Can Plastic-Eating Worms be the solution to the plastic pollution crisis?
Are these squirmy worms the solution to the pollution caused by plastics? That is the hope held by researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. They already know that garbage is broken down at the molecular level by the organisms' gut biomes and that they can be modified to break down plastic even more efficiently.
NAACP president says US must 'bring parties to the table' for Gaza peace negotiations.
Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, one of the major Black civil rights organizations in the United States, stated that his organization had a "responsibility to speak out in the face of injustice" as it urged the US president to ban arms shipments to Israel.
CAA implemented: SC requests an answer from the Center after denying a stay on CAA implementation
Days after India enacted the Citizenship Amendment Act. The Supreme Court was inundated with petitions for the act's retraction. On March 19, the Supreme Court heard arguments against the CAA in more than 200 petitions.
UK PM Rishi Sunak unveils biggest military spending increase in a generation
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hopes to increase the country's defense spending to £75 billion annually, or 2.5 percent of GDP, by the end of the decade. Stay tuned for additional information!
Iran-Israel war: Russia is expected to supply Iran the SU-35 flanker fighter aircraft
According to sources, Iran has accelerated the purchase of SU-35 fighter jets from Russia to support its faltering air fleet, even as tensions with Israel continue. Keep an eye out for additional information!
Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty ascend the rich list as fortunes increase by £120 million.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife, Akshata Murty, have risen to the top of the 'Sunday Times Rich List,' courtesy of Murty's profitable Infosys shareholdings.
Russia: Thousands of people are forced to flee a region affected by flooding due to dam bursts
According to a Russian news source that cited the plant's press department, the Orsk oil refinery in Russia stopped operating on Sunday after the city's dam broke on Friday night, flooding the nearby Orenburg area. See to learn more.
Centrist parties continue to hold the majority of seats in the European parliament despite gains made by the far right throughout the continent. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, leads the European People's Party, which remains the dominant party. However, Ursula von der Leyen faces a difficult task.
"Systematic torture": In an Israeli jail, being a Palestinian
Israel increased the number of arrests it made in the occupied West Bank and the abuse of its overcrowded jail system. Former Palestinian inmates describe how Israeli jail guards routinely mistreated them, forcing them to kneel, depriving them of necessities, and torturing them. Concerning trends are shown in the growing number of Palestinian inmates, including women and children. The Palestine Prisoners' Society draws attention to the extent of mistreatment and dehumanization committed by Israeli security personnel, who even brag about their acts in video footage that Israeli TV's Channel 13 broadcasts, exposing appalling circumstances within the jails. Families of inmates suffer because of this; some of them never make it out alive. The anguish that the families of deceased Palestinians go through is made worse by Israeli authorities' refusal to release their bodies.
Bosnian Ramadan: Gaza sympathizes with the survivors of the Balkan Wars
During Ramadan, Bosnian Muslims have been attentively monitoring the situation in Gaza. Many of them have memories of the 1990s Bosnian War, when they, too, had restricted access to staple commodities.
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