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The world's first wooden satellite has been built by Japanese researchers who said their tiny cuboid craft will be blasted off on a SpaceX rocket in September.Each side of the experimental satellite developed by scientists at Kyoto University and logging company Sumitomo Forestry measures just 1...
Israel carried out fresh strikes on Wednesday in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where its forces are battling Hamas militants, after the UN Security Council met to discuss a deadly attack that sparked global outcry.Despite mounting concern over the civilian toll of its war on Hamas, Israel has sho...
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Vlimir Putin has said that there would be "serious consequences" if Western countries allowed Ukraine to use their weapons to strike targets in Russia, as sought by Kyiv.The warning came as French President Emmanuel Macron said Kyiv should be allowed to "neutralise" Russian milit...
China on Wednesday hosts a litany of Arab dignitaries and diplomats ahead of a forum Beijing hopes will deepen ties with the region and present a "common voice" on the conflict between Israel and Hamas.Beijing has sought to build closer ties with Arab states in recent years, and last year ...
At least 27 people were killed on Wednesday when a bus plunged off the road into a deep ravine in southwestern Pakistan, hospital and government officials said.The crash happened around dawn in Basima town in Balochistan province while the bus was travelling from Turbat city to Quetta."The driv...
Jurors in Donald Trump's hush money trial begin deliberating Wednesday on whether to return the first criminal conviction of a former president -- a momentous decision that could upend the November presidential election.After weeks of testimony from more than 20 witnesses, the piercing glare of ...
Colombia's congress passed a bill Tuesday banning bullfighting, a controversial yet popular pastime in the South American country with hundreds of events drawing thousands of spectators every year.If approved by leftist President Gustavo Petro, who has in the past supported restrictions on ...
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky called Monday on the West to "use all means" to force Russia to peace talks during a visit to Madrid, which pledged one billion euros in military aid as a Russian offensive gained new ground.Russia said it has taken two more villages as part of its assa...
US President Joe Biden's absence from a Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland would be akin to giving Russian leader Vladimir Putin a standing ovation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday, urging maximum participation.Biden has yet to confirm whether or not he will attend the co...
Sports,Cricket
Skipper Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will look to end India's global title drought as the star duo step out for what is likely to be their final World Cup appearance.Rohit, 37, and Kohli, 35, have long been the twin torchbearers for the hopes of their cricket-mad nation, which last saw a major t...
Sports,Football
Cristiano Ronaldo broke the record for the most goals in a Saudi Pro League season when he struck for the 34th and 35th time in Al Nassr's final game of the campaign."I don't follow the records, the records follow me," the 39-year-old Portuguese forward tweeted afterwards. The...
Pakistan skipper Babar Azam is hoping it is third time lucky for his side at the T20 World Cup after finishing losing semi-finalists in 2021 and runners-up a year later.They squeaked a 2-2 T20 series draw at home against a depleted New Zealand in April before heading to Ireland where they slumped to...
Business & Commerce
China has poured more than $47 billion into the country's largest-ever chip investment fund, a business database showed on Monday, as Beijing seeks self-sufficiency in the crucial semiconductor manufacturing sector.Semiconductors are an indispensable part of the modern economy, used in everythin...
More than 2,000 people are feared buried in a Papua New Guinea landslide that destroyed a remote highland village, the government said Monday, as it pleaded for international help in the rescue effort.The once-bustling hillside community in Enga province was almost wiped out when a chunk of Mount Mu...
Early voting got under way in South Africa Monday, kick-starting what could be a historic election week, with the ruling African National Congress' majority on the line for the first time.More than 600,000 of the elderly and infirm, along with essential workers, police and prisoners, deemed unab...
A Thai court sentenced a lawmaker from the progressive Move Forward Party to two years in jail on Monday for insulting the monarchy.Chonthicha Jaengraew was found guilty under Thailand's strict lese-majeste laws over a speech she made during an anti-government protest in 2021. MFP won the most s...
France's President Emmanuel Macron on Monday visited the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, ahead of a trip to eastern Germany where he is expected to warn against the rise of the far right ahead of EU elections. Macron, who is undertaking the first state visit by a French president to Germany in a q...
Fighting between rival splinter groups of Colombia's now-defunct FARC guerrilla movement left at least eight dead over the weekend, a military source told AFP on Sunday.The clashes took place in Colombia's southern Caqueta department between the Carolina Ramirez Front and the Border Command ...
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Monday it had filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court over Palestinian journalists killed or injured in Gaza.RSF said it was asking the ICC's prosecutor to investigate alleged war crimes committed by the Israeli army against ...
A volcano in eastern Indonesia spewed a six-kilometre cloud of ash into the sky on Monday in the latest of nearly 100 eruptions since early this year.The fresh eruption at Mount Ibu on Halmahera island in North Maluku province occurred at 03:30 am local time (1830 GMT Sunday), and sent sand falling ...
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