WASHINGTON: Since Donald Trump’s election to the White House, US media have highlighted the global issues the new president may prioritize during his early days in office and Pakistan has been notably absent from this discussion, while both opposition and government leaders in Pakistan are embroiled in a heated debate over whether Trump will pressure Islamabad to release Imran Khan and other political prisoners.
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Copenhagen (AFP) Nov 7, 2024
Some 500 wooden bricks were dropped into the waters of Lemvig in northwest Denmark on Thursday for a project aimed at mapping how rubbish moves about in the world's seas.
Hundreds of students, aged six to 19, lined up on a red carpet-lined jetty to ceremoniously throw the blocks of wood into the cold dark water.
In collaboration with other research initiatives around the North Sea, the i
Caracas (AFP) Nov 8, 2024
Venezuela and its most powerful ally Russia signed agreements Thursday on intelligence-gathering and counter-espionage as well as energy cooperation during a visit by a senior Kremlin official to Caracas.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko told Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez that his country stood ready to support Venezuela's armed forces with "the most sophisticate
Sao Paulo (AFP) Nov 9, 2024
Brazil plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions more dramatically than had been planned, the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has announced.
Instead of the earlier target of reducing emissions by 59 percent from 2005 levels by 2035, it will aim for a 67 percent reduction, the left-leaning government said Friday.
The shift is intended to align Brazil's emissions goal - called its "N
London (AFP) Nov 7, 2024
London landmarks including the UK parliament could be warmed by low-carbon heat powered by the River Thames, the London Underground train system and even the sewer network under new government plans.
Around 1,000 buildings could be in line to receive the alternatively sourced warmth.
Under the plans to develop the UK's biggest heat network to provide decarbonised heat, pipes designed to
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 8, 2024
The U.S. Department of Energy said Friday that 200 million barrels of oil have been bought and delivered for the strategic oil reserve.
The last purchase of 2.4 million barrels will arrive in the spring, putting 20 million more than the 180 barrels sold in 2022 back into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The final oil purchase is set to be delivered between April 1 and May 31. The
Beijing (AFP) Nov 8, 2024
China on Friday passed a new energy law to promote carbon neutrality, state media reported, as Beijing moves ahead with its pledge to decarbonise its economy by 2060.
China is the world's biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases scientists say drive global warming and climate change.
But it is also a global leader in clean energy - building almost twice as much wind and solar capacity as
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 8, 2024
Northeast Asian countries are bracing for changes that might follow as President-elect Donald Trump returns to office.
During his campaign, Trump pledged to upend what he described as unfair trade practices and decrease military involvement overseas.
Among his campaign promises, Trump said he would introduce blanket tariffs of 20% on all foreign imports and up to 60% or more on g
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 08, 2024
A recent study published in 'Communications Earth and Environment' reveals a significant increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from private aviation, with a 46% rise recorded between 2019 and 2023. This analysis underscores how the use of private jets by a small, affluent fraction of the population is contributing disproportionately to climate change, with some frequent private flyers produ
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 08, 2024
Robots have long been envisioned as the ideal helpers for repetitive or undesirable tasks, but the challenge of enabling robots to handle complex cleaning tasks, like thoroughly scrubbing a washbasin, is significant. Precise programming to maneuver a robotic arm to reach every part of a basin, especially when it has irregular shapes or requires variable pressure, is time-consuming and intricate.
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 09, 2024
Europe is making strides toward climate-neutral air travel with a focus on sustainably produced hydrogen as fuel. In support of this, the EU launched a project last year to aid industry and academia in the development of hydrogen-powered medium-haul aircraft, necessitating significant adaptations to existing jet engine designs, which are currently optimized for kerosene.
"Hydrogen burns mu
Paris (AFP) Nov 8, 2024
Climate change poses risks to banks on several levels: it can directly impact their finances, tarnish their image and land them in the courtroom.
Non-governmental organisations regularly criticise banks for the glacial speed at which they are moving to take climate change into account.
