A key regional summit opens on Sunday in Manila, with Southeast Asian heads of state facing questions on trade, security and an ongoing energy crisis while playing host to a who’s who of global leaders. US President Donald Trump is scheduled to arrive on Tuesday near the summit’s conclusion, a visit expected to include a […]
Read MoreDem US-Raumfahrtunternehmen SpaceX ist es zum ersten Mal gelungen, die Riesenrakete Starship bei ihrer Rückkehr zur Erde aufzufangen. Die obere Raketenstufe wurde am Samstag nach mehr als 22 Stunden im All an ihrer Startrampe am Weltraumbahnhof Starbase im US-Bundesstaat Texas wie geplant von Greifarmen in Empfang genommen. Es ist das erste Mal, dass ein solches […]
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Saturday carried out the first-ever recovery of a spaceship, pulling off a successful “catch” of its Starship vessel as it returned to its launch site after a day in orbit. The spaceship emerged from a cloudy sky after withstanding the extreme heat of re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere, and descended slowly over […]
Read MoreTens of thousands of protesters paraded in the streets of France on Saturday, some clambering up statues with French flags as they vented on issues ranging from the rising cost of living to a proposal to give police greater legal protection. The European Union’s second-largest economy has been gripped by high-school blockades and mass demonstrations […]
Read MoreIsrael’s caretaker prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday reiterated his calls for a national unity government with his opponent Gadi Eisenkot, who in turn dismissed the appeal as a ruse. The latest exchange comes as Eisenkot is in the midst of negotiations to form a government, after he was tapped for the post of premier […]
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Veraltete Hardware bei der Flugsicherung hat bis Samstag zur Streichung von mehr als 16.000 Flügen und Chaos an den Airports geführt. Nachdem alle Starts in den USA am Freitag stundenlang gestoppt worden waren und 12.000 Flüge gecancelt wurden, wurde der Verkehr am Abend (Ortszeit) wieder freigegeben. Trotzdem fielen auch am Samstag nach Angaben der US-Luftsicherheitsbehörde […]
Read MorePope Leo XIV warned Saturday that the heartland of the ancient Inca Empire was “suffering,” as the remote, poverty-stricken communities he served as a missionary in Peru shrink dramatically. The head of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics flew by helicopter to the isolated town of Santa Cruz de Succhabamba in the Andes mountains — an […]
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Italian regulators fined Facebook parent company Meta 805 million euros ($880 million) for accessing users’ photos without their “specific” consent, the country’s data protection authority said on Saturday. Through the Facebook application for Android devices, Meta accessed photographs, videos and related metadata belonging to Italian users “without obtaining specific consent and without properly informing them”, […]
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Weary travelers braced for more flight disruptions Saturday as service resumed at US airports after an hours-long stoppage that the Trump administration blamed on a botched replacement of old copper wire communication lines. Friday’s nationwide ground stop — meaning no planes can take off — sparked widespread chaos and left hundreds of thousands of passengers […]
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