NEW YORK CITY – Another series of quick-hitting storms in NYC is expected to bring more snow across parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. JUMP TO: THURSDAY TIMELINE l SATURDAY TIMELINE l TUESDAY SNOW TOTALS l WINTER FORECAST The new chance for winter weather comes fresh off the heels of Tuesday’s event that […]
Ukraine expects to produce thousands of long-range drones capable of striking deep into Russian territory by the end of the year, Ukraine’s Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said in an interview with Reuters on Feb. 12. According to Fedorov, Ukraine already has up to 10 companies manufacturing drones capable of reaching Moscow and St. Petersburg. […]
Ukraine will produce more than a million drones this year, its digital transformation minister said. Ukraine produced 50 times more drones in December 2023 than it did in the whole of 2022, he told Diia. State funding is set to increase about tenfold, Mykhailo Fedorov told Reuters. Ukraine will produce more than a million drones this […]
Feb. 5—A new program launched Monday in Yuba-Sutter that is expected to not only bring fresh and locally grown food to more residents in the area, but also help support small- to mid-sized farmers in the region. Called Farms Together, the program is intended to “support food banks and community distributors in purchasing and distributing […]
Ukraine is set to manufacture over one million drones in 2024 through the Drone Army initiative, Digital Ministry reported in a comment to LIGA.net on Feb. 5. Read also: Ukrainian Armed Forces developing digital recruitment project for drone operators The Digital Ministry predicts drone market growth and emphasizes the necessity for more funding. It deems […]
Fruits and vegetables are now being sold at 5,000 Dollar General stores. The discount store reached its produce target in January 2024, a move that they said will benefit the small communities Dollar General reaches. “Approximately 80% of Dollar General stores serve communities of 20,000 or fewer people, and residents in these communities often rely […]
The European Commission announced on Wednesday it is planning to extend the lifting of quotas and tariffs on Ukrainian exports to the European Union until June 2025. The move renews a past suspension set to expire in June 2024 but with the addition of certain emergency measures, after a controversy surrounding exports of grain and […]
Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin, who has donated more than $500 million to Harvard University over the years, has halted contributions to his alma mater and claimed elite schools produce “whiny snowflakes.” Griffin, one of the richest people in the world, joins a growing list of donors to Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and […]
The U.S. failed in two days of talks to prod China into pressuring Iran to stop Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, an administration official said Saturday. National security adviser Jake Sullivan raised U.S. concerns about the ongoing attacks in the meetings with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Bangkok, Thailand, on […]
Ukraine and Lithuania discussed the joint production of drones during talks between Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said at a joint press conference in Kiev on Saturday. Much of their talks centred on this area, he said, though they also discussed Ukraine’s path to NATO membership, further military aid […]
Martin Herem, Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces, has said that new intelligence on Russia’s ability to produce munitions and recruit people into the army has prompted NATO allies to reassess and issue a series of warnings about the need to prepare for a long-term conflict. Source: Bloomberg, as reported by European Pravda Details: Herem […]
The European Union will be able to produce around 1.3 to 1.4 million shells by the end of 2024, and will continue to increase production “significantly” next year, said EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton. “We need to make sure that most of this is coming to Ukraine, in priority, because this is where there […]