People watch the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 second-generation Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, in Cocoa Beach, Florida, on Feb 27, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) WASHINGTON — Four crew members aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashed down off Florida's Gulf coast on Saturday, […]
Day: March 12, 2023
Pence: History will hold Donald Trump accountable for Jan 6
Former US vice-president Mike Pence gestures as he speaks during a Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada on Nov18, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) WASHINGTON – Former US vice-president Mike Pence said on Saturday that "history will hold Donald Trump accountable" for his role in the Jan 6, 2021, attack on the […]
Over 1,300 migrants brought ashore in Italy after multiple rescues
A fishing boat with some 500 migrants enters the southern Italian port of Crotone, March 11, 2023. (PHOTO / AP) ROME – More than 1,300 migrants have been rescued in three separate operations off the southern tip of Italy, the coastguard said on Saturday, two weeks after at least 74 people died when their boat hit rocks […]
Mutiny at the BBC: Lineker row causes mounting crisis
Gary Lineker, former England footballer turned sports TV presenter for the BBC, arrives at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, central England on March 11, 2023, ahead of the English Premier League football match between Leicester City and Chelsea. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON – Britain's BBC faced a mounting crisis as a row over football […]
French Senate votes for Macron’s pension plan despite protests
A protestor holds a banner reading "Let us defend our pensions" during a demonstration, as part of a nationwide day of strikes and protests called by unions over the proposed pensions overhaul, in Paris on March 11, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) PARIS – The French Senate on Saturday night adopted President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular pension […]