SpaceX rocketship launches 4 astronauts on NASA mission to space station
The joint operation between NASA and Elon Musk’s company SpaceX successfully launched a team of astronauts into space to send to the International Space Station. The four-member crew is the…
Biden pledges to cut US emissions by 2030 at climate summit
President Joe Biden has opened a global climate summit with a pledge to cut at least in half the climate-wrecking coal and petroleum fumes that the United States pumps out,…
Derek Chauvin Found Guilty In Murder Of George Floyd
Derek Chauvin, the former officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds until he could no longer breathe, was found guilty of murder by a…
NGOs call for urgent aid as millions on brink of starvation
More than 250 NGOs have urgently called on international governments to increase aid and save more than 34 million people on the brink of starvation this year. In an open…
Biden’s virtual climate summit: Diplomacy sans human touch
There will be no hands to shake or backs to slap, no way to look a foreign leader in the eye. The small human moments that define statecraft will be…
Murder case against ex-cop in Floyd’s death goes to the jury
The murder case against former Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd went to the jury Monday April 19th 2021 in a city on edge against another round…
‘Huge’ explosion rocks St. Vincent as volcano keeps erupting
La Soufriere volcano fired an enormous amount of ash and hot gas early Monday in the biggest explosive eruption yet since volcanic activity began on the eastern Caribbean island of…
St. Vincent: Thick ash covers Caribbean island after volcanic eruption
The eruption of La Soufriere, after decades of inactivity, threw massive dark clouds of ash into the air. Thousands of people had to be evacuated. A thick layer of ash…
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, dies at age 99
Prince Philip died on Friday april 9th at the age of 99.Buckingham Palace did not give a cause when announced his death, but it followed a long history of health…
Conflict and COVID driving record hunger in DR Congo, warns UN
A record 27.3 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are facing acute hunger, one-third of the violence-wracked Central African country’s population, largely because of conflict and the…
