(Reuters) – At least seven ships caught fire in Iran’s Bushehr port, the Tasnim news agency reported on Wednesday, in what appears to be the latest in a series of fires and explosions across the country, some of which have affected sensitive sites. Smoke rises from burning ships in the …
Read More »Russian scientists praise results of COVID-19 vaccine trial
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian scientists praised the results of their first clinical trial of a possible coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday, saying it had been shown to be safe and that the volunteers had developed an immune response. FILE PHOTO: A computer image created by Nexu Science Communication in conjunction with …
Read More »George Floyd death body camera footage released to CNN
Floyd sobbed when officers initially began pulling him out of the vehicle he was in, and at one point Officer Derek Chauvin appears to be leaning over the pressure applied to Floyd’s neck. Floyd’s last words, not seen in a previously published transcript, were: “I can’t breathe.” The two videos …
Read More »A 33-year-old technology CEO was found dismembered in a New York apartment, a law source says.
The New York Police Department confirmed that a man had been found dead Tuesday in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The source identified the man as tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh, a venture capitalist and CEO of Gokada, the Nigerian motorcycle company. Saleh was last seen on …
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 …
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