Author: Tina Antil

The Announcement During a visit to the southern Polish city of Zamosc on Tuesday, Britain’s defence secretary said that the country will expand the deployment of an air defence system in Poland. Ben Wallace said at a news conference, “I am glad to announce that we will extend the existing deployment of our medium air defence for another term to ensure that Poland is safe while continuing to provide logistical support to Ukraine.” The Story Earlier Defence Secretary Ben Wallace had stated during a trip to Warsaw on March 17 that a recently installed British air-defence system was being sent…

THE MONETARY CRISIS AND CALL FOR HELP After weeks of record floods in Pakistan due to climate change , the United Nations increased its humanitarian aid appeal for Pakistan by five times, to $816 million from $160 million. This is because a rise in water-borne infections and concern about growing hunger pose new threats. The amount of money needed by Pakistan to recover from the most recent devastating floods has increased five-fold, according to the country’s climate change minister, who on Tuesday pleaded for immediate assistance from outside at the launch of a U.N. humanitarian appeal. Sherry Rehman, the minister…

IAEA expressed concerns over the Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The director-general of Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power facility was demanded to be released by the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, who said that his incarceration endangered safety and security. Ihor Murashov was apprehended by a Russian patrol on Friday, according to the state-owned company in charge of the plant, which announced the incident on Saturday. The International Atomic Energy Agency said Russia had confirmed the action. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi expressed the hope that Mr. Murashov would be able to resume his significant responsibilities at…

The Australian authorities on Sunday levelled its grinding grievance again in opposition to Optus, the second-largest telecoms business enterprise, for a cybersecurity breach that affected the equal of 40% of the country’s population. The authorities blamed Optus, owned by Singapore Telecommunications (STEL.SI), for the breach, which affected 10 million accounts, urging the business enterprise to hurry up its notification to about 10 thousand clients whose private statistics became available in one of the country’s largest cybersecurity breaches. “We never ought to be in the position we are in, however Optus has positioned us here,” Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil informed…

Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins’s centre-right New Unity Party won Saturday’s elections with 19% of the vote (according to the provisional results), putting it in the position to lead another coalition government. The result of her 96% of constituencies being tallied makes Latvia, alongside its Baltic neighbors Lithuania and Estonia, a leader in urging the European Union to take a firm stance against Russia. After the election, Karin’s party was the party who won the most votes again. Current coalition members were on track to win him 42 seats in a 100-seat parliament, so Karin will need to call…

North Korea conducted another banned missile test just hours after the visit of US Vice President Kamala Harris, the South Korean military says.

Former Japanese soldier Rina Gonoi came forward in late August to demand a review of an alleged attack on her by a former male colleague in 2021. In a rare acknowledgment of sexual harassment in the Japanese military on Sept. 29, the army chief apologized to former soldiers for the harm done by a group of military personnel. Japan Ground Self-Defence Force President Yoshihide Yoshida said an internal investigation had found evidence that several soldiers were involved in an incident involving former soldier Rina Gonoi last month. At a press conference, Yoshida said, “As the representative of the Ground Self-Defence…

NASA on Monday slammed a small spacecraft into an asteroid, successfully hitting it at 14,000 miles per hour, to test whether such technology could be used to protect Earth from potentially catastrophic impacts. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft’s violent demise exhilarated scientists and engineers at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland, who were conducting missions under contract with NASA. pleased. The asteroid, Dimorphos, is about the size of a stadium – or the Great Pyramid of Giza, as one scientist put it on Monday – and is currently about 7 million kilometres from…

Eliud Kipchoge, a two-time Olympic champion, smashed his own men’s marathon world record on Sunday in Berlin. When he finished in two hours, one minute, and nine seconds, the 37-year-old Kenyan broke his previous record, which was set four years ago in the capital of Germany, by 30 seconds.. He had already lowered his fellow countryman Dennis Kimetto’s Berlin 2014 record of 2:02.57 by one minute and 20 seconds. Eliud Kipchoge had minimized his chances of breaking the world mark in the run-up to the event. “I’m happy with my preparation, and I think that the other people’s cooperation helped…

At 3.25 pm, the NROL-91 spy satellite launched from the Californian Vandenberg Space Force Base. On September 24, a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy rocket carried a classified satellite for the American National Reconnaissance Office into orbit. The Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California, saw the launch of the NROL-91 spy satellite at 3:25 PM. It marked the final Delta 4 launch from the west coast. More launches from Florida are planned before ULA switches to its newest Vulcan Centaur rockets to replace the Deltas. In December 2004, the Delta IV Heavy configuration made its debut.This…