The latest was Reclaim Finance, which alongside several other NGOs took aim at European banks just day
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 05, 2024
When severe rains and high winds hit densely populated coastal areas, the impacts can be devastating, but early warnings provide crucial preparation time. These intense storms are often fueled by atmospheric rivers - bands of concentrated moisture traveling across the sky on strong winds. Although meteorologists closely monitor them, predicting the specific behavior of an atmospheric river has b
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 05, 2024
Imagining a vast ice sheet sprawling over Canada and extending down into what is now the northern United States, reaching as far south as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, helps us grasp the scope of ancient glacial coverage between 19,000 and 26,000 years ago.
Yet, while picturing this immense ice mass is fascinating, the present-day implications of its retreat - parti
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 09, 2024
China's advancements in satellite technology took another step forward as it successfully launched a new group of PIESAT-2 remote-sensing satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China on Saturday. The launch, executed at precisely 11:39 am Beijing Time, utilized the Long March 2C carrier rocket, a mainstay in China's space missions, to transport the satellites into orbit
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 05, 2024
MARSS, a leader in defense technology, played a prominent role in Red Sands 2024, showcasing its cutting-edge Counter UAS (CUAS) systems.
Organized by the US Army DEVCOM, ARCENT, and the Royal Saudi Air Forces, the Red Sands 24.2 exercise served as a rigorous test environment for the latest CUAS innovations addressing the surge in unmanned aerial system (UAS) threats. MARSS, a returning pa
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 08, 2024
Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace has secured a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to construct a microsatellite designed for the Arctic Ocean Surveillance (AOS) project. This mission, driven by the Norwegian Space Agency (NOSA), will provide maritime surveillance services to the Norwegian government, enhancing security and monitoring capabilities in Norway's surrounding Arctic waters.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 08, 2024
On Sept. 26, 2024, as Hurricane Helene struck Florida's Gulf Coast with powerful storm surges and severe impacts, NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) captured unprecedented data on the atmospheric disturbances it generated. Located about 55 miles above Earth, these disturbances, known as atmospheric gravity waves, were recorded as immense ripples through the upper atmosphere, offering valu
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 04, 2024
In a recent study led by Professor Xin Li and Dr. Yanlong Guo of the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, researchers analyze how scientific research is evolving through the power of big data and artificial intelligence (AI). The paper discusses how the traditional "correlation supersedes causation" model is being increasingly challenged by new "data-intensive scie
Buckley SFB (SPX) Nov 07, 2024
Buckley Space Force Base is home to one of the Defense Department's only two chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicles.
"You spend enough time around him and start to forget he's a QUGV," said U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Dominic Garcia, Installation Office of Emergency Management section chief. Garcia refers to this innovative QUGV, affectionately k
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 8, 2024
The three NASA astronauts that were part of the SpaceX Crew-8 aboard Crew Dragon Endeavour will speak publicly today for the first time since their mission returned to earth late last month.
Astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps will speak and take questions at a news conference at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, starting at 3:15 p.m. EST, the ag
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 10 (ANI): The highly anticipated trailer for the streaming series 'Freedom at Midnight' was released on Saturday, offering a powerful glimpse into the final moments of British colonial rule in India. Set to stream on Sony LIV from November 15, the series is a dramatized account of the tumultuous events surrounding India's struggle for independence and the chaotic partition that follo
Delhi and Mumbai were covered in dense smog this morning as the air quality worsened in the two metro cities.
New season, same struggling start. Akari triumphed in its opening game on Saturday, crushing Galeries Tower in four sets but not after catching coach Taka Minowa’s attention with the way the Chargers started the PVL All-Filipino Conference. “Since the last conference I handled Akari, it’s really a slow start, even today,” Minowa said after the
When Trump ran for president in early 2016, US equities were on shaky footing, posting their worst start to a year since the financial crisis with a drop of more than 5% in January. By the time of his inauguration, the S&P 500 was coming off a 9.5% gain in 2016 after ending 2015 in the red. The index was trading at 17 times projected earnings. The yield on 10-year Treasuries was around 2.5%, and the fed funds rate sat at 0.75%.