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‘The war in Karabakh has made the possibility of conflict resolution even more distant’, fears Armenian politician Mikayel Zolyan · Global Voices
As fighting rages in Nagorno-Karabakh, what are the chances for peace? Armenian politician and analyst Mikayel Zolyan. Photo courtesy of Mikayel Zolyan, used with permission. The conflict currently raging in Nagorno-Karabakh does not only concern Armenia and Azerbaijan. Thus this conflict has significant international dimensions: neighbouring countries with interests inContinue Reading
Nobel Prize: how Penrose, Genzel and Ghez helped put black holes at the centre of modern astrophysics
NASA/JPL-Caltech The award of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez will be greeted with enormous pleasure by physicists and astronomers worldwide. It recognises the central importance of black holes in modern astrophysics, and the unique contributions of these three scientists in establishingContinue Reading
IPL 2020 LIVE Score, KKR vs CSK Today’s Match Live Updates: Kolkata Knight Riders Win Toss, Opt To Bat Against Chennai Super Kings
KKR vs CSK IPL 2020 Score: Chennai Super Kings will look to strike early.© BCCI/IPL Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have won the toss and opted to bat against last season’s runners-up Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the 21st match of the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on October 7. TheContinue Reading
Excel errors: the UK government has an embarrassingly long history of spreadsheet horror stories
TeodorLazarev/Shutterstock When the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, first said the country would develop a £12 billion “world-beating” system for testing and tracing cases of COVID-19, few people probably imagined that it would be based around a £120 generic spreadsheet program. Yet the news that the details of 16,000 positiveContinue Reading
Why you should never use Microsoft Excel to count coronavirus cases
PixieMe/Shutterstock Public Health England has admitted that 16,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK were missed from daily figures being reported between September 25 and October 2. The missing figures were subsequently added to the daily totals, but given the importance of these numbers for monitoring the outbreak and makingContinue Reading
Oxford is protecting students from China’s national security law – other universities must follow suit
Students at the University of Oxford will now submit some of their work on China anonymously. This, among other measures, is an important protection against China’s new national security law in Hong Kong, which makes it risky for anyone that appears to be criticising the Chinese government. Other universities mustContinue Reading
Rough sleeping fell during the pandemic – but can this success be sustained?
Two weeks after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic, the UK government announced Everyone In, a scheme to protect people sleeping rough from catching the virus. The policy was highly demanding. It gave local authorities across England just three days to move all people sleeping roughContinue Reading
Nagorno-Karabach: why Iran is trying to remain neutral over the conflict on its doorstep
Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan intensified in early October over Nagorno-Karabakh, the disputed region in the South Caucasus at the centre of a conflict that has lasted for more than three decades. The South Caucasus is sandwiched between Russia to the north, Iran to the south and Turkey to theContinue Reading
Grímsvötn: Iceland’s most active volcano may be about to erupt
The ice-covered Grímsvötn volcano on Iceland produced an unusually large and powerful eruption in 2011, sending ash 20km into the atmosphere, causing the cancellation of about 900 passenger flights. In comparison, the much smaller 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull led to the cancellation of about 100,000 flights. Understandably, any mention ofContinue Reading
Indian Premier League, KKR vs CSK: Dinesh Karthik Aces Kieron Pollard’s Break The Beard Challenge, Flaunts New Look. Watch | Cricket News
IPL 2020: Dinesh Karthik revealed his new look ahead of the game against Chennai Super Kings.© Instagram Dinesh Karthik, Kolkata Knight Riders captain, took to Instagram on Wednesday to flaunt his new look and aced the “Break the Beard” challenge after being nominated by Mumbai Indians all-rounder Kieron Pollard. “@kieron.pollard55Continue Reading