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Scientists used the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Large Array near Socorro, N.M., to detect fast radio bursts. Patrick Semansky/AP Unexplained, short radio bursts from outer space have puzzled scientists since they were first detected nearly a decade ago. The elusive flashes — known as […]

Older people who followed a Mediterranean diet retained more brain volume over a three-year period than those who did not follow the diet as closely, new research shows. But contrary to earlier studies, eating more fish and less meat was not related to changes in […]

“Lebanese Democratic” Party head, Displaced Minister, Talal Arslan, met on Thursday at his Khaldeh residence with French Ambassador to Lebanon, Emmanuel Bonne, with talks reportedly touching on most recent developments in Lebanon and the broad region. Ambassador Bonne was accompanied by a delegation of the […]

Two attackers, a policeman and a court worker have been killed in a car bomb and gun assault on a courthouse in the Turkish city of Izmir, state media say. Officials blamed Kurdish militants for the attack. A third attacker is reportedly still being sought. […]

Suspected Kurdish militants clashed with police and detonated a car bomb in western Turkey on Thursday after their vehicle was stopped at a checkpoint, killing a police officer and a court employee, officials said.   The explosion and gunfire outside the main courthouse in Izmir, […]

Time topic 8:30 Lebanese Mufti, Sheikh Abdul Latif Derian heads to Saudi Arabia on an official visit heading a delegation, through Rafik Hariri International Airport, and he will have a statement in the VIP lounge before traveling. 10:00 Ordinary session of the Council of Delegates […]

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is attacking Japan’s Toyota company, the world’s biggest automaker, for its plan to build its Corolla model in Mexico and then sell the compact car in the United States. “NO WAY!” Trump said in a Twitter message Thursday. “Build plant in […]

ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi forces have retaken around 70 percent of eastern Mosul from Islamic State militants and expect to reach the river bisecting the city in the coming days, Iraq’s joint operations commander told Reuters. Lieutenant General Talib Shaghati, who is also head […]

Tehran (AFP) – Iran has hit back at “unconstructive” Turkish allegations that Tehran’s allies were violating a fragile ceasefire in Syria, accusing rebels of breaking the truce. “The current ceasefire in Syria has been violated repeatedly by the anti-government armed opposition groups,” foreign ministry spokesman […]