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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, United States, April 25, 2024 (AFP) – Two US astronauts arrived Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ahead of their launch aboard the Boeing Starliner’s first crewed mission next month. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will blast off on the years-delayed flight on May 6 for a weeklong stay on the International Space Station (ISS). “We’re about to launch on Boeing Starliner and broaden the capability to and from Space […]
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – Malaysia’s Tony Fernandes, one of Asia’s most prominent entrepreneurs, has decided to extend his contract as chief executive of Capital A, the firm said Wednesday, after the board persuaded him to delay his planned retirement. Fernandes, 59, a pioneer of Southeast Asia’s budget carrier sector who is often compared to British tycoon Richard Branson, said in January that he intended to step aside within the next five years after more than […]
By Romain FONSEGRIVES with Moises Avila in Austin LOS ANGELES, April 26, 2024 (AFP) – Pro-Palestinian protests spread to more college campuses in the United States on Thursday as authorities appeared to be running out of patience and police began to push back forcefully. Riot officers used chemical irritants and tasers at one university as administrators at some of the country’s most prestigious institutions battled to prevent occupations taking hold. Staging sit-ins and mounting boisterous […]
By Glenn CHAPMAN Microsoft and Google on Thursday drubbed quarterly earnings expectations as the tech titans continued investing heavily in artificial intelligence promising to shake up the way people live. The results were cheered by Wall Street investors who pushed up Alphabet’s share price more than 11 percent and Microsoft shares up nearly 4 percent in after-market trades. Google parent Alphabet reported profit of $23.7 billion on revenue of $80.5 billion, crediting growth in cloud […]
GUATEMALA CITY, April 26, 2024 (AFP) – Guatemalan authorities on Thursday raided the offices of the international organization Save the Children in what the prosecutor’s office said was part of an investigation into alleged abuses against minors. A spokesperson for Save the Children confirmed that officials had entered its offices in Guatemala City, but declined to give more details. The operation was the result of “a transnational investigation of great significance, since it concerns actions […]
(Eagle News)–The Luzon and Visayas grids will be on yellow alert on Friday, April 26, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines said. The NGCP said the alert over Luzon, in particular, will be in place from 1 to 4 p.m. and from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Four plants have been on forced outage since 2023, four between January and March 2024, and 14 since April 2024, while two others are running on derated […]
PATNA, India, April 25, 2024 (AFP) – At least six people were killed in a fire that ripped through a hotel in eastern India on Thursday, police said, with rescue teams still searching the wreckage for survivors. The fire broke out at the Pal Hotel in Patna, the capital of Bihar state, and soon spread to adjacent buildings before it was extinguished. “So far six people have been killed,” a police officer told AFP on […]
By Beiyi SEOW WASHINGTON, April 25, 2024 (AFP) – The US economy cooled markedly in the first three months this year, expanding less than anticipated as consumer spending and exports decelerated, according to government data released on Thursday. The world’s biggest economy grew 1.6 percent in the first quarter, the Commerce Department said, missing analysts’ expectations of a larger 2.4 percent rise. This was also a clear slowdown from the 3.4 percent increase seen in […]
DAR ES SALAAM, April 25, 2024 (AFP) – At least 155 people have died in Tanzania as torrential rains linked to El Nino triggered flooding and landslides, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said Thursday. Tanzania and other countries in East Africa — a region highly vulnerable to climate change — have been pounded by heavier than usual rainfall during the current rainy season, with dozens of deaths also reported in Kenya. Majaliwa said more than 51,000 […]
WASHINGTON, April 25, 2024 (AFP) – The leaders of the United States, Britain, France and more than a dozen other countries called in a joint statement Thursday for Hamas to release the scores of hostages it is holding. Hamas seized the hostages during a shock October 7 attack that sparked the deadliest ever war between it and Israel, which has vowed to eleminate the Palestinian militant group. “We call for the immediate release of all […]
By Shrouq TARIQ ISLAMABAD, April 25, 2024 (AFP) – Before it was forced to close over its “intolerable” treatment of animals, the Islamabad Zoo was home to neglected elephants and underfed lions pacing back and forth behind the bars of their enclosures. Now, four years later, it is a rehabilitation centre for Pakistani wildlife, providing a refuge for motherless leopard cubs, tigers seized from owners who kept them as status symbols, and bears forced to […]
SYDNEY, Australia, April 25, 2024 (AFP) – Marine biologists raced Thursday to save more than 100 pilot whales after a mass stranding on an Australian beach, with officials fearing many will have to be euthanised. Western Australia’s Parks and Wildlife Service said 26 of the beached pilot whales had already died. As many as 160 pilot whales became stranded Thursday morning at Toby’s Inlet, officials said, located about three hours’ drive south of state capital […]
