A recovery mission to save NASA’s Swift Observatory telescope was launched Friday, with the three-armed spacecraft successfully reentering orbit from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Swift telescope satellite weighs 1.6 tons (1.4 metric tons) and is orbiting 224 miles (360 kilometers) above Earth. US defense contractor Northrop Grumman launched Catalyst Space Technologies’ … Read more
The round of 16 World Cup match between England and Mexico could be moved forward to noon local time on Sunday due to a risk of storms and flooding near Mexico City’s Aztecaon stadium, local media reported. Fifa has yet to confirm the time change. Source link
Three people were identified on Friday in the 2019 murder of Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee. McKee, 29, died while reporting on a clash between police and the Irish Republican Army splinter group the New IRA. These clashes took place in Londonderry, also known as Derry. The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland and political … Read more
Iranian officials and international dignitaries paid their respects to Iran’s former leader Ali Khamenei on Friday as he lay in state in Tehran. Meanwhile mourners gathered outside the vast Grand Mosalla religious complex where his casket is on display, ahead of its opening to the public on Saturday morning. Source link
Gavin Lee is pleased to welcome Jan Pospisil, Sudan Affairs Analyst at the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform. He says the siege has been going on for almost a year, and the RSF seems committed to seizing el-Obeid. While Pospisil explains that Sudan’s civil war is not a proxy war in the literal sense, … Read more
From intensifying drone warfare between Ukraine and Russia to mounting fears of a humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan, anti-immigration protests in South Africa and a landmark ruling by the US Supreme Court, this week has been shaped by conflicts over power, identity and international law. Source link
plotting a murder in a potato shed; Tens of thousands of euros were handed over in a brown envelope. The trial of Yorgen Fenech, the 44-year-old heir to a Maltese property empire, is filled with details of how the car-bomb murder of anti-corruption journalist Caruana Galizia was conceived and carried out. The start of proceedings … Read more
NATO members are expected to pledge €70 billion ($80 billion) of military aid to Ukraine for 2026 and “at least an equivalent level” of support in 2027 when they meet at an upcoming summit in Turkey on July 6 and 7. The funding pledge was disclosed in the released text of the summit declaration, which … Read more
The UN on Friday warned that a “human rights catastrophe” was unfolding in Sudan’s El-Obeid where experts have warned the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) may be about to stage an offensive. Civilians in the city have already been subjected to “siege-like conditions” for the past 18 months, UN rights chief Volker Turk said. Source link
Tens of millions of people suffered and thousands died during a historic heatwave in France. As the temperatures rose while the days stretched on, media attention invariably turned to air conditioning, a rare technology in France. In this edition of FRANCE 24’s media show “Scoop”, we look at media coverage of the brutal heat and … Read more