Soldiers have allegedly assaulted a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police and President General of Imufu Town Union, in Igbo Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, Lawrence Mamah, for alleged refusal to name members of the Indigenous People of Biafra in his community. Mamah, who was a former Divisional Crime Officer in the Nkanu
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At least two people have died as a result of the McKinney Fire in Northern California, authorities said, which is now the largest wildfire the state has seen so far this year.
A comment from State Duma Deputy Svetlana Zhurova.
So why did Judge Sue L. Robinson suspend Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson for six games? Great question. And it’s impossible to answer that question without reading her ruling. We’re told that it’s a 16-page document. But we haven’t seen it yet. For now, the NFL and the NFL Players Association have not published the decision. [more]
Beijing (AFP) July 28, 2022
China's minister for industry and information technology is being investigated for alleged corruption, state media reported Thursday, the latest senior cadre to be snared by Beijing's sweeping crackdown.
Xiao Yaqing is among the biggest names caught up in President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption drive, and the investigation into him comes ahead of a key leadership summit this autumn where the
San Francisco (AFP) July 29, 2022
Instagram will pause features that users have campaigned against and complained make the social network too much like TikTok, according to a report in the Platformer tech newsletter Thursday.
Celebrity sisters Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner were some of the most vocal users to have posted messages on social media this week calling for the company to "make Instagram Instagram again" and stop
Beijing (AFP) July 31, 2022
China's manufacturing activity logged a surprise drop in July, official data showed Sunday, on the back of weak demand and as strict zero-Covid restrictions continue to cast a pall on growth.
The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), a key gauge of manufacturing activity in the world's second-biggest economy, came in at 49.0 in July, down from 50.2 June and below the 50-point mark separating gro
Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 1, 2022
HSBC bank on Monday said pre-tax profit fell in the first half, and appeared to rebuff calls to spin off its Asian activities on the eve of a key shareholder meeting.
Pre-tax earnings sank 15 percent to US$9.2 billion after it took a $1.1-billion hit on possible credit losses "to reflect heightened economic uncertainty and inflation", HSBC said.
The result "reflected a more normalised le
Luxembourg (SPX) Jul 28, 2022
SES and AXESS Networks (AXESS), a leading provider of satellite connectivity solutions, are accelerating digital transition of the mining industry with SES's second-generation medium earth orbit (MEO) system O3b mPOWER, the two companies announced Wednesday. Under this multi-year, multi-million agreement, the mining sector users will be able to benefit from the cutting-edge low-latency Onshore E
Long Beach CA (SPX) Jul 28, 2022
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) ("Rocket Lab" or "the Company"), a leading launch and space systems company, announced that its high-efficiency, radiation-hardened Coverglass Interconnected solar Cell (CIC) assemblies will power the three Lockheed Martin Next Gen OPIR GEO (NGG) satellites for the United States Space Force (USSF).
The NGG program will deliver resilient global missile wa
Madrid (AFP) July 29, 2022
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday called on office workers to throw sartorial caution to the wind and ditch their ties amid scorching summer temperatures.
In a move some might be surprised was even necessary given Spain's famously hot climate, Sanchez urged office workers to follow his own tie-free lead.
"I would like you to see that I am not wearing a tie," said Sanchez, sm
Athens July 29, 2022
Visiting German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Friday rejected Turkish territorial claims to Greek islands in the Aegean, urging Ankara to respect Greek sovereignty.
"The Greek islands of Lesbos, Chios, Rhodes and many others are Greek territories and nobody has the right to question them," said Baerbock alongside Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias.
Greece and Turkey have long b
Monterrey, Mexico (AFP) July 30, 2022
Mexico on Friday announced measures to ease water shortages in the northern industrial powerhouse of Monterrey, including a new aqueduct, another dam and more wells.
The plan aims to guarantee water supplies for the northern city over the next decade, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said.
