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Freedom restricted
Jamaica Observer
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May 16, 2025
Vybz Kartel is set to perform at an event in Trinidad and Tobago on May 31. Despite having his murder conviction overturned last year, Vybz Kartel’s controversial past is still cause for concern for some. This after Trinidad and Tobago Defence...
Architects Analyse Redevelopment Potential At The “Asunción 500 Years” Forum
The Asunción Times
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March 29, 2025
The “Asunción 500 Years” Forum brought together architects from more than 30 countries to discuss architecture, urban planning, and construction, with a view to optimising redevelopment of Paraguay’s iconic capital city. The Asunción 500 Years...
Singapore spaceport: Did you know the nation is ideal for space travel?
The Straits Times
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May 9, 2025
Could there be a spaceport in Singapore some day, launching both satellites and humans into space? In late 2024, an executive at space-tourism company Virgin Galactic, Mr Mike Moses, told The Straits Times it could envision building spaceports in...
German startup Isar Aerospace cancels test flight of its 95 feet Spectrum rocket amid weather issues
The Times of India
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Source: isaraerospace.com Isar Aerospace is a pioneering company that aims to revolutionise the space launch industry. Its Spectrum rocket, powered by liquid oxygen and propane offers a low-environmental impact, performance-efficient solution....
Europe’s Failed Mission to Space
Foreign Policy
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May 5, 2025
On March 30, a German start-up launched a rocket designed to place small satellites into orbit from Europe. Taking off from Norway’s Andøya spaceport above the Arctic Circle, it was the first-ever attempt to reach orbit from anywhere in Europe...
Dreaming as internationalist materialists
International Viewpoint
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We will begin with a statement: yes, we dream, and we desire! We dream of emancipation, and we desire equality (individual, collective, between peoples). And we are on the left, a radical and revolutionary left at that. What should be troubling us...
Apply for EU’s 2025 Jumpstarter programme for innovators by April 2
Balkan Green Energy News
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March 21, 2025
EIT Jumpstarter offers a seven-month pre-acceleration programme for early-stage innovators. Participants can compete to win EUR 2,500, EUR 5,000, or EUR 10,000 across eight categories. They are Food & Agritech, Healthcare, Advanced and Green...
Hallucinations and 3hrs sleep a day on 21-year-old’s record Atlantic voyage
The Times
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Zara Lachlan was not at her brightest when she decided to row from Portugal to French Guiana. Two weeks before the plan settled conclusively in her mind, she was the passenger in an old BMW when the driver lost control and collided with a stone...
The 10 Exhibitions to See in May 2025
ArtReview
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Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from the Venice Architecture Biennale to Gallery Weekends in Berlin and Beijing The Gaggiandre, Venice. Photo by Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia 19th Venice...
SMILE: A new European-Chinese satellite to be launched this year
CGTN
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May 9, 2025
01:49 A new satellite will be launched this year, to study charged particles emitted by the sun - known as the solar wind. It is the first full space partnership between China and the European Space Agency, and will investigate how the solar wind...
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Electronics Weekly
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May 2, 2025
Taking them in reverse order, according to Google Analytics… 5. Biomass satellite mapping Earth’s forests in 3D with P-band SAR data Biomass, a flagship satellite developed in the UK for the ESA, is set to become the first in the world to measure,...
Airbus Delivers First Two New H225M Caracal Helicopters to French Air Force
The Aviationist
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January 23, 2025
The two H225Ms are the first of eight helicopters ordered in 2021 and will replace Pumas currently in service with French detachments in French Guiana, Djibouti and New Caledonia. Airbus Helicopters announced on Jan. 17, 2025 the delivery to the...
Rocket launches: the new frontier of space colonization, monetization | Ron Colone
Santa Maria Times - California
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It’s like making popcorn. First, it’s just one little kernel that pops, then a couple more, and pretty soon, it’s rapid machine gunfire — pop pop pop pop pop pop! That’s how it is with space flights right now. Last week, six different rockets were...
Anopheles larval control deserves a greater priority: lessons in malaria elimination from China
British Medical Journal
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Xinyue Fang, researcher1, Liping Yang, associate professor2, Dongsheng Ren, professor1, Simon I Hay, professor3, Haoqiang Ji, masters student1 2, Yelin Sun, postdoctoral researcher1, Chunchun Zhao, assistant professor1, Qiyong Liu, professor1 2...
Space 2025: Why a U.S. moonbase penal colony would be a natural step for forced deportation after Alcatraz
The Milwaukee Independent
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May 6, 2025
Donald Trump has not proposed building a prison on the moon, yet. But the idea of launching his enemies into orbit, exiling criminals to a cold crater, and vanishing dissenters into the silent void fits seamlessly into Trump’s political behavior....
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, February 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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April 3, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
P&O Cruises Crew Members Are "Extremely Apologetic" Over Snow Cone Wardrobe Blunder
The Travel
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January 26, 2025
It has been a mixed last couple of weeks for P&O Cruises. The cruise line was applauded for taking its chair-hogging rule to the next level. P&O Cruises announced a major crack down, one most passengers agreed with. However, on the flip side, an...
Roaming Charges: Who Shot the Tariffs?
CounterPunch
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April 11, 2025
Sabertooth tiger skull and Bay Bridge, San Francisco waterfront. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ‘Patriotism’ is its cult…Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for...
6 rockets launched in less than 24 hours! SpaceX and Amazon’s Project Kuiper drive new spaceflight record
The Times of India
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6 rockets launched in less than 24 hours In an unprecedented surge of space activity, six rockets lifted off from various global launch sites within a span of just 18 hours between April 28 and 29, 2025. This rapid-fire succession of launches set...
Arianespace launches Esa’s Biomass satellite
SatelliteProME
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May 2, 2025
The Biomass satellite aims to provide essential data on the condition and evolution of global forests, enhancing the understanding of how they influence the planet’s carbon cycle. Arianespace has launched the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth...