Sat 27 April 2024: The United States government has tasked its space agency, NASA, with establishing a standard time zone for the moon, which will be known as Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT). In a memo issued on April 2, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) stated: “Federal agencies will develop celestial time […]
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Sat 27 April 2024: Thirty antiquities that were stolen, sold, or illegally shifted by networks of American antiquities traders and traffickers have been returned to Cambodia and Indonesia, according to New York City prosecutors. Alvin Bragg, the district attorney for Manhattan, stated in a statement on Friday that the artifacts were worth at $3 million […]
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Sat 27 April 2024: Paramedics and rescue teams involved in the recovery of civilian bodies from mass graves at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, located in the southern Gaza Strip, have raised concerns about potential organ theft by Israeli forces. Following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Khan Yunis city, three mass graves […]
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Fri 26 April 2024: The Taliban Acting Minister of Interior Affairs Sirajuddin Haqqani has said in a meeting with a delegation from Malaysia in Kabul that Malaysia is an advanced country and that Afghanistan should use is experiences. According to a statement released by the Interior Ministry, Haqqani, in the meeting on Thursday, emphasized that […]
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Fri 26 April 2024: French authorities have been conducting evictions of migrants and refugees from areas in the capital Paris, apparently in preparation for the country’s hosting of the Olympic Games in three months. In recent weeks, police and gendarmes in Paris have been seen entering and clearing makeshift camps located throughout the city, such […]
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Former SA President Nelson Mandela’s grandson joined the Freedom Flotilla, which is set to sail to break the Israeli blockade on Gaza. Fri 26 April 2024: Organisers say the initiative aims to challenge Israel’s 17-year-old blockade and put an end to the ongoing ‘genocide’. A flotilla of ships set to depart for the Gaza […]
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Fri 26 April 2024: Eskom anticipates that load shedding will likely be “maintained within Stage 2” this winter period. This is according to the power utility’s Group Chief Executive Dan Marokane, who was speaking during the State of the System and Winter Outlook media briefing held at Megawatt Park on Friday. He said the forecast was […]
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Fri 26 April 2024: A slight majority of Americans (53 percent) have little or no confidence in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to do the right thing regarding world affairs, including 25% who have no confidence in him at all, according to a Pew Research Center survey. This compared to 21% of Americans who said they have […]
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Fri 26 April 2024: The court was hearing WhatsApp’s 2021 petitions challenging a provision of the 2021 Information Technology Rules for social media intermediaries, requiring them to identify the first originator of information. New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp told the Delhi high court on Thursday (April 25) that it will effectively close operations in India and leave […]
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A Xiaomi SU7 electric vehicle on display at the Xiaomi Electric Vehicle Flagship Store. Fri 26 April 2024: Western car makers, already bruised by the scramble among themselves for a share of the electric vehicle (EV) market, are facing a much more fearsome foe – China and its aggressive investment into the sector. Tesla, perhaps […]
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