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Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has announced that world leading tech companies have pledged 2 billion pounds ($2.5 billion) worth of investments in the UK this week. Supporting more than 1,300 skilled jobs, Siemens Healthineers Thursday announced that they are investing 250 million pounds ($312 million) to design and manufacture superconducting magnets for MRI scanners at a new Siemens

The Justice Department has filed suit against the State of Iowa challenging its immigration law. Governor Kim Reynolds signed the Senate File 2340 bill, making illegal immigration a state crime in Iowa, last month. The new measure has been qquestioned under the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause and Foreign Commerce Clause, which assigns the federal government to regulate immigration and mana

Energy Ministers of G7 countries have reached a consensus on commitment to phase out existing unabated coal power generation in energy systems in their countries during the first half of the 2030s. This is a major outcome on something the G7 has never before been able to find common ground on due to significant domestic differences among member nations. The decision is consistent with the IEA'

NASA's investment in a breakthrough super-alloy developed for the extreme temperatures and harsh conditions of air and spaceflight is going to pay commercial dividends. The U.S. space agency announced that it is licensing its invention, dubbed "GRX-810," to four American companies. The four co-exclusive licensees are Carpenter Technology Corporation of Reading, Pennsylvania; Elementum 3D, Inc. o

The UN Palestine refugee agency's headquarters in East Jerusalem has been temporarily closed after an arson attack on Thursday following weeks of protests. "This evening, Israeli residents set fire twice to the perimeter of the UNRWA Headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem. This took place while UNRWA and other UN Agencies' staff were on the compound," UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzari

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted defiantly to President Joe Biden's warning that he will withhold US weaponry to its strongest Middle East ally in case of a major invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah. "If we need to ... we will stand alone. I have said that if necessary we will fight with our fingernails," Netanyahu said Thursday. The Israeli military spokesman Daniel Ha

A former quality manager at Spirit AeroSystems, the leading supplier to Boeing Co. (BA) and a significant manufacturer of the 737 Max aircraft, has recently come forward with allegations of being pressured to downplay defects discovered during fuselage inspections. Santiago Paredes, one of the latest...

2023 saw another climate record tumble, with Latin America and the Caribbean registering their hottest ever recorded temperatures, according to the UN's weather monitoring agency. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) attributed the temperatures to a "double whammy" of El Nino and long-term climate change, leading to droughts and wildfires combined with extreme rainfall and hurricanes. "U

The H5N1 avian influenza virus has so far shown no signs of adapting to allow human-to-human transmission, the UN health agency said, urging continued surveillance. So far, one human case has been reported in the United States since the outbreak of bird flu among the millions of dairy cattle across the country. At least 220 people are subject to monitoring and at least 30 have been tested. "Howe

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is updating its dog importation regulation to protect the health and safety of people and animals by making sure any dog arriving in the United States is healthy and doesn't present a risk to its communities. As per the updated dog importation regulation,...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced the launch of ENERGY STAR NextGen Certified Homes and Apartments, a voluntary, leading-edge certification program for the nation's new residential and commercial buildings. Developed with funding from the Inflation Reduction Act, ENERGY STAR NextGen will increase national energy and emissions savings by accelerating the building industry's a

The crewed flight test of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station has been rescheduled to 6:16 p.m. EDT on May 17. The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, carrying the Starliner spacecraft, was scheduled to blast off from Space Launch Complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Monday. But the long-awaited space flight was scrubbed at the last minute a

Russia continues to wage a war against Ukraine despite losing hundreds of soldiers every day, according to UK military advisor, Nicholas Aucott. Russian military is suffering an average loss of 899 soldiers per day, Aucott said at a meeting of OSCE in Vienna. He says Russian casualties in the more than two years-old war have crossed 465,000. "Not only is this an act of aggression against a so

President Joe Biden has said he will withhold US weaponry to Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders a major invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah. "Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers," Biden said in an interview to CNN in an apparent reference to Washington freezing shipments of 2,000-pound

A federal jury in Pensacola, Florida, convicted a former U.S. Army soldier for the murder of a pregnant, 19-year-old fellow soldier on a U.S. Army base in Germany more than 22 years ago. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, on November 3, 2001, Shannon L. Wilkerson, 43, beat...