Five people have been killed and 130 others injured in Ukraine in a large-scale Russian attack on 2 January, with fires still being put out in the city of Kyiv. Source: press service of Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES) Quote: “A total of 5 people have been killed and 119 others injured in the attack […]
SpaceX closed out 2023 with a fiery double test of its next Starship megarocket booster and spacecraft on Friday (Sept. 29), sharing some stunning videos of both vehicles in the process. The dual test of engines on the giant Starship and Super Heavy rocket stages at SpaceX’s Starbase proving ground in Boca Chica, Texas on […]
Christmas Eve fires are blamed for seriously damaging three Long Island homes. No injuries were reported in Hicksville, Central Islip or Oceanside, where Newsday reports the blazes occurred. The first of the fires occurred around 5:20 p.m. Sunday, where smoke from a first floor bedroom got a homeowner’s attention. Less than an hour later, firefighters […]
The Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN, Serhiy Kyslytsia, responded on Twitter on Dec. 19 to a fake claim spread by the Russian delegation after he addressed the UN in Spanish. “‘Es que no estoy curada*…,’ says Lucía, the heroine of the film by the outstanding Spaniard, Pedro Almodóvar, ‘Women on the Verge of […]
BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration moved on Tuesday to conserve groves of old-growth trees on national forests across the U.S. as climate change amplifies the threats they face from wildfires, insects and disease. Agriculture Sec. Tom Vilsack said the agency was adopting an “ecologically-driven” approach to older forests — an arena where logging interests […]
data center infrastructure information technology At its recent AI event, Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) fired shots and claimed supremacy in AI inference above AI system pioneer and leader Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). AMD stock has been in rally mode as investors ratchet up their expectations in 2024 for the scrappy chip designer. Nvidia fired back, […]
North Korea has fired a second ballistic missile into the sea off the coast of South Korea, the South’s military said. Officials said in a statement that the launch was made on Monday morning without giving further details. The reported launch came hours after Seoul reported that North Korea had conducted a short-range ballistic missile […]
The head of the Army’s new independent office responsible for prosecuting major crimes, including sexual assault, was removed on Friday, Dec. 1, after a 2013 email surfaced in which he said, “the sexual assault ridiculousness continues.” After becoming aware of the 2013 email, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth removed Brigadier General Warren Wells, “based on a […]
QAWAWIS, West Bank — Jibreen Abu Aram was born on this rocky land to be a shepherd. He planted an olive grove, married and had nine children. He buried his brother here in 1966 after an Israeli tank round fell on their fields. But, he said, nothing in all his time in the West Bank has […]