London’s Metropolitan Police deployed at least 4,000 officers on Saturday in response to the two major protests in the heart of the city: one in support of Palestinians and the other a nationalist, far-right movement.
Category: 19 May 2026
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ZELENSKY’S FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF ENSNARED IN CORRUPTION PROBE
The former chief of staff to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was arrested last week in an anti-corruption probe for allegedly working with a criminal group in laundering about $10.5 million tied to a construction project just outside the capital, bringing unwanted attention to the country’s corruption problem.
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GERMANY ON THE WAR PATH WITH FOCUS ON RUSSIA
Last week, Boris Pistorius, the German defense minister, visited Kyiv to talk about the bond forged by war between Ukraine and Germany, and announced a new strategic relationship between the countries that he said will be a “long-term partnership to be reckoned with.”
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GERMANY’S AfD SEES SURGE IN SUPPORT AS COUNTRY DEALS WITH ECONOMIC FALLOUT FROM IRAN WAR
Germany’s right-wing populist party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), has seen its popularity inside the country surge after the start of the Iran War because Germans are now facing higher energy prices to compound their economic pressures that were palpable even before the U.S. and Israel launched the illegal war of aggression on 28 February.
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“LIVING PLASTIC” CAN DEGRADE WITHIN DAYS
A discarded piece of plastic can take one thousand years to dissolve and even then, it can leave microparticles that make their way into food systems and living things ranging from bacteria to humans.
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UNDERSEA GENERATOR RUNS ON MICROBES
At Michigan Technological University, a team developed a system to power subsurface sensors for a long time.
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A GUT BACTERIUM COULD BE THE CAUSE OF AGE-RELATED MEMORY LOSS
Scientists at Stanford University were intrigued by research elsewhere suggesting that gut bacteria are involved in cognition.