First time physicists observe fleeting “polaron” quasiparticles
UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- Polarons are important nanoscale phenomena: a transitional configuration between electrons and atoms (known as quasiparticles) that exists for only a trillionth of a second.
These configurations have unique characteristics...
Astronomers have discovered an anomalous planetary system
UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- Using the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) probe, an international team of astronomers have discovered an interesting planetary system consisting of a K-dwarf host star, a Jupiter-sized...
Explosion at wedding hall in Afghanistan (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- Dozens of people were killed or wounded Saturday after an explosion ripped through a wedding hall in Afghanistan's capital, local officials say.
There was no immediate information on...
UN: 90 civilians killed in Libya’s Murzuq since early August
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- At least 90 civilians have been killed and more than 200 injured as a result of violent clashes that erupted earlier this month in the southern southwestern...
ISIS not already defeated
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- Several officials and experts say the Islamic State has not been defeated at all and that returning under this or another name is only a matter of...
Mermaid baby born in India
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- In the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a child with a rare violation was born. Doctors who took birth at the 22-year-old Tabassum have not encountered such...
No money, no sheep: threats weigh on Eid’s holiday in Kashmir
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- Security forces in Srinagar, the main town in Indian-controlled Kashmir, are likely to make it difficult for the population to observe on Monday the tradition of sacrificing...
ISIS threatens in a video to intensify its attacks
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group has pledged on Sunday (August 11th) to intensify its "fight" against the international coalition led by the United States and its...
Saudi-led military coalition hits separatists in Yemen
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- The Saudi-led military alliance said in a statement on Sunday it had targeted an area that posed a direct threat to an important position of the legitimate...
Displaced people in the Libyan capital seek to return to their homes by the...
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- Displaced people from the southern suburb of Tripoli are hoping to return to their homes by Eid al-Adha after fierce fighting erupted as Field Marshal Khalifa Aftar...
ISIS Group prepares resurgence of Caliphate
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- Long before the fall of its last bastion, the Islamic State prepared the switch from its activity to the clandestine insurrection. Although weakened, the terrorist organization retains...
The mastermind of the September 11 attacks presents a deal to US authorities at...
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- US media revealed that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11 attacks, expressed his willingness to testify against Saudi Arabia, in exchange for not sentenced...
Nearly 4,000 Afghan civilians killed and wounded in the first half of 2019: UN
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- At least 3,812 Afghan civilians were killed and wounded in the first half of 2019 during the war on militant groups, the United Nations said on Tuesday,...
Rohingya refugees refuse to return to Myanmar before they are recognized
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- Rwandan refugees in Bangladesh have refused to return to Myanmar unless they are recognized as an ethnic group, refugee leaders told officials from Myanmar on Sunday as...
Facts – Atomic restrictions imposed on Iran under the nuclear agreement
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- The parties to the nuclear deal signed by Iran in 2015 meet in Vienna for extraordinary talks to discuss rising tensions between Iran and the West, including...
Syria: UN denounces recent air strikes against civilians
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Friday denounced the growing number of civilians killed "by a succession of air strikes" in Idlib and...
UNICEF: 9 million Yemenis most in need receive cash assistance
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- Nine million people across Yemen received emergency cash assistance from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to meet their urgent needs as the conflict enters the fifth...
Immigrants who survived the drowning in Libya are waiting silently
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- The survivors of one of the worst tragedies of the Mediterranean are waiting for them to be transferred to a migrant center, while their sad faces look...
More than 400,000 displaced people during three months of escalation in northwestern Syria
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- More than 400,000 people have been displaced in northwestern Syria in three months amid the military escalation of the regime and its ally Russia, as the United...
UN condemns “indifference” to airstrikes in Syria
UNITED STATES, WASHINGTON (VOP TODAY NEWS) -- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet condemned on Friday "international indifference" to the lives of an increasing number of civilian deaths from air strikes in...