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SpaceX to launch billionaire's pvt crew on breakthrough spacewalk mission

An attempt to launch last month was postponed hours before liftoff over a small helium leak in ground equipment on SpaceX's launchpad

Harris-Trump debate becomes 2024 US election's latest landmark event

Kamala Harris is intent on demonstrating that she can press the Democratic case against Trump better than Biden did

Robot resumes mission to retrieve melted fuel piece from Fukushima reactor

The robot's trip into the Unit 2 reactor is a crucial initial step for what comes next a daunting, decades-long process to decommission the plant

Nippon Steel's US setback a wake-up for Japan Inc's foreign investments

Some advisers said that the Nippon Steel deal was complicated by the US presidential election, with many Republican and Democratic lawmakers voicing opposition to it

Boeing labour deal angers many union workers ahead of vote, says official

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), which represents more than 32,000 workers in the US Pacific Northwest, announced the deal along with Boeing on Sunday

US bill to restrict business with China's biotech companies passes House

The US Senate's Homeland Security committee voted in March to approve a similar bill

North Korea's Kim vows to keep his nuclear force ready for combat with US

Kim has repeatedly made similar pledges, but his latest threat comes as outside experts believe Kim will perform provocative weapons tests ahead of the US presidential election in November

Amid drought in Brazil, wildfires rage, Amazon level falls to record low

Major Amazon basin rivers are registering historic lows, and uncontrolled manmade wildfires have ravaged protected areas and spread smoke over a vast expanse, plummeting air quality

Trump's rhetoric turns ominous as voting nears in presidential race

He also told a gathering of police officers last Friday that they should watch for the voter fraud, an apparent attempt to enlist law enforcement that would be legally dubious

Fixing child care would not be expensive: Trump as he proposes tax hikes

On one point, some child care experts agree with Trump: Fixing the child care system would not be very expensive compared with some other government expenditures

Nasa spacecraft to study Jupiter moon's ocean cleared for October launch

The project has high confidence we can complete the original mission for exploring Europa as planned, Evans said. We are ready for Jupiter

Venezuelan Oppn still hopes to unseat Maduro despite Gonzalez's exile

Machado's group maintains that it has evidence that Gonzlez won the July 28 presidential election by a wide margin against Venezuela's authoritarian incumbent president, Nicols Maduro

Ex-employees of Titanic submersible's owner to testify before panel

The Titan submersible imploded in the North Atlantic in June 2023, killing all five people on board and setting off a worldwide debate about the future of private undersea exploration

Jailed Harvey Weinstein taken to NYC hospital for emergency heart surgery

In July, he was hospitalised for treatment for a variety of health problems including Covid-19 and pneumonia in both lungs, his representatives said

Kenyan court suspends govt plan to allow Adani to operate main airport

The parties also argue that the $1.85 billion deal between the government and Adani Airport is unaffordable, threatens job losses, exposes the public disproportionately to fiscal risk

Australia to legislate minimum age for social media usage, says PM Albanese

Albanese said that it's about supporting parents and keeping kids safe

Donald Trump signals support for reclassifying pot as less dangerous drug

The Republican presidential nominee posted on his social media platform late Sunday that he would continue to focus on research to unlock the medical uses of marijuana to a Schedule 3 drug

Germany expands border controls to curb irregular migration, extremists

We are strengthening our internal security through concrete action and we are continuing our tough stance against irregular migration, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said at a news conference

Battery-powered devices are overheating more often on planes, raising alarm

In July, a smoking laptop in a passenger's bag led to the evacuation of a plane awaiting takeoff at San Francisco International Airport

Mario Draghi urges policy reform, investment drive to revive lagging EU

EU countries had already responded to the new realities, Draghi's report said, but it added that their effectiveness was limited by a lack of coordination