Ricky Lam has always stayed away from guns.. That, coupled with a rise in racist attacks over recent years which coincided with the spread of the coronavirus, means Lam is now reconsidering his attitude to guns.
Twelve years after a nuclear catastrophe triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami, workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in northeast Japan are preparing to release treated wastewater into the sea.. "I don't think the fisheries of Fukushima will truly recover until the day the nuclear plant shuts down," Ishibashi said. oh/sah/kaf/aha
Forced to flee by the Taliban, Fatima Haidari now offers virtual tours of Afghanistan from her new home in Italy -- with the proceeds funding secret English classes for women there.. A third of the money goes towards secret English classes for young women back in Afghanistan.
Archaeologists in southern Iraq have uncovered the remains of a tavern dating back nearly 5,000 years they hope will illuminate the lives of ordinary people in the world's first cities.. "We hope to be able to characterise the neighbourhoods and the kinds of occupation... of the people that lived in this big city who were not the elite," she added.
Many major global firms and financial institutions that directly or indirectly contribute to deforestation do not have any policies in place to protect forests, increasing the risk for catastrophic nature loss, a report said Wednesday.. "While there have been pockets of progress, the majority of companies and financial institutions are living on borrowed time, putting climate and nature goals at risk," Global Canopy director Niki Mardas said.
The headscarf-covered woman could not contain her rage.. "They gave us hope by telling us that the baby and the mother were alive," said the woman, refusing to give her name for fear of retribution.
In a town just west of besieged Bakhmut, heavy snow fails to dampen the earsplitting blasts of artillery that now punctuate daily life.. "Bakhmut will not be taken tomorrow, because there is heavy resistance," he said in a statement in Moscow.
French investigators have closed an investigation into possible rape and sexual assault by European model agency boss Gerald Marie who was accused of a string of offences, legal sources said Tuesday. . Brinkworth claims that in 1998, while posing as a model during an undercover investigation for a documentary, Marie sexually assaulted her in a Milan nightclub.
Ukraine's Western backers pledged at a meeting Tuesday to keep the huge amounts of ammunition and arms Kyiv needs flowing to the frontline, as Russia battled for the devastated city of Bakhmut. . Ukraine's Western supporters -- spearheaded by the United States -- have already supplied billions of dollars of arms to help Kyiv hold Moscow back.
A major French mental health study has found a huge rise in the number of young people reporting depression, with the most likely cause seen as Covid-19 and restrictions to control the disease. . "The stress caused by the Covid-19 disease and the restrictions imposed to control it appear to be one of the main hypotheses to explain this rise," Public Health France said on its website.
