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CNN  —  A former graduate student in Chicago was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday for spying for the Chinese government by gathering information on engineers and scientists in the United States. Ji Chaoqun, a Chinese national who came to the US to study electrical engineering at the Illinois …

Solar panels with a capacity to generate 30 kilowatts no longer work in the Darora Community of the Macuxi people, an indigenous group from Roraima, a state in the far north of Brazil. The batteries only worked for a month before they were damaged because they could not withstand the …

This comes after a recent development that caught the former Lagos State Governor throwing subtle jabs at President Muhammadu Buhari‘s government. Pulse reports that the APC Presidential candidate, while addressing the mammoth crowd of supporters at his campaign rally in Ogun State on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, alleged that the …

The representative for a teacher shot by a student says the incident could have been avoided if administrators had responded sooner. A lawyer representing a teacher shot by a six-year-old student in the United States has said that school administrators were warned three times that the child had a gun …

Ukrainian forces have retreated from the small town of Soledar following weeks of bitter fighting, a military spokesman said on Wednesday, acknowledging a military gain for Russian forces that brings them closer to encircling and possibly capturing the strategic eastern city of Bakhmut. Col. Sergei Cherevaty, the spokesman for Ukraine’s …

Tokyo CNN  —  Nine crew members remain missing after a cargo ship capsized off Japan’s Nagasaki prefecture on Wednesday, the Japan Coast Guard told CNN. The coast guard said it received a distress signal from the Hong Kong-flagged vessel Jin Tian late on Tuesday night as it cruised 110 kilometers …

Crypto giant Binance processed almost $346m in Bitcoin for the Bitzlato digital currency exchange, whose founder was arrested by United States authorities last week for allegedly running a “money laundering engine”, Reuters has reported citing blockchain data. The US Justice Department on January 18 said it charged Bitzlato’s co-founder and …

Yasmine Sherif pictured in Lebanon speaking to a young child at an ECW-supported facility. Credit: Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Opinion by Yasmine Sherif, Stephen Omollo (new york) Tuesday, January 24, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Jan 24 (IPS) – “Is it a sin to be a girl? We don’t want …

What you should know: The President, Muhammadu Buhari, is also the current Minister of Petroleum. Members of the committee: The committee, which will be chaired by Buhari, has the Minister of State for Petroleum Resource Chief Timipre Sylva as Alternate Chairman. Sylva, in a statement by his Senior Adviser (Media …

For three years, the nation’s most prominent environmental organization has been ruminating about its past and future. Like many other American institutions, the Sierra Club was convulsed by the 2020 murder of George Floyd, beset by painful questions about its mission and history, including whether its founder, John Muir, was …