More deep-sea search equipment joins hunt for Titan
'Snag shouldn't set us back' - Magellan CEO
We have some more news about the efforts to send a deepwater survey craft from Jersey to the Atlantic search zone.
As we've been reporting, an attempt to fly out another remotely operated vehicle (ROV) has hit a snag.
The ROV - called Juliet - is owned by Guernsey-based firm Magellan and was loaded late this morning onto a US military aircraft at Jersey Airport.
But the company's chief executive Richard Parkinson confirmed there was "a glitch in getting onboard", where it didn't entirely fit in the aircraft's cargo space.
The ROV has been taken off and will be loaded onto a new plane in the coming hours, according to Parkinson.
"It shouldn't set us back," he added.
India secretly works to preserve reputation after ‘flawed democracy’ rating
Exclusive: Democracy Index downgrades country amid backsliding under nationalist rule of Narendra Modi
The Indian government has been secretly working to keep its reputation as the “world’s largest democracy” alive after being called out by researchers for serious democratic backsliding under the nationalist rule of Narendra Modi, according to internal reports seen by the Guardian.
Despite publicly dismissing several global rankings that suggest the country is on a dangerous downward trajectory, officials from government ministries have been quietly assigned to monitor India’s performance, minutes from meetings show.
News of the meetings comes as Modi makes a state visit to the US to hold talks with President Joe Biden and speak to Congress.
Turkey's central bank hikes interest rates sharply
Turkey has increased its base interest rates by a whopping 6.5%, the clearest indication yet that the unconventional economic policy dubbed "Erdonomics" might be history now in Recep Tayyip Erdogan's new government.
Turkey's central bank delivered a large 6.5% interest rate rise on Thursday, boosting the rates it charges commercial lenders for borrowing money to 15% from 8.5%.
It's the first time Turkey has raised its rates since March 2021 — indeed the country had been raising eyebrows by cutting its rates even as inflation spiraled out of control as of late.
"Monetary tightening will be further strengthened as much as needed in a timely and gradual manner until a significant improvement in the inflation outlook is achieved," the central bank said.
The bank also promised to "simplify and improve" policies that past governments under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used to try and weather Turkey's worst economic crisis since the 1990s. Analysts anticipate that the rate is likely to reach a level around 25% by the end of the year — roughly where it was as recently as 2019.
57,000-year-old Neanderthal engravings found in France's Loire Valley
The oldest known cave engravings in France, and possibly Europe, have been discovered in the Loire Valley, with researchers uncovering designs dating back at least 57,000 years to the age of Neanderthals.
According to the findings, reported Wednesday in the American journal PLOS One, the engravings, also called finger-flutings, predate the arrival of Homo sapiens to Western Europe.
The designs are abstract but are "clearly intentional" and "make a new and very important contribution to our knowledge of Neanderthal behaviour," the research team wrote.
"The layout of these non-figurative graphic entities is an organised, deliberate composition, and is the result of a thought process giving rise to conscious design and intent."
Syrians lose hope for loved ones after Greece boat tragedy
Al Jazeera speaks to the relatives of three Syrian fathers assumed dead after an overloaded fishing trawler sank off Greece.
A week after an overloaded boat carrying hundreds of refugees and migrants sank off the western coast of Greece, details of those feared dead are emerging.
Most of those on board – estimates range from 400 to 750 – were Pakistanis. Dozens of Egyptians, Syrians and Palestinians also risked their lives for an opportunity to reach Europe on the fishing trawler that departed from Libya.
Among the Syrians still missing is a father who was desperately seeking cancer treatment for his son, Al Jazeera has learned.
Early stages of Ukrainian counteroffensive ‘not meeting expectations,’ Western officials tell CNN
In its early phases, Ukraine’s counteroffensive is having less success and Russian forces are showing more competence than western assessments expected, two western officials and a senior US military official tell CNN.
The counteroffensive is “not meeting expectations on any front,” one of the officials said.
According to the Western assessments, Russian lines of defense have been proving well-fortified, making it difficult for Ukrainian forces to breach them. In addition, Russian forces have had success bogging down Ukrainian armor with missile attacks and mines and have been deploying air power more effectively.
Ukrainian forces are proving “vulnerable” to minefields and Russian forces “competent” in their defense, one of the Western officials said.
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