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China has refused to apologise for a controversial image depicting an Australia soldier cutting the throat of an Afghan child as New Zealand became the latest country to voice its criticism of the doctored picture, which was posted to social media by a foreign ministry spokesman.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden said her government had conveyed its concern about the post to Beijing.
Deforestation in Brazilβs Amazon rainforest surged to a 12-year high in 2020, official government data showed on Monday, with destruction soaring since President Jair Bolsonaro took office and weakened environmental enforcement.
In 2020, destruction of the worldβs largest rainforest rose 9.5 percent from a year earlier to 11,088sq km (2.7 million acres), according to data from Brazilβs national space research agency Inpe, seven times the size of London.
Prosecutors investigating the death ofΒ Diego MaradonaΒ say the lack of adequate medical supervision provided following surgery for aΒ subdural hematomaΒ was “absolutely negligent,” a judicial investigator involved in the case told the country’s official news Agency Telam on Monday.
As the US prepares for the first round of vaccinations to tackle Covid-19, infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci called on the public to “be part of the solution” and get vaccinated once it is available. “Say, ‘I’m not going to be one of the people that’s going to be a steppingstone for the virus to go to somebody else. I’m going to be a dead end to the virus,'” Fauci told Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Monday.
IranΒ has vowed to retaliate for the assassination last week of one of its top nuclear scientists, but intelligence sources are questioning the notion that the incident will dramatically undermine presumptive President-electΒ Joseph R. Bidenβs plans for a major detente withΒ TehranΒ next year.
A slow-moving object of unknown origin just completed an extremely close flyby of our planet, before heading back out into the solar system. And the mysterious space material is expected to return in March.
The strange βminimoonβ β which is officially dubbed 2020 SO β has been the subject of speculation ever since it was discovered by the Pan-STARRS survey on September 17. It has been classed as an asteroid but scientists still don’t have a complete understanding of what the object is. Some have speculated that it is part of an old rocket.
