A powerful U.S.-Indian Earth-observing satellite has made it to the launch pad.
On July 24, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) rolled the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) spacecraft and its GSLV rocket out to the pad at…
Category: 4. World
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Hack Attack on Russia’s Aeroflot Strands Thousands, Corporate Database Erased
Ukrainian and Belarusian hackers laid low the Kremlin flagship airline Aeroflot on Monday, wiping data bases, publishing passwords, stranding thousands of travelers and demolishing the IT infrastructure of Russia’s biggest air passenger…
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13 children died of malnutrition-related causes in Darfur, Sudan doctors’ group says
CAIRO (AP) — Thirteen children died of malnutrition-related causes last month in a camp for displaced people in the Darfur region of Sudan, where civil war has created the world’s worst humanitarian…
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‘No Other Land’ Collaborator Shot Dead By Israeli Settler In West Bank
Palestinian activist and community leader Odeh Hathalin (aka Awdah Hathaleen), who worked with directors Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham on their Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been shot dead by an Israeli settler in the Occupied…
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Four killed and hundreds arrested as protests against fuel hikes in Angola turn violent
Angola is one of Africa’s largest oil producers but the country doesn’t have enough refineries to meet domestic demand, so imports diesel and gasoline at high prices.
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Fukushima nuclear plant clean up faces new delay in removing melted fuel debris
The start of full-scale removal of melted fuel debris at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan will be delayed for several years, the latest setback announced by the plant’s operator.
The Tokyo Electric Power…
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