Did Zelenskyy order ethnic Russians to move from Ukraine to Russia?
On July 16, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov repeated invalid Kremlin talking points to justify Russian aggression against Ukraine. He accused Volodymyr Zelenskyy of racism and discrimination, and falsely claimed that ethnic Russians in Ukraine aligned with Russia. Source: voanews.com
NASA telescope spots super Jupiter that takes more than a century to go around its star
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — A super Jupiter has been spotted around a neighboring star by the Webb Space Telescope — and it has a super orbit. The planet is roughly the same diameter as Jupiter, but with six times the…
Young Ethiopian Space Program graduates aim for the skies
A group of young African students is shooting for the stars thanks to a program called ‘Pathways to Space.’ Aerospace company Boeing and a South African science organization backed an education program that just celebrated its first batch of graduates….
CrowdStrike blames bug for letting bad data slip through, leading to global tech outage
CrowdStrike is blaming a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers, setting off last week’s global tech outage that grounded flights, took TV broadcasts off air and disrupted…
Meta takes down thousands of Facebook accounts running sextortion scams from Nigeria
Meta says it has taken down about 63,000 Facebook accounts in Nigeria that were engaging in financial sextortion scams — along with groups and pages that were trying to organize, recruit and train new scammers. Sexual extortion, or sextortion, involves…
Ukrainian foreign minister in China for talks on future peace negotiations
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba held talks Wednesday with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, in the southern economic hub of Guangzhou. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Kuleba and Wang agreed that negotiations are necessary to end Russia’s two-and-a-half-year-old…
Progress in ending world hunger set back by global crises
Progress toward achieving a world free of hunger has stalled, while efforts to improve the nutritional status of billions of people have been setback 15 years as global crises deepen in some of the world’s poorest countries, according to a…
Gaza: Exodus from Khan Younis compounds pressure on meagre resources
According to the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, some 1.9 million people – nine in 10 in Gaza – have been forcibly uprooted since 7 October, including people who have been repeatedly displaced. For UN aid agencies and partners, “fuel shortages…
UNICEF chief calls for urgent security reset in Gaza amid ‘new horrors’
“Simply put – we do not have the necessary conditions in the Gaza Strip for a robust humanitarian response,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said in a statement issued in the wake of an attack on one of the agency’s vehicles and the latest…
US investigates Delta flight cancellations, response to global tech outage
U.S. regulators are investigating why Delta Air Lines failed to recover as quickly as other airlines from a global technology breakdown and whether Delta’s treatment of passengers stranded by canceled and delayed flights violated federal rules. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg…