(Al Jazeera Media Network) NASA has unveiled the four-member crew for its upcoming mission around the moon, a team that includes the first woman, the first person of colour, and the first Canadian assigned to a lunar mission.
At a ceremony on Monday in Houston, Texas, NASA announced that Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and Jeremy Hansen would crew the Artemis II mission for a 10-day flight, marking the agency’s first moon voyage containing humans in...
(BBC News) The Chinese balloon that flew over the U.S. earlier this year managed to gather intelligence from military bases for days before it was shot down, U.S. media report.
The balloon was able to transmit data to Beijing in real time, NBC News reported, citing U.S. officials.
The craft picked up electronic signals rather than taking pictures, according to one official quoted by the network.
The White House did not confirm the report.
But U.S. officials say they...
(BBC News) An explosion in a St. Petersburg cafe has killed prominent Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, Russia's Interior Ministry has confirmed.
At least 19 people were injured in the bomb blast at Street Food Bar No 1.
Videos posted on social media show an explosion and injured people on the street. It is not clear who was responsible for the blast.
Tatarsky (real name Maxim Fomin) was a vocal supporter of Russia's war in Ukraine.
He was...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Saudi Arabia and other OPEC+ oil producers have announced voluntary cuts to their production amounting to about 1.15 million barrels per day (bpd), calling it a “precautionary measure” aimed at market stability.
The 23-nation group had been largely expected to stick to its already agreed 2 million bpd cuts when its ministerial panel, which includes Saudi Arabia and Russia, meets virtually on Monday.
In October, OPEC+, which comprises the Organization of the...
(BBC News) Three British nationals are being held in custody by the Taliban in Afghanistan, a humanitarian organization has told the BBC.
Scott Richards from the Presidium Network named one of the men as Kevin Cornwell, 53, from Middlesbrough.
Richards said he and a man who has not been named were arrested on January 11. He confirmed a third British man was taken into custody on a different date.
The Foreign Office said it was working hard to...
(BBC News) Former U.S. President Donald Trump will be charged over hush money payments made to a porn star just before the 2016 presidential election.
The details of the case against him have not yet been released.
A grand jury has voted to indict him after investigating a $130,000 payout to Stormy Daniels, reportedly in an attempt to buy her silence over an alleged affair.
Trump, 76, denies wrongdoing. He is the first serving or former U.S....
(Al Jazeera Media Network) During a five-hour grilling of the chief executive of TikTok last week, United States lawmakers railed against the possibility of China using the wildly popular, partly Chinese-owned app to spy on Americans.
They did not mention how the U.S. government itself uses U.S. tech companies that largely control the global internet to spy on everyone else.
As the U.S. considers banning the short video app used by more than 150 million Americans, lawmakers...
(BBC News) Key figures in artificial intelligence want training of powerful AI systems to be suspended amid fears of a threat to humanity.
They have signed an open letter warning of potential risks, and say the race to develop AI systems is out of control.
Twitter chief Elon Musk is among those who want training of AIs above a certain capacity to be halted for at least six months.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and some researchers at DeepMind also...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) United States President Joe Biden has told Israel it “cannot continue” pushing ahead with deeply controversial judicial reforms — now on hold — that have prompted months of unrest. And those comments led Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to say he does not make decisions based on pressure from abroad.
Biden’s comments on Tuesday came as Netanyahu was being accused by opponents of riding roughshod over Israeli democracy in an attempt to strengthen...
(BBC News) Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of failed crypto firm FTX, has been accused of bribing at least one Chinese official.
In new charges unveiled in the U.S., officials accuse the entrepreneur of authorizing a bribe of "at least $40 million" to try to gain access to trading accounts frozen by Chinese authorities.
The allegations add to the fraud case filed last year after FTX's collapse. Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to those claims earlier this year.
He is under...
