27/07/2024 |
SpaceX, NASA to launch Crew-9 mission next monthSpaceX and NASA said on Friday they plan to launch the space agency's Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than Aug. 18.
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France's Macron declares Paris 2024 Olympics openFrench President Emmanuel Macron declared the 2024 Paris Olympic Games open on Friday during a rain-soaked ceremony in the French capital.
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US, Brazil to work together on climate partnership, says YellenThe U.S. and Brazilian governments announced a climate partnership agenda on Friday, seeking to deepen ties on an issue they seen as key but treated as secondary by opposition in both countries.
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25/07/2024 |
NATO finds gaping holes in Europe's defencesThe war in Ukraine and the looming U.S. presidential election dominated a NATO summit in Washington this month but, away from the public stage, the alliance's military planners have been focused on assessing the enormous cost of fixing Europe's creaking defences.
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Typhoon Gaemi strengthens as it nears Taiwan, two dead, work haltedTaiwan hunkered down on Wednesday for the arrival of a strengthening Typhoon Gaemi, with financial markets shut, flights cancelled and two people killed, while the military went on stand-by amid torrential rain.
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Australia platypus conservation centre, world's largest, welcomes first residentsThe world's largest platypus conservation centre has welcomed its first residents as part of a project to protect the semi-aquatic mammal found only in Australia amid threats to its habitat from extreme weather and humans.
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24/07/2024 |
Bangladesh accepts court ruling to cut state job quotas after unrest, eases curfewThe Bangladesh government said on Tuesday it would heed a Supreme Court ruling that 93% of state jobs be open to competition, meeting a key demand of students after a week of some of the country's deadliest protests in years.
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Macron will look to form new government in mid-August, after OlympicsFrench President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday his outgoing government will remain focused on the Olympic games in a caretaker role until mid-August, after which he will look to appoint a new prime minister.
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World recorded hottest day on July 21, monitor saysSunday, July 21 was the hottest day ever recorded, according to preliminary data from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, which has tracked such global weather patterns since 1940.
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23/07/2024 |
Residents of eastern Canadian community menaced by wildfire can return homeThousands of people ordered from their homes in the face of a raging wildfire in a remote corner of eastern Canada can return home this week as the risk to their community diminished, authorities said over the weekend.
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