Dec. 10 (UPI) — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was listed in stable condition while in intensive care on Tuesday after undergoing emergency brain surgery to address bleeding, physicians said. Lula, 79, was first taken to a hospital in Brasilia after complaining about a severe headache. An MRI scan identified the brain bleed…
Over 5,000 deaths have been recorded this year as violence spirals in the Caribbean country Close to 200 people were killed in the Haitian capital over the weekend after a gang leader ordered the butchering of elderly people he suspected of sickening his child, who ultimately died, through witchcraft. The episode takes the overall death…
Google has unveiled a new chip which it claims takes five minutes to solve a problem that would currently take the world’s fastest super computers ten septillion – or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years – to complete. The chip is the latest development in a field known as quantum computing – which is attempting to use the principles…
Sotheby’s is set to auction off the world’s oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments. The Tablet The 155-pound (52-kilogram) marble slab, engraved with the Ten Commandments in Paleo-Hebrew script, is set to be auctioned on December 18. Discovered in 1913 during railroad excavations along Israel’s southern coast, the tablet initially went unrecognized…
Ousted Syrian president Bashar Assad has fled to Russia after Islamist rebels rolled into the capital Damascus and ended his despotic family’s 50-year reign of terror. Assad, who inherited the office from his father in 2000, reportedly slipped out of Syria early Sunday morning as rebels closed in on his palace. He arrived in Moscow…
Greetings from Tyler, It turns out Nigel Farrage, mastermind of Brexit, is good buddies with Donald Trump. Problems that require money to fix are surmountable with Elon Musk on your side. Suddenly everyone is beating a path to Mar-a- Lago. Nobody wants to be on Trump’s bad side. Some are probably sorry they came. Can…
BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of people fled the central Syrian city of Homs, the country’s third largest, as insurgents seized two towns on the outskirts Friday, positioning themselves for an assault on a potentially major prize in their march against President Bashar Assad. The move, reported by pro-government media and an opposition war monitor, was…
Dec. 6 (UPI) — Romania’s Constitutional Court Friday canceled the presidential run-off election between far-right candidate Calin Georgescu and centrist Elena Lasconi. The court cited a Russian propaganda campaign as the reason. The court said in a statement that its decision two days before the run-off was to occur “annuls the entire electoral process regarding…
WARSAW, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Poland signed a $4 billion loan under the United States’ Foreign Military Financing program that will help finance the transformation of its armed forces, the Polish defence minister said on Thursday. “This is another proof of enormous trust and strong alliance between Poland and the United States of America,” Wladyslaw…
Syrian rebels say they have taken full control of a second major city, after the military withdrew its troops from Hama in another setback for President Bashar al-Assad. The leader of the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, declared “victory” in Hama and vowed there would be “no revenge”. Earlier, HTS…