“There is much evidence that Jabhat al-Nusra is mimicking and trying to disguise itself under new names, uniting with small groups not included in terrorist lists, hence, trying to escape retribution,” Sergey Lavrov told reporters after meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault in Moscow. Lavrov specifically referred to two militants groups, Ahrar Al-Sham and […]
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‘Groups sabotaging Syrian truce should be put on UN terrorist list’ – Lavrov
China’s Path into Africa Blocked
On Dec. 4-5, Chinese leaders visited Johannesburg’s central business district to pledge $60 billion to help industrialise the African continent. More than 40 African heads of state were in attendance for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (Focac). To me, Focac’s most impressive feature was the hard-sell by Beijing’s local allies. In an unprecedented display of […]
Sonic ‘tractor beam’: Engineers develop device to ‘manipulate objects’ &‘defy gravity’
A new system that creates “sound holograms” in midair and traps objects inside, keeping them from falling, has been designed by a group of researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex, in collaboration with Ultrahaptics, sciencemag.org reports. “In our device we manipulate objects in mid-air and seemingly defy gravity,” said Sriram Subramanian, Professor of […]