Explosion hits Coptic church in Egypt's Tanta
At least 15 people killed in blast at a church in city of Tanta in country's north, sources say.
At least 15 were killed in an explosion inside a church in the Egyptian Nile delta city of Tanta, sources told Al Jazeera.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility and the cause of the blast was not yet known.
Egypt's state television reported that at least 42 people were wounded in the blast.
A bombing at Cairo's largest Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people and wounded 49 in December, many of them women and children, in the deadliest attack on Egypt's Christian minority in years.
US navy strike group moves towards Korean peninsula, official says
Donald Trump speaks to acting leader of South Korea after Syria missile strike described by North as ‘intolerable act of aggression’The US navy has deployed a strike group towards the western Pacific Ocean to provide a presence near the Korean peninsula, a US official said on Saturday.
The Carl Vinson strike group, which includes an aircraft carrier, was originally scheduled to make port calls in Australia, but is now on its way from Singapore to the western Pacific ocean.
“US Pacific Command ordered the Carl Vinson Strike Group north as a prudent measure to maintain readiness and presence in the western Pacific,” said Commander Dave Benham, spokesman at US Pacific Command.
Serbian protesters accuse media of turning blind eye, as anti-corruption rallies continue
‘We are here to demand more democracy, an end to Vučić’s dictatorial regime and a better future’
Thousands of protesters gathered outside the Serbian government headquarters in Belgrade on Saturday to rally against corruption, after the overwhelming election victory of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić.
The protesters, mainly students, stood outside the National Assembly building for the sixth day in a row, blowing whistles and banging pots, AP reported.
But despite the daily rallies, protesters claim they are not receiving widespread coverage due to a media blackout.
Distorted ViewsPro-Erdogan Sites Take Aim at Critics in Germany
Websites like the Ottoman Generation and Muslim Mainstream have become gathering points for supporters of Erdogan in Germany. But they are also being used to incite hatred against the Turkish president's critics.
By Susan Djahangard and Katrin Elger
"Our leader until death. 'Yes' until death. The Fatherland until death," is scrawled on a piece of paper. It's a woman's brief love letter to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, complete with two red hearts. She then took a picture of it, along with her ballot, using her smartphone. She then posted it on Facebook, for the world to see.
Other online messages are openly hostile. "I stamped my vote as if I were bashing the infidels," wrote one Turkish-German man, who also photographed his note next to his ballot. For Turkey's upcoming national referendum on whether to amend their constitution, voters don't check off a box -- they instead stamp their decision onto the ballot with "Hayir" (no) or with "Evet" (yes).
The war in Syria, explained
How Syria’s civil war became America’s problem.
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On the face of it, President Trump’s decision to attack Syria doesn’t make a lot of sense. Launching 59 missiles at a single airbase, as Trump did, is not going to seriously change the outcome of a years-long civil war. So what’s the point of doing it at all?
Understanding the answer to that question, and really anything the United States does and does not do in Syria, requires understanding the real nature of the country’s horrific civil war. At its heart, it is a conflict between a regime that represents a minority of its citizens and the majority who want it gone. But over time, it has spiraled into an immensely complicated international war, with some of America’s most significant enemies and closest partners on various different sides.
“It has been one of the hardest issues that I’ve faced as president,” President Barack Obama said in a December 2016 press conference. “Syria is the most complex, complicated issue I have ever had to deal with," then-CIA Director John Brennan said during a discussion at the Brookings Institution last year.
Robots expected to play key role in Fukushima decommissioning, but challenges remain
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As decommissioning work at Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant continues, remote control robots are expected to play an important role in the decommissioning process. However, it is impossible to ignore the fact that the development of these robots faces huge challenges, such as high levels of radiation within the nuclear reactors, as well as a lack of information.
Among the robots that have been designed to carry out decommissioning work is the "muscle robot." Developed by Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd., the body and limbs of the muscle robot can be controlled with a device that one might typically find attached to a video game console. Another type of robot acts like a crab with claws that can be used to grasp metallic pipes and snap them using a blade positioned on one of its claws. These robots are also able to smash concrete, using a special drill that can be placed at the end of the arm -- like something out of a Hollywood movie.
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