Iran's state television on Saturday identified a man it said was behind a recent explosion and power outage at its main Natanz nuclear plant. "Reza Karimi, the perpetrator of this sabotage... has been identified" by Iran's intelligence ministry, state TV said ... The card listed his age as 43 ... Lahav Harkov contributed to this report. .
Nasa hopes to score a 21st-centuryWright Brothers moment and make history on Monday as it attempts to send a miniature helicopter buzzing over the surface of Mars in what would be the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. Landmark achievements in science and technology can seem humble by conventional measurements ... .
SEOUL, South Korea — The United States and China, the world's two biggest carbon polluters, agreed to cooperate to curb climate change with urgency, just days before PresidentJoe Biden hosts a virtual summit of world leaders to discuss the issue. . The agreement was reached by U.S ... We all need to see what happens." ...The U.S ... .
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage for a second year, another pandemic has managed to persist for over three decades and has continued to claim thousands of lives a year—the Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ... A Deadly Virus ... So far, around 33 million people in total have succumbed to the deadly infection ... Eventually, the host is killed ... .
The gunman, identified as 19-year-old BrandonScottHole, a former employee ... He was last employed by FedEx in 2020 ... "This is very heart-breaking. The Sikh community is devastated by this tragic incident," community leader Gurinder Singh Khalsa told PTI over the phone after meeting family members of the employees of the FedEx facility ... .
Queen Elizabeth will bid a final farewell to Prince Philip, her husband of more than seven decades, at a ceremonial funeral on Saturday, with the nation set to hold a minute's silence to mark the passing of a pivotal figure in the British monarchy...Prince Charles, heir to the throne, and Philip's other three children will walk behind in procession ... .
RAMALLAH, April 17 -- The Israeli police on Saturday arrested three Palestinian electoral candidates attempting to hold a news briefing in East Jerusalem, Palestinian sources said ... "The PLO and the Palestinian leadership will never accept that the elections are only held in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip without East Jerusalem," he said ... 31 ... .
Myanmar's military announced it had pardoned and released more than 23,000 prisoners to mark the new year holiday. However, it is not clear whether they included pro-democracy activists who were detained in protests after the military coup in February ... He also reduced sentences for others ... .
By ASSOCIATED PRESS 04/17/2021 08.06 AM EDT. INDIANAPOLIS — The former employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis was interviewed by FBI agents last year, after his mother called police to say that her son might commit “suicide by cop,” the bureau said Friday ... He said he did not know if Hole owned the gun legally ... .
Russia's FSB security service briefly detained a Ukrainian diplomat in St Petersburg, Ukraine's foreign ministry said on Saturday, in the latest flare-up of tensions between the neighboring countries ...Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday pressed for peace negotiations ... .
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