Residents of Monterrey, one of Mexico's wealthiest cities, have faced weeks of water rationing
Paris (SPX) Aug 01, 2022
In just a few months' time Europe's first Meteosat Third Generation satellite will soar into the skies on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana. From geostationary orbit, this new satellite, carrying two new highly sensitive instruments, will take weather forecasting to the next level. Taking a significant step towards launch, the satellite operations teams at two different centres have complete
Beijing (XNA) Jul 29, 2022
China used a Long March 2D carrier rocket to launch several remote-sensing satellites on Friday night, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the country's leading space contractor.
The rocket blasted off at 9:28 pm at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province and soon placed the Yaogan 35-02 satellites, the third group of spacecrafts in the Yaogan 35 remot
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 01, 2022
A new study in AGU's Geophysical Research Letters reports on the first detection of a large, distant earthquake in a network of balloon-bound pressure sensors in the stratosphere. The technique could one day be applied on Venus, whose hot, dense and corrosive atmosphere limits our ability to sense Venus-quakes from the planet's surface. The balloons could also be used on Earth in hard-to-reach p
Erlangen, Germany (SPX) Aug 01, 2022
Long periods in space damage bone structure irreparably in some cases and can make parts of the human skeleton age prematurely by up to 10 years. This is what a sport scientist at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) has now discovered in conjunction with other researchers from Germany, Canada and the USA.
Adapted training programs in conjunction with medication could provide better prot
Paris (SPX) Aug 01, 2022
This week's image shows ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti hard at work on her first ever spacewalk, conducted alongside cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev. Not only that, but this spacewalk was also the first conducted by a European woman, and the first conducted by a European in an Orlan spacesuit from the International Space Station. Congratulations, Samantha!
The pair of spacewalkers worked on
Beijing (XNA) Jul 29, 2022
Debris of the recently launched Long March 5B carrier rocket of China fell back to the Earth and ended up in the Pacific Ocean early Sunday morning, with most of the remnants burnt up during the reentry process, the China Manned Space Agency said.
The debris' atmospheric reentry and crash took place around 12:55 am (Beijing time), the agency said in a brief statement, noting the touchdown
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 25, 2022
The Department of Defense has awarded two firm fixed price Other Transaction (OT) Agreement modifications to exercise options; one to Northrop Grumman and one to Raytheon through the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) authority under 10 U.S.C. 4022.
Each modification has an approximate value of $41.5M and an anticipated Period of Performance through February 2023. These modifications will allo
New York NY (SPX) Jul 28, 2022
oday Wallaroo Labs announced that they have been selected by SPACEWERX, the innovation arm of the US Space Force (USSF), to solve edge model deployment challenges specific to On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (OSAM) missions. This fully funded Phase 1 project in collaboration with Catalyst Campus (CCTI) will look at edge model deployment challenges for use cases like satellite life
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 29, 2022
Today's plan is chock full of goodies! We start out sol 3546 with a ChemCam observation of a sand ripple "Deposito" and an RMI observation of the Bolivar outcrop in the distance. Then we'll do some Mastcam observations of Deposito, "Lilas" which is one of our robotic arm targets later in the sol, Bolivar, and "Deepdale." Once all that wraps up, we'll get into our robotic arm activities for the s
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 28, 2022
Space travel is about to get safer, more comfortable, and even more thrilling. Space Perspective, Planet Earth's leading luxury space travel company, unveils the patent-pending Spaceship Neptune capsule design now in production at the company's state-of-the-art campus, near its Operations Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
As the only carbon neutral way to space, Space Perspec
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 29, 2021
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin plans to launch its sixth space tourism flight next week with six people, including the first Egyptian and Portuguese crew members to reach suborbital space.
Blue Origin said in a news release that NS-22 will lift off at 8:30 a.m. from Launch Site One at the company's site in West Texas on Thursday.
The flight will make Sara Sabry, an Egyptian mechanical a
Beijing (XNA) Jul 29, 2022
Unreasonable queries are being raised online ever since Wentian, the first lab module of China's space station, successfully docked with the core module, Tianhe, on Sunday.
On Quora, someone said that only the Chinese language is used on the spaceship and asked if the country is "super-sealed", and if they are getting rid of scientists from other countries by using a non-international lang