Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Fram2 astronauts to polar orbit on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center
The launch will be the first human spaceflight mission to a polar orbit. Liftoff is set for Monday, March 31, at 9:46 p.m. EDT (0146 UTC…
Meet the Fram2 crew: A cryptocurrency entrepreneur, a cinematographer, a robotics engineer and an Arctic explorer
The roughly 3.5 to 5-day mission will be the first human spaceflight over the arctic and antarctic poles. Launch is targeting no earlier than Monday, March 31, weather permitting…
Legislation to remove guardianship rights from convicted killers to be brought to Cabinet
The family of Valerie French Kilroy, who was killed by her husband in 2019, called for the law to change…
Israel killed 15 paramedics and rescue workers in Gaza, says UN
The workers had been missing for a week before their crushed ambulance and a mass grave was discovered, says the UN humanitarian office…US sanctions six Chinese and Hong Kong officials for rights abuses
Western countries have criticized Beijing for imposing the national security law on Hong Kong and using it to jail pro-democracy activists…
Myanmar earthquake death toll rises over 2000 as humanitarian crisis deepen
The quake could exacerbate hunger and disease outbreaks in a country that was already one of the world’s most challenging places for humanitarian organisations to operate because of civil war, aid groups and the United Nations warned…
Uzbekistan: Release Blogger From Psychiatric Detention | Mirage News
The Uzbekistan government should immediately release and compensate the blogger and activist Valijon Kalonov who has been forcibly detained in a psychiatric hospital since December 2021, the Uzbek Forum for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch said today. On February 28, 2025, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) issued an opinion regarding
Cesar Chavez Day celebrates a lifetime fight for justice for farmworkers
Cesar Chavez Day celebrates the life and legacy of the labor rights icon…
Why children may have taken part in creating prehistoric cave art
A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis regarding an intriguing question: Why did ancient humans bring their young children to cave-painting sites—deep underground—through dark, meandering, hazardous passages…