in Osogbo, Nigeria at dusk. Jorge Fernández | LightRocket via Getty Images Decreasing fertility rates will likely mean that almost all countries have reduced populations by the end of the century, according to a new study, triggering “major …
Read More »As the United States fights 60,000 new cases a day, England and France, facing just 500, impose new mask restrictions nationwide
TOPLINE Facing around 500 new infections each day, England and France announced new nationwide mask mandates on Tuesday to curb minor resurgences of the virus, highlighting a marked difference in approach from the significantly hardest hit United States, whose leaders have reprimanded strongly the need for a national requirement despite …
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