US says it wants the jailed British-Egyptian activist, who is hunger and water strike, freed.The White House has expressed “deep concern” for jailed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who is on a hunger strike and has begun refusing water to coincide with the COP27 climate summit. “We have been in high-level communication with the Egyptian government on this case, we have deep concern about it, we would like to see him freed,” US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters in Washington, DC on Thursday. Senior United States officials said on Tuesday that President Joe Biden will raise the issue…
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The LOFTID heat shield after its ocean recovery. Image: NASAAfter launching an inflatable heat shield experiment to space on Thursday, NASA has now recovered the device after its splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The space agency is seeking to learn whether this kind of heat shield can protect precious payloads from the high temperatures of atmospheric reentry. 03:26Segment of Challenger Space Shuttle Found at Bottom of Atlantic Ocean40 minutes agoNASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) took off onboard an Atlas 5 rocket at 4:49 a.m. ET on Thursday from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.…
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Most people in the West may recognise Narendra Modi but might have no idea who the Prime Minister of India is, says Australian sociologist and academic Salvatore Babones. “I have heard prominent Australians in the international affairs world calling him ‘President Modi’,” he told Firstpost. It is this low-information milieu that worries him. “In a low-information society, a minuscule but deeply institutionalised voice sets the narrative for the entire society. Unfortunately, this voice in the West is inherently anti-India,” he said. Right now this narrative is confined to academia and journalism, said Babones. “But then in a low-information environment, as…
There’s a very real chance the planet will warm up an average of 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) this century — and that would be disastrous.In such a brutally hot world, scientists agree, deadly heat waves, massive wildfires, and damaging downpours will come far more often and hit much harder than they do today. The ocean will be hotter too and more acidic, causing fish declines and likely the end of coral reefs. In fact, a quarter or so of the Earth’s species may go extinct in such conditions or be headed that way. Our coastlines would be reshaped,…
But an altercation that followed the event exemplified the resistance human rights activists face: According to a Washington Post report, Egyptian lawmaker Amr Darwish stood up and yelled at Seif. “You are here summoning foreign countries to pressure Egypt.” He continued berating her until UN security escorted him out, the paper reported.Activist organizations in Egypt have to deal with limited funding, harassment, and onerous conditions for organizing peaceful demonstrations and press conferences. Some fear for their lives and are essentially forced into exile. A small gathering of a group of people is enough to draw the suspicion of security forces,…
Player of the match Andrew Higgins scored four tries as Wales booked their place in the semi-finals of the Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup with victory over Scotland; they now face England in the last four in Sheffield on Sunday; Earlier in the day, France ended USA’s hopes of qualifying Last Updated: 10/11/22 4:30pm Andrew Higgins scored for tries as Wales beat Scotland to qualify for the wheelchair World Cup semi-finals Wales will face England in the semi-finals of the Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup after they qualified with a comfortable 70-36 victory over Scotland. Wales looked the most likely…
HCL Foundation, a CSR arm of HCL Technologies Ltd, on Thursday said it spent Rs 216 crore during the 2021-22 fiscal on several initiatives across urban and rural development besides environmental action, up by 10.76 per cent from over the year. About Rs 195 crore was the CSR investment made during the 2020-21 financial year. “HCL Foundation and its partners worked tirelessly with communities to multiply our programme reach by over 12 times since 2016. Our projects are aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals… We remain committed to the long road ahead,” said HCL Technologies CEO…
Ramallah, Occupied West Bank – Black and white images of pre-1948 Jaffa, the enchanting coastal city referred to by Palestinians as the “bride of the sea”, shifted slowly across the large screen of the Qattan cultural centre in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. With archival photos from 1930 to 1948, as well as a rich sound design and a video testimony of a charismatic elderly man whose family was expelled from Jaffa, director Rashid Masharawi took viewers on an absorbing historical journey that brought Palestinian Jaffa to life. It was one of nearly 60 local and international films screened…
Some of you will have a natural knack for gift buying — an innate ability to know what to buy for whom, and exactly where to get it, No matter what the occasion is or which family member or friend they’re buying for, you somehow nail their gift selections year after year, cementing your status as favourite aunt/co-worker/second-cousin-twice-removed.On the other end of the spectrum, we all know that one misguided friend or family member who gifts the same pair of socks for every special occasion without fail. Their go-to presents are boring at best, cringe-worthy at worst, and almost always…