Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov was detained at the Paris-Le Bourget airport on Saturday, after arriving by a private plane from Baku, Azerbaijan. He is accused of having failed to moderate criminal activity on the platform. Here is what we know about Durov, Telegram and the case: Who is Durov and why was he detained? Russian-born …
The retrieval of the bodies of six Israeli captives by the Israeli military from Gaza this week has increased pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to secure the release of those who remain. On October 7, 239 people were taken captive during the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel. As part of a temporary truce in …
A stream of liquid water could be brimming beneath the craggy, tan rock crust on Mars, enough to make up a whole ocean, according to a NASA study, whose results were published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Here’s more about NASA’s latest discovery, and what it tells us …
2024 solar eclipse wows millions; next chance is 2044 The 2024 total solar eclipse offered a once-in-a-lifetime light show as it swept from Texas to Maine. The next solar eclipse will happen in 2044. Holland America Line is offering three cruises that will put ships in the path of the 2026 total solar eclipse. The …
A loose alliance of leftist parties has won the most seats in French legislative elections after a second round of voting. While the coalition has managed to keep France’s far-right away from power in the elections, which ended on Sunday, no single political party or alliance of parties has won a clear majority. Here is …
EXPLAINER President Luis Arce asserts authority as Bolivian Army General Juan Jose Zuniga, who was behind the coup d’etat bid, is arrested. Bolivian President Luis Arce thwarted an apparent attempted coup on Wednesday, as Army General Juan Jose Zuniga was arrested, hours after he led troops and tanks to storm the presidential palace in the …
As India’s election results become clearer, with hundreds of millions of votes counted and leads solidifying on most of the country’s 543 seats, the world’s — and history’s — largest democratic exercise appears to have thrown up some big surprises. As counting progressed on Tuesday, the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra …
If you’ve ever wanted to watch a movie that could reasonably be described as “intergalactic 300,” then boy does Zack Snyder have the film for you. Over the course of the two-hour-and-15-minute runtime of Rebel Moon, which begins a limited theatrical run Dec. 15 before streaming on Netflix Dec. 22, a band of space-traveling revolutionaries …