Four-day Africa Tech Festival 2024 kicks off in Cape Town
Cape Town, Nov 13 (IANS) The Africa Tech Festival 2024 kicked off in Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa. By bringing together global technology and telecom leaders, entrepreneurs, and policymakers, the festival, one of the largest and most influential telecom and technology events in Africa, aims to drive digital transformation and innovation across […]
WFP seeks fund to help over 1 million food-insecure Kenyans
Nairobi, Nov 13 (IANS) The World Food Programme (WFP) said that it requires $137.6 million in net funding to provide humanitarian aid to one million food-insecure Kenyans over the next six months. The WFP estimates that one million Kenyans, primarily in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs), are acutely food insecure — a number projected to […]
S.Korea, US-developed solar coronagraph installed at International Space Station
Seoul, Nov 13 (IANS) A solar coronagraph jointly developed by South Korea and the United States has been successfully installed on the International Space Station (ISS) to begin its mission of observing the sun and its outer atmosphere, or corona, Seoul’s national space agency said on Wednesday. The Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) was installed on […]
John Ratcliffe is Trump’s pick to head CIA
Washington, Nov 13 (IANS) US President-elect Donald Trump has named John Ratcliffe, a former congressman and Director of National Intelligence, as his Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, contrary to feverish speculation that the job was going to Kash Patel, an Indian-American. Trump had pushed for Patel as acting director of the CIA in the […]
Trump appoints Musk, Ramaswamy to head Dept of Government Efficiency
New York, Nov 13 (IANS) US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he is appointing two maverick entrepreneurs — Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency (DoGE) that will be charged with drastically changing government while cutting waste. Announcing the appointments on Truth Social on Tuesday night, Trump said […]
Trump names South Dakota governor to head Homeland Security with immigration mandate (2nd Ld)
New York, Nov 13 (IANS) US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as his secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, which controls immigration-related agencies. Announcing her nomination on the social media platform ‘Truth Social’ on Tuesday night, Trump said, “Kristi has been very strong on Border Security.” With Deputy Chief […]
16 killed after coach falls into river in Pakistan
Islamabad, Nov 13 (IANS) At least 16 people were killed and two others injured after a passenger coach fell into a river in Pakistan’s northern Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region, an official said. The spokesperson for the region, Faiz Ullah Faraq, said on Tuesday in a statement that a passenger coach carrying 26 persons fell into the […]
2 killed in rocket attack from Lebanon in Israel
Jerusalem, Nov 13 (IANS) Two men were killed in Israel’s northern city of Nahariya in a rocket attack from Lebanon, Israeli authorities said. According to the Israeli military, Hezbollah forces launched two barrages on Tuesday noon, the first of around 10 rockets targeting the north that led to the casualties, and the second of three […]
10 Houthi operatives killed by US drone strikes in Yemen: Govt source
Sanaa, Nov 13 (IANS) At least 10 Houthi operatives were killed in two separate US drone strikes in Yemen’s central Al-Bayda province, a Yemeni government military source told the media. The strikes targeted mobile rocket launchers in the As-Sawma’ah and Dhi-Na’im districts, the source said on Tuesday on condition of anonymity. Local residents reported on […]
Wildfires burn from coast to coast in US
New York, Nov 13 (IANS) Firefighters in the western US state of California gained a foothold in the battle against a wildfire north of Los Angeles while weather officials have issued red flag warnings across the US Northeast where blazes turned deadly over the weekend. The Mountain Fire in California’s Ventura County burned 20,630 acres […]
