A team of Swedish engineers have developed the first crash test dummy designed on the body of the average woman. Since the 1970s, crash test dummies – mechanical surrogates of…
Continue ReadingA group of young Ukrainian ‘geeks’ make drones in the basement of a house near the Donbas frontline. A short distance from their base and less than two kilometres from…
Continue ReadingRussian men are fleeing into neighbouring Georgia to avoid being called-up to fight in a war they do not agree with following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order to mobilise hundreds…
Continue ReadingRussians are continuing to flee the country following the Kremlin’s drive to mobilise army reservists to fight in Ukraine, as opposition to the move continues to grow. President Putin announced…
Continue ReadingWith flowers, prayers and a 19-gun salute, Japan honoured slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on September 27 at the first state funeral for a former premier in 55 years – a ceremony…
Continue ReadingIran is cracking down on the biggest demonstrations since 2019, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16 after she was detained by morality police…
Continue ReadingRussia prepares to annex large swathes of Ukrainian territory after referendums in Russian-controlled regions in Ukraine which Ukraine and the West have described as an illegal sham. #Ukraine #Russia #referendum…
Continue ReadingA state funeral has been held in Japan for the country’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe – who was assassinated in July. The killing of the 67-year-old shocked a country…
Continue ReadingRussia launched referendums on Friday aimed at annexing four occupied regions of Ukraine, raising the stakes in the seven-month-old war with what Kyiv called an illegal sham that saw residents…
Continue ReadingNear final results in Sweden’s election on September 11 show that a bloc of right-wing parties was expected to defeat a left-wing bloc headed by Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson. The…
Continue ReadingThe Ukrainian military said Thursday it had recaptured more than 20 towns and villages in the northeastern Kharkiv region as part of a counter-offensive against Moscow’s forces. FRANCE 24’s Senior…
Continue ReadingDespite his father’s record of corruption and violence, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, known as Bongbong, won a landslide election in the Philippines. Did an online disinformation campaign help tip the scales?…
Continue ReadingIn the first trial of its kind in Europe, a drone was used to transport human tissue between two hospitals in Antwerp, Belgium, on Tuesday, in a test flight that it…
Continue ReadingApple has released an update to fix security flaws on its iPhone, iPad and Mac devices, which it said hackers may have "actively exploited". The tech company said the new…
Continue ReadingThe Halloween 2020 meeting in which Steve Bannon explained that Donald Trump planned to declare victory on election night, regardless of the actual results, was not supposed to be a…
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