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US and UK strikes on rebel-held Yemen last week marked a sharp rise in tensions around the Red Sea, where Iran-backed Huthi insurgents had been attacking shipping deemed linked to Israel. The Huthi attacks, in protest at Israel’s war against Hamas, were disrupting shipping in the commercially vital route which normally carries about 12 percent of global maritime trade. Here is a timeline of events over the past week: January 12 US and UK forces […]
A critically endangered western lowland gorilla was born at London Zoo on Wednesday morning after a speedy 17-minute labour, the zoo said. Western lowland gorillas, which inhabit dense and largely remote rainforests in west and central Africa, are classified as having a high risk of becoming extinct. Numbers have declined by more than 60 percent over the last 25 years, due largely to deforestation, poaching and disease, according to the Zoological Society of London. Soon […]
By Esther MAMANI As a kid growing up in poverty in rural Bolivia, Roly Mamani built his own toys. Now a 34-year-old engineer, he 3D prints limbs for Indigenous compatriots scarred by life-changing accidents. Mamani funds the endeavor with the money he makes from selling robotic toys he makes — his other passion, which, after building his first remote-controlled toy car as a child, he never abandoned. Surrounded by prostheses, plants and 3D-printed dinosaurs in […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday signed over control of resource-rich Arctic lands to the government of the predominantly Inuit territory of Nunavut, in what was billed as the largest land transfer in Canada’s history. Nunavut, at more than two million square kilometers (800,000 square miles), is almost three times the size of the US state of Texas and is believed to hold some of the richest resource deposits in the country including gold, diamonds […]
By Issam AHMED WASHINGTON, Jan 19, 2024 (AFP) – A crippled American spaceship has been lost over a remote region of the South Pacific, probably burning up in the atmosphere in a fiery end to its failed mission to land on the Moon. Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander was launched on January 8 under an experimental new partnership between NASA and private industry intended to reduce costs for American taxpayers and seed a lunar economy. But it […]
By Mathiew LEISER MONTREAL, Jan 19, 2024 (AFP) – Canadian artist and academic Sandra Rodriguez, by hacking artificial intelligence, hopes to demystify the novel technology topping the news of late, while showcasing its power and potential to brighten but also disrupt our lives. In a dimly lit Montreal art space, visitors interact with her exhibit — an AI trained on millions of online searches for erotica that generates a mosaic of pornographic videos that eventually […]
SANAA, Jan 19, 2024 (AFP) – Yemen’s Huthi rebels claimed another attack on a US ship early Friday, after the United States launched fresh strikes on rebel targets over their aggression towards vessels in and around the Red Sea. While the Iran-backed rebels maintained they had struck the commercial vessel in the Gulf of Aden, the US military later said the group’s missiles had missed their mark. In a statement posted to social media, the […]
WASHINGTON, Jan 19, 2024 (AFP) – Washington stressed once again Thursday it believes creation of a Palestinian state is the only way to guarantee Israel’s long-term security, putting the US-Israeli divide on the matter on sharp display. The comments come as questions swirl over the fate of the Gaza Strip when the Israel-Hamas war is over. Earlier Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country “must have security control over all the territory west […]
SEOUL, Jan 19, 2024 (AFP) – North Korea said Friday that it had tested an “underwater nuclear weapon system” in response to joint naval exercises by Washington, Seoul and Tokyo that involved a US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. The drills were “seriously threatening the security” of the North, so in response, Pyongyang “conducted an important test of its underwater nuclear weapon system ‘Haeil-5-23’ under development in the East Sea of Korea,” according to a statement from […]
(Eagle News)–The Sandiganbayan Fifth Division on Friday, Jan. 19, acquitted Senator Jinggoy Estrada of plunder in connection with the pork barrel scam. Estrada, however, was convicted by the anti-graft court of one count of direct bribery and two counts of indirect bribery. For direct bribery, Estrada may face jail time of eight to nine years. For indirect bribery, meanwhile, he may face imprisonment of at least two to three years. Estrada was charged over P55.79 […]
By Chandan Khanna with Issam Ahmed in Washington KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, United States, Jan 18, 2024 (AFP) – An all-European crew including Turkey’s first astronaut launched for the International Space Station on Thursday with Axiom Space, as countries increasingly look to the private sector to fulfill their ambitions in the cosmos. A SpaceX Crew Dragon fixed to the top of a Falcon 9 rocket blasted off Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 4:49 pm local […]
(Eagle News)–President Bongbong Marcos has directed the consolidation of tourism services to make the Philippines competitive in the global tourism market. The President gave the directive after meeting with members of the Private Sector Advisory Council Tourism Sector to discuss plans to attract tourists to the country. In giving the directive, the President recounted a friend’s decision to go to Thailand instead of the Philippines because in the first, everything tourism-related is being taken care […]
