The state of Georgia has reported a record turnout on the first day of early voting in the United States elections, revealing a high level of engagement in the key battleground state. Hours after polls opened in the southern state on Tuesday, election officials reported that more than 251,000 voters…
As the war enters its 964th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Wednesday, October 16, 2024. Fighting Russia launched a drone attack on Kyiv, according to officials in the Ukrainian capital. There was no information immediately available about casualties or damage. Ukraine launched a series…
In a move to shore up its sagging finances, Boeing has announced plans to raise up to $25bn through stock and debt offerings and a $10bn credit agreement with major lenders amid a production and regulatory crisis. Boeing announced its plans on Tuesday. It was not clear when and how…
The deployment of an advanced United States anti-missile system to Israel, along with 100 troops to operate it, marks a significant escalation in US entanglement with a widening Israeli war that Washington has already heavily subsidised. But the deployment – in anticipation of an Iranian response to an expected Israeli…
He was 19-years-old, a software engineering student, and displaced from his home, trying to survive in central Gaza. He was a few days away from his 20th birthday. Shaban al-Dalou wouldn’t make it. He had struggled for months to get help for his family, recording videos describing his family’s plight…
In the sprawling slum of the once-glorious Grande Hotel in Mozambique’s Beira city, around 4,000 people living in squalor hope this month’s election will bring change. Most of the scattered election posters on the blackened walls of the gutted beachfront building call for votes for the long-ruling socialist Frelimo party…
The bears, part of China’s ‘panda diplomacy’, will stay in DC’s National Zoo under a 10-year agreement. China has sent two giant panda bears to the United States to be housed in Washington, DC’s Smithsonian National Zoo, in a rare diplomatic overture between the two countries. The three-year-old pandas –…
The air-taxi market is predicted to grow exponentially by the end of the decade, but experts have warned that its future depends on a well-planned network of vertiports that would need to be integrated into existing infrastructure and supported by advanced air traffic management systems. By 2029, the air-taxi market…
Curbs against Palestinian prisoner support network imposed amid mounting pressure since Israel’s Gaza war began. The United States has imposed sanctions against the Palestinian prisoner support network Samidoun, accusing the organisation of being a “sham charity” that raises funds for a blacklisted, left-wing Palestinian political faction. In a statement on…
In an escalation of the ongoing diplomatic row between India and Canada over what the latter describes as a “campaign of violence” against Sikh separatists on Canadian soil, Ottawa expelled Indian high commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma, alongside five other Indian diplomats on Monday. It is the latest development in a…
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