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Print 🖨 PDF 📄The Supreme Court ruled on Monday to keep former President Donald Trump on presidential primary ballots one day before dozens of states cast their votes in the biggest primary election of the 2024 cycle. The case, Trump v. Anderson, arose from the Colorado Supreme Court’s 4-3 decision to remove Trump from the…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄A spacecraft built in the UK has captured new images of Mercury as it made its sixth and final flyby ahead of entering the planet’s orbit in 2026. BepiColombo was built by the Stevenage-based company Astrium, now Airbus, and launched in 2018. The spacecraft comprises two satellites that will gather data for…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄Indian farm protesters burned Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and other officials in effigy on Friday as part of “Black Day” – basically a huge tractor rally with black flags fluttering from the farm equipment, intended to keep attention focused on the demonstrators as government troops block them from…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄Russia’s new Iranian-made drones put Ukraine “a bit more on the defensive,” one expert said. The Iranian-made drones that Russia has sent in swarms high over Ukraine’s battlefields are not particularly fast, running on an unsophisticated two-stroke engine akin to a lawnmower. They’re not going to sneak up on anyone, either: Russian…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄Decision seen to tighten ties to Beijing and strengthen Riyadh’s pivot east Saudi Arabia has agreed to join the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) as a “dialogue partner,” the kingdom’s state media announced. This decision is seen as strengthening Riyadh’s pivot east and tightening ties to Beijing. Regarded as a neutral actor in…
Print 🖨 PDF 📄Choice seen as rebuke to Israel and US; Israel denounces ‘grotesque weaponization of award, to legitimize anti-Israel hatred and prejudice’; committee chair hails Pillay’s work as ‘inspiration to those who seek more peaceful world’ OSLO, Norway — The South African-born jurist and former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay, who presided over…