Is NASA still Moonbound, or will the next giant leap mean skipping straight to Mars?Speculation is mounting that the Trump administration may scale back or cancel NASA’s Artemis missions following the departure of a key official and Boeing’s plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on its lunar rocket.Late Wednesday, NASA abruptly announced the …
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Elon Musk, who has bragged of putting US federal agencies “into the woodchipper” as he slashes government spending, paraded a chainsaw on stage before American conservatives celebrating President Donald Trump’s return to power Thursday.Argentina’s President Javier Milei — who has used a chainsaw as a symbol of his own push to restore fiscal discipline — …
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Bolivian ex-president Evo Morales launched a fresh election bid Thursday ahead of polls in August, in defiance of a constitutional term limit and pending criminal charges.”We will win,” Morales told reporters in his political fiefdom of Cochabamba in central Bolivia in announcing his run.Morales, 65, claims to be the victim of a campaign to sideline …
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An Argentine appeals court has dismissed involuntary homicide charges against three people accused in the death of One Direction singer Liam Payne, who plunged from a third-floor hotel room in Buenos Aires last year, according to a ruling seen Thursday.Two others accused of supplying drugs to the former boy band star were remanded in custody …
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In a move that looks set to shake — and maybe even stir — one of Hollywood’s most bankable franchises, Amazon MGM Studio is to take creative control of James Bond, as the fictional British spy’s long-time producers step back.An agreement announced Thursday sees ownership of the rights to 007 shared between the movie behemoth …
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South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa opened on Thursday a Group of 20 foreign ministers meeting with a call for “cooperation” amid geopolitical tensions and “rising intolerance”.Top diplomats from the world’s largest economies gathered in Johannesburg for the two-day talks held for the first time in Africa and overshadowed by the absence of US Secretary of …
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President Donald Trump took a slap shot at Canada on Thursday, again suggesting a US takeover of the northern neighbor as a “fifty first state” and urging the US hockey team to prevail in a closely watched grudge match.Tensions have soared in the run-up to a tournament final in the US city of Boston following …
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A Sri Lankan passenger train derailed Thursday after smashing into a family of elephants, with no passengers injured but six animals killed in the island’s worst such wildlife accident, police said.The express train was travelling near a wildlife reserve at Habarana, some 180 kilometres (110 miles) east of the capital Colombo, when it hit the …
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Top diplomats from the Group of 20 major economies will convene in South Africa on Thursday for a meeting dominated by a packed global agenda but overshadowed by a snub by the top US envoy.As a curtain-raiser to the G20 summit in November, the foreign ministers will gather for talks over two days, held for …
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Ousted South Korean leader Yoon Suk Yeol’s lawyer on Thursday said his bid to impose martial law was aimed at thwarting a “legislative dictatorship” by the opposition-controlled parliament, as the president became the country’s first sitting head of state to stand trial in a criminal case.The 64-year-old former prosecutor has been behind bars since he was …
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