'What a perfect world': First private spacewalk a success
A billionaire and an engineer have become the first non-professional crew to perform one of the riskiest manoeuvres in space - a spacewalk.
Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis stepped out of the SpaceX spacecraft around 15 minutes apart, starting at 11:52BST, wearing specially-designed suits.
"Back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here Earth sure looks like a perfect world," Mr Isaacman said as he exited.
Aid not reaching Gaza, say relief groups as ‘more than a million go without food’
Medical supplies, toothbrushes and shampoo also remain stuck in backlog of lorries unable to enter from Egypt
Thu 12 Sep 2024 15.18 BST
Relief groups have said more than 1 million people in Gaza will not have enough food this month, while trucks loaded with fresh vegetables or meat spoil waiting to cross Israeli checkpoints, and thousands of aid packages of food, medical supplies and even toothbrushes and shampoo remain stuck in a backlog of lorries unable to enter from Egypt.
“We estimate that over a million Gazans will go without food in September,” said Sam Rose, a senior deputy director of UN’s relief agency for Palestinians (Unrwa), in Gaza. “Over half the medicines in our health centres are running low, as is chlorine for water purification and other basic supplies.”
He added that Unrwa had resorted to trying to import single items such as soap, because kits containing a range of items such as washing powder alongside it have been blocked from entering.
Should NATO shoot down Russian drones over western Ukraine?
Russian drones and missiles targeting Ukraine continue to violate NATO airspace, putting citizens in the Eastern regions of the alliance at risk. Experts propose possible NATO responses.
In the early hours of Sunday, September 8, two Romanian F-16 fighter jets took off from an air base in Borcea, a town near the Ukrainian border. Residents of the region were warned by text alerts.
The emergency response was triggered after Romania's radar surveillance system tracked a Russian drone entering Romania's airspace. The drone reportedly hovered there for over 30 minutes and ultimately headed back for Ukraine.
It was not the first incident of that kind in Romania or, for that matter, in NATO territory. Only a day before, a Russian drone dropped to the ground near the Latvian town of Rezekne, likely straying there from neighboring Belarus.
Alberto Fujimori, former Peruvian president convicted of crimes against humanity, dies at 86
Peru's Alberto Fujimori, a deeply divisive strongman who revamped Peru's economy, muzzled political opponents, and oversaw deadly atrocities, died on Wednesday after years of struggling with multiple health issues.
Fujimori, who died at the age of 86, was a one-time university dean who rose to wage a bloody campaign against insurgents as president in the 1990s -- but ended up jailed for atrocities.
He was loved by many for crushing the notorious left-wing Shining Path rebels but hated by others for the ruthless, authoritarian way he governed.
Fujimori's decade as president from 1990 was marked by a dramatic series of sieges, massacres and escapades.
Keidanren warns Yellen not to be ‘political tool’ in Nippon Steel deal
By HIROAKI KIMURA/ Staff Writer
September 12, 2024 at 15:44 JST
Japan’s largest business organization expressed concerns to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen about “political interference” swaying a U.S. government panel reviewing Nippon Steel Corp.’s acquisition of U.S. Steel.
Yellen chairs the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which reviews national security implications of foreign investments in the country.
“We fear that the CFIUS process is being used to further political agendas that are outside the committee’s purview and putting the U.S. economy and workers at risk,” Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) said in a letter sent on Sept. 11 to Yellen with other business groups.
Malaysian police rescue 400 children from care homes after sex abuse claims
Police say victims were the children of employees working for a business group allegedly in charge of the homes.
Malaysian authorities have rescued more than 400 children suspected of being sexually and physically abused at charity homes run by a prominent business group, police said.
Following coordinated raids on 20 premises across two states on Wednesday, police rescued 402 children and arrested 171 adults – including religious teachers and caretakers, according to Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain.
The homes were run by Global Ikhwan Services and Business (GISB), Razarudin said.
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