IMAGE CREDITS: GEEKWIRE According to The Verge, eight countries have agreed to NASA’s Artemis Accords, whose intention is to create a diverse coalition of nations committed to the standardization of lunar exploration. These nations include the US, Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. [Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: PSYCHIATRY ADVISOR  According to a study published in Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, patients who contracted COVID-19 were found to have an altered mental state or encephalopathy, showing symptoms like short-term memory loss, dementia, confusion, stupor, or a coma like consciousness.  In the study, a team of[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: YAHOO NEWS China reportedly censored Vice President Mike Pence, but not California Sen. Kamala Harris, during the vice presidential debate on Wednesday. As Pence began to criticize Beijing’s response to COVID-19 Wednesday night, saying “China is to blame,” CNN’s feed in China suddenly cut out and the words[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: YAHOO FINANCE TOKYO — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met his counterparts from Japan, Australia and India on Tuesday, in an attempt to bolster an alliance to counter China’s growing assertiveness. China has pursued an increasingly aggressive foreign policy under President Xi Jinping, while the Trump administration has[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: PRESIDENT.AM  The re-emergence of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region have ratcheted up fears of a wider regional conflict. The fighting, which started last Sunday morning, is the most serious since the ceasefire agreement was signed in 1994. Both sides have employed heavy weapons[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: DAILY NEWS An American could face prison after giving a bad TripAdvisor review to an island resort in Thailand, according to CBS News. The resort sued Wesley Barnes and he could face up to two years in prison if found guilty. According to the Tripadvisor review Barnes posted[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: KCNA/AP PHOTO North Korean leader Kim Jong Un apologized Friday over the killing of a South Korean official who was allegedly trying to defect near the rivals’ disputed sea boundary, according to AP News. The message from Kim Jong Un, as cited by an advisor to South Korean[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: MONSTERCHILDREN.COM According to a psychiatric expert in London Tuesday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is “very likely to attempt suicide” if he is sent to the United States to face espionage charges.  Assange faces 18 charges under the U.S. Espionage Act relating to the 2010 release by WikiLeaks of[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP  A Russian cult leader who claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus has been arrested by Russian authorities, according to the Guardian.  Sergei Torop, known to his followers as Vissiarion, is a former traffic police officer and has run a cult in the depths of Siberia[Read More…]

PHOTO CREDITS: THE CITIZEN After reports surfaced Monday that U.S. intelligence officials believe Tehran is considering a plan to assassinate a U.S. ambassador, President Trump warned Iran that his administration’s response to that action would be “1,000 times greater in magnitude.” ~ Politico reported over the weekend that two unidentified[Read More…]