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The latest test of NASA's giant Moon rocket SLS has been pushed back to allow for a SpaceX rocket to launch later this week, the US space agency announced Tuesday.The dress rehearsal for the giant Space Launch System had been scheduled for Friday at launch pad 39B at Cape Canaveral, Florida, at ...
NASA on Friday began a critical two-day-long test of its giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket complete with a simulated countdown, as the agency gears up to return humans to the Moon.Known as the “wet dress rehearsal,” it is the final major test before the Artemis-1 mission this summer...
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US President Joe Biden, back from a high-stakes trip to Europe focused on Russia's war against Ukraine, hosts the prime minister of Singapore Tuesday in a chance to address crucial US challenges across Asia. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will meet Biden in the Oval Office at 10:35 &n...
The United States is sending six US Navy radar-jamming aircraft to Germany to enhance NATO capabilities, the Pentagon said Monday.The EA-18G Growler aircraft are "not being deployed to be used against Russian forces in Ukraine," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said."They are being deplo...
The United States has cancelled planned talks in Doha with the Taliban after the hardline Islamist rulers of Afghanistan shut girls secondary schools, US officials said."On Tuesday, we joined millions of Afghan families in expressing our deep disappointment with the Taliban's decision to no...
Former US president Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party leaders and others alleging they falsely accused him of colluding with Russia ahead of the 2016 election."In the run-up to the 2016 Presidential Election, Hillary Clinton and her cohorts orche...
US President Joe Biden on Friday will visit a town in Poland that is near the border with Ukraine, the White House said, as he seeks to show Western resolve against Russia's invasion.Biden will be greeted by Polish President Andrzej Duda in Rzeszow, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the Ukrain...
US consumer prices hit a new 40-year high last month as the world's largest economy continued to be battered by a surge of inflation, which the fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine is expected to worsen. The consumer price index (CPI) was 7.9 percent higher in February compared to the s...
The United States on Friday sanctioned two Russian individuals and three entities over their support for North Korea's weapons program, the Treasury Department said.The measures came a day after the Pentagon published an intelligence cassessment that two recent North Korea missile launches were ...
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The World Bank on Monday approved an additional $489-million package in support for Ukraine, to be made available immediately and dubbed "Financing of Recovery from Economic Emergency in Ukraine," or "FREE Ukraine."On March 1, the Washington-based institution announced it was pre...
The US and Russian armed forces have set up a direct phone line to reduce the risks of "miscalculation" amid the war in Ukraine, the Pentagon said Friday.The "deconfliction line" between US European Command and the Russian Ministry of Defense was established earlier this week, Pe...
The World Bank on Wednesday announced it was halting all of its ongoing projects in Russia and Belarus in response to the invasion of Ukraine.Citing the "hostilities against the people of Ukraine," the development lender said it "has stopped all its programs in Russia and Belarus with...
President Joe Biden won standing ovation upon standing ovation Tuesday in a rousing State of the Union speech seeking to transform bipartisan support for confronting Russia into momentum for broader unity as the United States finally emerges from the Covid pandemic.The entire first section of Biden&...
The leaders of the World Bank and IMF signaled Thursday they were ready to help Ukraine, while warning that Russia's invasion will have repercussions for the global economic recovery.IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said she was "deeply concerned" about the fighting's imp...
The United States has warned the United Nations it has information that Russia has lists of Ukrainians "to be killed or sent to camps" in the event of an invasion, according to a letter sent to the UN rights chief and obtained by AFP Sunday. The letter, which came as Washington warne...
The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to consider whether President Joe Biden can end a controversial Trump-era border policy that denies asylum-seekers entry to the United States while their case is reviewed.The Democratic president's administration in December asked the conservative-leaning hi...
The International Monetary Fund has appointed former Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann to head an independent expert panel following allegations of data tampering against IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva, the body said Friday.Georgieva was engulfed in controversy last year after an investigation conc...
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The Pentagon said Thursday it had evidence of a plan by Moscow to film a fake Ukrainian attack on Russians to justify a real assault on its pro-West neighbour. "We do have information that the Russians are likely to want to fabricate a pretext for an invasion," said Pentagon spokesper...
The International Monetary Fund is ready to discuss "options" with Sri Lanka if the government asks for financial support, its mission chief for the island told AFP on Thursday.The Covid-19 pandemic has had a disastrous impact on Sri Lanka's economy, which has been deprived of its tour...
A US intelligence agency said Wednesday that its newest spy satellite successfully launched into orbit atop a reusable SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.The rocket took off at 12:27 pm local time (2027 GMT) from the Vandenberg Air Force base in California, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which is in ...
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