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1 killed, 12 injured after tornadoes hit south central US
The dead was found in Cheyenne in the wake of severe storms, local media outlet KOCO reported on Monday. Several homes and a cemetery in the western Oklahoma town were damaged due to tornadoes on late Sunday and early Monday. None of the injuries are critical, KOCO reported.Video on social media showed that in the overnight tornadoes and high wind.
Ukraine to fulfill EU's additional requirements for membership talks: Official
Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, said that Ukraine has already completed the necessary work on seven recommendations needed for closer integration with the European Union, Xinhua news agency reported, citing Ukrinform news agency. In particular, Ukraine made progress in fighting corruption and reforming the mass media, Stefanishyna said.
Ahead of major strikes, Sri Lanka President declares many services essential
"President Wickremesinghe signed a Gazette notification a short while ago declaring public transport services for passengers or goods, discharge, carriage, landing, storage, delivery & removal of articles of food or drink, or coal, oil, fuel from vessels within any port as definedfor the purposes of the Customs Ordinance (Chapter 235), the provision and maintenance of facilities for transport services by road, rail or air, including roads, bridges, culverts, airports, ports & railway lines, as essential services with immediate effect," President's Media Division announced on Monday night.
US lawmaker warns India against Chinese-tainted Russian weapons
"We don't want to be in a situation where for some reason, the Russians somehow have given technology that's compromised by the CCP to India or others that could be taken advantage of by the CCP," said Raja Krishnamoorthi, the top Democrat and the ranking member of the newly established House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the US and the Communist Party of China (CCP), in an interview.
NASA-SpaceX's Crew-6 mission to fly on Thursday
A few minutes before the slated liftoff on Monday, the mission teams decided to stand down following an issue with the ignition system. They looked to investigate an issue preventing data from confirming a full load of the ignition source for the Falcon 9 first stage Merlin engines, triethylaluminum triethylboron (or TEA-TEB).
China slams US sanctions against Chinese firms related to Russia
Mao Ning, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, told a press briefing that the US actions lack both the basis in international law and UN Security Council mandate, Xinhua news agency reported. "They are typical unilateral sanctions and illegal 'long-arm jurisdiction' and detrimental to Chinese interests. We deplore and reject this move and have made serious demarches to the US side," Mao said.
Russian spy chief dismisses CIA Director's claim of 'defiance', 'hubris' in Nov meet
The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) head's comments came after CIA Director William Burns in a CBS News interview described the high-level meeting between the two as "pretty dispiriting" and accused his Russian counterpart of displaying "a very defiant attitude" and "a sense of cockiness and hubris" during the negotiations.
ESA telescope gets ready to probe universe's dark mysteries
The space telescope will create the largest, most accurate 3D map of the Universe ever produced, observing shapes and movements of billions of galaxies across 10 billion years of cosmic time, over more than a third of the sky. From this data, Euclid will reveal how the Universe has expanded and how structures have formed over cosmic history, revealing more about the role of gravity and the nature of dark energy and dark matter.
Wagner mercenary chief calls for Russian defence minister's son-in-law to be raped or 'given the sledgehammer'
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin threatened to have his men bring Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu's son-in-law Alexey Stolyarov (33) to him so he could be trained to go and fight in Ukraine, Daily Mail reported. Prigozhin said the fitness influencer could be 'raped' or face the notorious 'sledgehammer' that Wagner has used to kill defectors, as the bitter rift.
NASA-SpaceX's Crew-6 mission to space 'scrubbed'
A few minutes before the slated liftoff, the mission was scrubbed due to an issue with the ignition system. "Today's #Crew6 launch has been scrubbed due to an issue with ground systems, NASA team officials posted on Twitter."Standing down from tonight's launch of Crew-6 due to a TEA-TEB ground system issue," SpaceX said. Both Crew-6 and the vehicles are healthy and propellant.
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