HOUSTON, Texas: NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, weighing 4-pounds, landed in Mars’ Jezero Crater along with NASA’s life-hunting, sample-caching Perseverance rover on 18th February 2021. Ingenuity easily completed its initial mission and was granted an extension, during which it has been serving as a scout for Perseverance. On 25th February, Ingenuity completed another milestone, its 20th […]
LONDON, England: According to a leaked company report seen by BBC News Arabic, the telecoms giant Ericsson put contractors’ lives at risk by insisting they continue working in territory controlled by the Islamic State [IS] group in Iraq, resulting in them being kidnapped by IS militants. The latest revelations follow last week’s admission by Ericsson […]
HAWTHORNE, California: After Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov asked Elon Musk to help the embattled country with internet connections, the SpaceX billionaire said Starlink is now available throughout Ukraine. “Starlink service is now active in Ukraine,” Musk tweeted some ten hours after the call for help. “More terminals en route.” Fedorov asked Musk for […]
FRANKFURT, Germany: Salvage teams have started assessing the damage caused by fire aboard the ship, Felicity Ace, which was scheduled to arrive in the Port of Davisville, Rhode Island on 23rd February. On 16th February, the vessel, carrying thousands of luxury vehicles owned by Volkswagen and its brands, began burning in the Atlantic Ocean near […]
NEW YORK CITY, New York: According to reports in the U.S. and Canada, liquor stores have begun dumping their stocks of Russian vodka, in protest of President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. As reported by the Canadian press, Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy directed the provincial Liquor Control Board to remove Russian vodka and other […]
(Op-Ed) Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies 1st March 2022, 04:41 GMT+11 The defenders of Ukraine are bravely resisting Russian aggression, shaming the rest of the world and the UN Security Council for its failure to protect them. It is an encouraging sign that the Russians and Ukrainians are holding talks in Belarus that […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Ukraine on Sunday (local time) filed an application instituting proceedings against the Russian Federation before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. Ukraine filed an application instituting proceedings against Russia concerning “a dispute . . . relating to the interpretation, application and fulfilment of […]
DUBLIN, Ireland: Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s Tanaiste (deputy prime minister), has called Vladimir Putin the “Hitler of the 21st century.” Speaking on February 26, Varadkar further labeled Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as an “atrocity” and indicated that Ireland would not remain politically neutral amidst the ongoing fighting. “We knew that Putin was a bad man, we’ve […]
LONDON, England: After President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine, Russian airline Aeroflot was banned from flying to the UK, and Ireland. The Czech Republic and Poland have also banned the Russian carrier from conducting flights to and from Prague and Warsaw. On Saturday night Germany too announced Russian aircraft would not be welcome […]
Russian forces launched coordinated missile and artillery attacks on Ukrainian cities on Saturday including the capital, Kyiv, where a curfew went into effect at 5pm local time. After Ukrainian forces said they had repulsed an attack on the capital overnight, President Volodymyr Zelensky shot a selfie-style video in the city centre vowing to stay and […]
