Florida: A private mission to the International Space Station (ISS) was successfully launched on Thursday with Turkey’s first astronaut on board, US space agency NASA said. A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule lifted off on top of a Falcon 9 rocket at 4.49 p.m. local time (21:49 GMT/UTC) from Cape Canaveral Space Centre in Florida. NASA said…
Washington, DC: The United States carried out new strikes against Houthi ballistic missiles in Yemen on Tuesday, according to the US Central Command. The US carried out strikes after Houthi launched an anti-ship ballistic missile from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen into international shipping lanes in the Southern Red Sea. The strikes on Tuesday, the third against…
Michigan: The mercury was plummeting across the US Midwest on Saturday as a biting winter storm left hundreds of thousands without power and threatened to disrupt the first key event in the 2024 presidential election campaign. Over a quarter of a million people in Michigan and Wisconsin were left without power as freezing temperatures spread across…
Washington: Houthi rebels on the Arabian Peninsula have been attacking cargo ships in the Red Sea since since Israel launched its military operation in Gaza Strip in October 2023. In a statement on Thursday evening, US President Joe Biden reported that there had been 27 attacks on ships to date. Numerous shipping companies have halted traffic…
Washington: US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin’s undisclosed hospitalisation and cancer diagnosis have triggered a congressional inquiry. President Joe Biden did not learn that his defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, had prostate cancer until Tuesday, the White House said. “Nobody at the White House knew that Secretary Austin had prostate cancer until this morning,” John Kirby, the National…
Washington, DC: The Houthis launched an unmanned surface drone in the Red Sea, targeting commercial shipping lanes. This marks the first instance of the Houthis using such a weapon since the onset of their attacks on merchant vessels in the wake of the Gaza war, as reported by CNN. The US Navy commander in the region…
Washington DC: Hours after the US helicopters sank three Houthi boats in the Red Sea, the White House issued a statement saying that it is not seeking a ‘wider conflict’ in the Middle East, CNN reported. Notably, the US helicopters sinking the Houthi boats and killing its crew, marked the first instance when the US killed…
Washington, DC: In a significant development, the highest-ranking US and Chinese military officials engaged in dialogue on Thursday, ending a year-long silence that had raised concerns within the Pentagon, CNN reported. General CQ Brown, Jr, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, initiated a video conference call with his Chinese counterpart, General Liu Zhenli of the…
New Hampshire: Coming out hard at US President Joe Biden over “economic woes” and border security, his predecessor Donald Trump said that the influx of migrants is “poisoning” the blood of the country, New York Post reported. Trump’s 90-minute speech focused heavily on America’s “economic woes” and its “dire border crisis,” which the former President pledged…
Tokyo: A US Osprey military aircraft with eight people on board crashed on Wednesday off the coast of Japan, the coastguard said. The aircraft has something of a troubled history, with several fatal crashes over the years. Officials had received an emergency call from a fishing boat near the crash site. It was not immediately clear…
