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Millions lose unemployment benefits as Trump fails to sign economic relief bill into law

Millions of Americans have temporarily lost their unemployment benefits after President Donald Trump failed to sign the COVID relief bill into law.

Exceptionally well-preserved snack bar unearthed in Italy’s Pompeii

Researchers said they had discovered a frescoed thermopolium or fast-food counter in an exceptional state of preservation in Pompeii, Italy.

European businesses hopeful of China-EU investment deal

European businesses in China are hopeful of an EU-China investment deal by end of the year, the head of the European Union Chamber of...

Continents were weak, prone to destruction in their infancy

Monash University geologists in Melbourne, Australia, have shed new light on the early history of the Earth through their discovery that continents were weak...

Research breakthrough could transform clean energy technology

By some estimates, the amount of solar energy reaching the surface of the Earth in one year is greater than the sum of all...

It may be too late to save the world’s largest lake from climate change

Most people know the world's oceans are on the rise, but further inland, the scales of climate change are tipping in the exact opposite...

Johnson urges Tory MPs to back Brexit deal as full text published

The EU and the UK government have published the full text of the Brexit trade deal less than a week before it is due...

UK’s ivory ban delay ‘costing lives of elephants’

A delay in implementing a ban on selling ivory is costing elephants’ lives, experts say, with items made of tusks still being legally sold...

IRGC fully prepared to defend Iran’s security

Latest surveys have indicated that forces, systems and equipment of the naval units of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) are at the desired...

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