Sat 07 October 2023: Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, has said his company could land a spacecraft on Mars within the next three to four years. The tech billionaire made remarks on Thursday during a virtual address at the International Astronautical Congress in Baku, Azerbaijan, where he engaged in a one-hour question-and-answer […]
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Sat 07 October 2023: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg appointed a 10-person independent expert group Friday to support the assessment of the alliance’s approach to the South, especially the Middle East, North Africa and the Sahel regions, according to a statement. The group of diplomats, academics and soldiers. include former Turkish Ambassador to Paris, Ali Onaner. […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: Weather-related disasters forcibly displaced a staggering 43.1 million children across 44 countries over the past six years, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday. That figure translates to an alarming average of 20,000 children uprooted every day. The findings are contained in UNICEF’s latest report, Children Displaced in a Changing […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: The Biden administration is expected to announce a new weapons package for Ukraine next week as the Pentagon continues to use up funds discovered due to a multibillion-dollar accounting error, according to US officials. The funds have allowed Washington to send Kyiv military support despite the exclusion of new Ukraine aid […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: According to a recent survey, one-third of Americans today prefer not to identify with any religion. In contrast to earlier comparable polls, the number of people who simply identified as Christians has also drastically decreased. Between May 11 and May 15, Associated Press-NORC conducted the survey. The poll of 1,680 adults […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her British counterpart Rishi Sunak have vowed to fight “illegal” migration to Europe, describing the issue as a humanitarian crisis, with shipwrecks of unsafe boats claiming more than 2,000 lives this year. “Every week, thousands of migrants cross the Mediterranean to reach Italy, entering Europe […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women’s rights advocate, has won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all”, according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the awarding body. Hailing Mohammadi as a “freedom fighter”, […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: The plane crash that killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, according to Vladimir Putin, was caused by hand grenades detonating inside the jet, and the Wagner chief may have been high on drugs. Making his first comments on the cause of the crash, Putin claimed the plane was blown up from inside, saying that […]
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Fri 06 October 2023: Authorities in Tenerife have evacuated about 3,000 people from their homes overnight as a wildfire sparked by high temperatures and strong winds raged in a forest already ravaged by blaze in August. Unseasonal hot weather plus strong winds has reignited a wildfire that originally began on Aug. 15. The blaze has […]
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Emergency workers search the rubble of a Russian rocket attack that killed at least 49 people in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine [Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP] Thu 05 October 2023: Ukrainian officials say at least 51 people have been killed after a Russian missile hit a supermarket in the Kupiansk district […]
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