BANGKOK — A Thai court rejected the appeal of two Myanmar migrants sentenced to death for the murders of a pair of British backpackers, the defense team said Wednesday after learning of the verdict a week after it was rendered. The bodies of David Miller and Hannah Witheridge were found in 2014 on the shore
Geert Wilders' Eurosceptic, anti-immigrant Party for Freedom has slipped in the polls because the Dutch electorate is currently more concerned with domestic issues than the EU and migration, Professor Rinus Van Schendelen told Sputnik Deutschland.
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Chinese state media have reacted with anger and boycott threats after the board of an affiliate of South Korea's Lotte Group approved a land swap with the government that allows authorities to deploy a U.S. missile defense system.
The government decided last year to deploy the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, in response to the North Korean missile threat, on land that is part of a golf course owned by Lotte in the Seongju region, southeast of Seoul. Читать дальше...
Channeling his admired US President Donald Trump, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban reiterated his opposition to ethnic and religious diversity in an address to the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce, calling on the country's private sector to think beyond cheap migrant labor for growth solutions.
The United States strongly condemns deadly attacks in the Afghan city of Kabul on Wednesday, US Embassy in Afghanistan said in a statement.
The Season 24 cast of "Dancing with the Stars" was revealed Wednesday on ABC's "Good Morning America."
Ethan Happ is one of 10 semifinalists for the Naismith Trophy, given to the college player of the year.
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While the rest of Hollywood is sparking and squashing Twitter beefs, a small band of celebrities want no part of the social-media circus.
Some want nothing to do with technology at all.
Christopher Walken, for instance, told Newsweek last year that he's never had the temptation to do the "masochistic things" enabled by the computer, such as Googling himself.
Here's a group of Luddite celebs who are perfectly happy living in a simpler time. Читать дальше...
Vijf vrouwelijke NASA-wetenschappers worden vereeuwigd in een Lego-set. De poppetjes zijn een creatie van wetenschapsauteur Maia Weinstock die met ruim 10.000 stemmen hiermee een ideëenwedstrijd van de beroemde blokjesfabrikant won.
Investigators say government forces used chlorine bombs and rebels shelled civilians indiscriminately.
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"24 H in a D" becomes "24 hours in a day". Got it? Good. Be warned, they get harder...
Severe storms featuring tornadoes killed at least three people across the U.S. Midwest, local authorities said.
Listen to Roger Federer discuss his second-round loss to a Russian qualifier at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.
CAIRO — Amnesty International says the Egyptian government has failed to protect hundreds of Coptic Christians who fled their homes in northern Sinai after a series of attacks by Islamic State militants. The London-based rights group on Wednesday said the government’s response fits with a pattern of failing to protect the embattled minority, adding that
NEW YORK — Twitter is adding more tools to curb abuse on its service as part of its ongoing effort to protect users from hate and harassment. Among other things, the service will attempt to identify offenders on its own, even if no one has reported them first. It is the second time in three
When you’re deep in a video game, the last thing you want to do is leave home. If only you could take the game with you for your commute to work or your bus ride to school, or to liven up your lunch hour. Nintendo’s new Switch console tries to address that by letting you
Two mystery ticket holders will start training later this year for a trip around the moon in 2018, NBC News reports.
Jones said Trump's detractors should be worried by such moments, because if Trump manages to keep doing this he'll be there for eight years.
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President Donald Trump delivers his first address to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 28 from the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. Photo by Jim Lo Scalzo/AFP/Getty Images
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Today, Twitter will start relying on algorithms to identify and restrict accounts for engaging in "abusive behavior," which the company defines as either "repeatedly Tweeting without solicitation at non-followers" or violating the Twitter terms of service. The change goes beyond what some thought would be simple keyword policing (read: swear words) by also considering the relationships between users when determining abuse.
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A race is on among Silicon Valley startups to catch cancers before they turn deadly. Victory will come for the winners in a drop of blood — a sample serving as a long-sought “liquid biopsy” for cancer.
One contestant is Freenome of South San Francisco, California, which announced on Wednesday that it has raised $65 million to test their experimental liquid biopsy and move it closer to commercialization.
CEO Gabriel Otte says Freenome is most interested... Читать дальше...
Total market valuation of all BSE-listed companies today surged to all-time high of over Rs 118 lakh crore after a rally in the broader market.