Dem 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 […]
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 […]
Read MoreWashington suggested Kyiv cede land to Moscow in exchange for joining NATO, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in comments released Saturday, saying his country’s relationship with the Western alliance is “back on the agenda.” Zelensky also warned of the dangers of Moscow’s push to redraw “influence” in Europe and said the Kremlin was “betting everything” on this […]
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 […]
Read MoreTrump administration officials were left red-faced Saturday when their public effort to address the massive tech disruption that grounded thousands of US flights was itself hit with embarrassing technical glitches. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy took the podium and began addressing a much-anticipated and televised press conference a day after a disastrous nationwide ground stop […]
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