NASA, SpaceX step down from cargo resupply mission, to announce new date soon

NASA, SpaceX step down from cargo resupply mission, to announce new date soon

In a major development, NASA and SpaceX have decided to step down from the Falcon 9 launch of the CRS-25 cargo mission in to the International Space Station, that was supposed to lift on June 10 from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. While, Space X commercial supply mission is to carry’a NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust … Read more

West Nile fever to Tomato flu in Kerala to Hepatitis A outbreak in America: Top health woes in news across world

West Nile fever to Tomato flu in Kerala to Hepatitis A outbreak in America: Top health woes in news across world

Even as the world battles with the coronavirus pandemic and the sister variants of Omicron, some regions around the globe are seeing fresh outbreaks of new diseases that have put the health experts on alert. While these infections are relatively much local in terms of scale, the already-battered health infrastructure maybe strained in case the … Read more

Russia ranks ‘unfriendly’ nations; US tops chart

Russia ranks ‘unfriendly’ nations; US tops chart

Russian State Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin has published on social media a list of “unfriendly nations” ranked by the number of anti-Russian sanctions they have imposed. “They are the ones to be blamed for skyrocketing prices worldwide,” his post read on Thursday, RT reported. The list is headed by the US, with 1,983 distinct sanctions … Read more

Accused Colombian drug lord Dairo Usuga ‘Otoniel’ extradited to the US, source says

Accused Colombian drug lord Dairo Usuga ‘Otoniel’ extradited to the US, source says

Usuga is widely considered to be the boss of the “Clan del Golfo,” a powerful drug cartel that controls cocaine routes into Mexico and the United States. He was expected to appear before a US judge in the next few hours. He faces multiple drug-trafficking charges in New York and Florida district courts. The State … Read more

US continuing to review Trump-era tariffs on China

US continuing to review Trump-era tariffs on China

The United States is continuing to look at the tariffs on China introduced by the Trump administration, White House Press on Thursday. “There is an ongoing review of that,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a press briefing when asked to what extent the administration is looking at cutting tariffs on Chinese goods … Read more

Americans have rushed to rescue Ukrainian orphans. One mission led to a child trafficking probe

Americans have rushed to rescue Ukrainian orphans. One mission led to a child trafficking probe

The 9-year-old boy who Scooter Brown and his wife, Vicki, had started the process of adopting was among those hiding in the basement of an orphanage in central Ukraine as three Russian missiles soared overhead and slammed into a Ukrainian military base about 60 miles away. After that episode, the Browns took matters into their … Read more

Sri Lankan delegation heads to US to seek $4 bn bailout package from IMF

Sri Lankan delegation heads to US to seek $4 bn bailout package from IMF

A Sri Lankan government delegation is headed to the US on Sunday to engage with the IMF to secure a USD 4 billion package as it desperately tries to salvage the country’s beleaguered economy currently reeling under a severe forex crisis. The delegation led by newly-appointed finance minister Ali Sabry will hold talks with the … Read more

Kremlin-connected children grew up in the very countries whose societies their parents claim to reject

Kremlin-connected children grew up in the very countries whose societies their parents claim to reject

Their parents own prime real estate on the most exclusive avenues of Europe’s capitals. Their social media profiles are filled with designer dresses and red-carpet events. One young woman posted photos of her 22nd birthday, poolside at the Adriatic Sea villa of one of Putin’s oligarchs. Meet the kids of the Kremlin. While their parents … Read more

Mexican truck drivers block major US-Mexico point of entry in protest of Texas border inspections

Mexican truck drivers block major US-Mexico point of entry in protest of Texas border inspections

The protest at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge follows a move by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office to enhance safety inspections at state border ports in response to Biden administration plans to end pandemic-related restrictions at the border. Major trade groups see the border inspections by Texas as redundant, they’ve said. The mayor of Reynosa, Mexico, … Read more

US cautions its citizens against travelling to Sri Lanka

US cautions its citizens against travelling to Sri Lanka

The United States has advised its citizens against travelling to Sri Lanka, pointing to the fuel and medicine shortages, as well as the COVID-19 and terror threats in the Island nation where the worst-ever economic crisis has triggered political unrest. Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since gaining independence from the UK in … Read more