Ed Clark oversaw the Renton factory where the Alaska Airlines plane involved in blowout was completed. The head of Boeing’s troubled 737 MAX programme has left the planemaker, according to a company memo, amid scrutiny around production and safety measures following a mid-air blowout on a plane last month. The …
Read More »A Missing Scottish Trophy Will Be Awarded Again After 95 Years
At a traditional Scottish Highland Games, fit athletes engage in rigorous pursuits like caber-tossing, hammer-throwing and stone-carrying. For decades, the best athletes in northern Scotland would compete in the Cabrach Games. And one of the legends of those games was Charles Taylor. He was judged the best-performing athlete of the …
Read More »Ondo Government declares 2-day public holiday in honour of Akeredolu's burial
The two-day holiday is for people of the state to honour the late former governor. The Ondo State Government has declared Thursday, February 22 and Friday, February 23 as public holidays in honour of the late former Gov Rotimi Akeredolu.
Read More »UN food agency halts aid to north Gaza, cites ‘complete chaos, violence’
The UN food agency pauses deliveries amid Israeli gunfire and a ‘collapse of civil order’ in northern Gaza. The United Nations food agency has paused delivering aid to northern Gaza, citing Israeli gunfire as well as “complete chaos and violence due to the collapse of civil order” in the area. …
Read More »Scientists Find Genetic Signature of Down Syndrome in Ancient Bones
Scientists have diagnosed Down syndrome from DNA in the ancient bones of seven infants, one as old as 5,500 years. Their method, published in the journal Nature Communications, may help researchers learn more about how prehistoric societies treated people with Down syndrome and other rare conditions. Down syndrome, which occurs …
Read More »Phasing out from Fossil Fuels: An Imperative for Climate Justice
Africa has huge renewable energy potential – it has 60% of the world’s best solar resources, but the continent receives less than 3% of global energy investment. Credit: Aimable Twahirwa/IPS Opinion by Sylvie Djacbou Deugoue (yaounde) Tuesday, February 20, 2024 Inter Press Service YAOUNDE, Feb 20 (IPS) – Climate change made …
Read More »Last Chance Saloon? Myanmar Junta Imposes Military Conscription
A Buddhist pagoda towers above a teeming thoroughfare in Mae Sot, a Thai town dense with tens of thousands of people fleeing conflict in nearby Myanmar. Credit: William Webb/IPS by William Webb (mae sot, thailand) Thursday, February 15, 2024 Inter Press Service MAE SOT, Thailand, Feb 15 (IPS) – The news …
Read More »Tinubu, governors meet today to provide solutions to food crisis in Nigeria
According to ThePunch, the president will have a closed-door meeting with the governors at 11:00 am before he leaves the country for Ethiopia for the African Union meeting. Confirming the meeting, a source in the presidency told the newspaper that “The President will meet all the governors tomorrow (today, Thursday) …
Read More »Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 723
As the war enters its 723rd day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Thursday, February 15, 2024. Fighting Ukraine said it critically damaged the Caesar Kunikov, a Russian landing warship, off occupied Crimea, in a drone attack, the latest blow to the Russian navy’s Black Sea …
Read More »Here’s How Mexicans Living Abroad Can Vote in This Year’s Election
Two women will face off for Mexico’s highest office in what is set to be a historic election this spring. Mexicans will choose their first female president on June 2, and they will also vote to renew all 500 deputies for the lower chamber of Congress and the 128 members …
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