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Conor McGregor on UFC 246 test: 'I can read Donald like a children's book' Conor McGregor was respectful and reserved at a drama-free pre-fight press conference ahead of UFC 246, but that didn't stop the Irishman from predicting a KO victory against Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone in Las Vegas on Saturday night. McGregor and Cerrone happily shared the dais together at the Pearl Theater at the Palms hotel and casino ahead of their main event fight on Saturday night. And while McGregor predicted that "blood will be spilled," the Dubliner insisted that "it will not be bad blood." McGregor seemed focused and happy ahead of his long-awaited return to the octagon, but although he clearly respects Cerrone – who holds the UFC records for most fights, most wins, mos...

US military resumes joint ops in Iraq that were halted after Soleimani's killing – reports The US military has reportedly resumed anti-terrorism ops and joint drills with Iraq that had been suspended after Washington assassinated a top Iranian commander in Baghdad. American forces have begun to take part in missions against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) militants in Iraq, US officials have said, adding that the military will soon recommence its training of Iraqi troops. However, the joint US-Iraq operations are not as numerous as they were before, according to reports. The resumption of anti-terrorism operations comes nearly two weeks after a US drone strike killed Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani. The targeted assassination enraged Baghdad, p...

India needs to go on global anti-terrorism spree like US did after 9/11 – defense chief India’s new chief of defense staff, General Bipin Rawat, has said that the ‘war on terror’ is far from over and its roots need to be analyzed in order to combat terrorism. “Terrorism is here to stay. So long as there are… states that are going to sponsor terrorism and… use terrorists as proxies, make weapons available to them, [provide] funding for them, then we can’t control terrorism,” Gen. Rawat said, as quoted by local media. We have to bring an end to terrorism and that can only happen the way Americans started after the 9/11 terror attack. They said let’s go on a spree… [a] global war on terror. Also on rt.com Tanks, in...

‘A historic announcement’: 2020 US census to tally Sikhs as separate ‘ethnicity’ for first time The Sikh community in the US will be counted as a separate ethnic group for the first time ever in this year’s census, a long sought goal of a number of Sikh organizations in the country. While the total number of adherents of the religious community living in the US remains something of a mystery – ranging between fewer than 100,000 and 1 million depending on who one asks – the traditionally “hard to count” population will now be explicitly tallied in the upcoming census. “It's clear that a separate code is needed to ensure an accurate count of Sikhs in the United States, recognizing a unique identity,” US Census Deputy Director Ron Jarmin told PTI. Hail...

From microbes to man: Muck-dwelling organism found off Japanese coast could help explain how complex life arose on Earth A strange microbe found buried deep in the mud off of Japan’s southern coast may finally unravel one of evolution’s most pressing mysteries, helping scientists understand how complex life forms emerged from the primordial ooze. Taking its name from Prometheus – the Greek titan who fashioned mankind from a slab of clay – the newly discovered Prometheoarchaeum syntrophicum was found embedded over a mile under the ocean surface in the muddy seabed near Japan’s Kii Peninsula. The team behind the discovery published their findings in Nature on Wednesday. ©  Nature / Imachi, H., Nobu, M.K., Nakahara, N. et al....

‘Negative’: Audio suggests Delta flight crew told controls it WON’T NEED to dump fuel before dousing school kids outside LA The crew of the Boeing 777 that showered schools outside Los Angeles with jet fuel on Tuesday apparently told controllers they were not going to release the toxic liquid right before they did so, newly-released audio implies. The plot has thickened in the highly unusual mishap, which saw Delta Airlines Flight 89 dump thousands of gallons of volatile jet fuel on unsuspecting students and staff in five elementary schools and one high school outside Los Angeles on Tuesday. An audio recording of communications between the LAX airport control tower and the pilots of the Delta flight reveals that air traffic controllers asked the cre...