International News (Page 164)

When three porcupines showed up at Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care with an array of injuries from last year’s Caldor Fire, and then another in January with a fractured clavicle, animal care director Denise Upton was befuddled.“We’ve never, ever rehabbed four porcupines at one time,” Upton says. “We get one a season, maybe.” Most Californians have…Continue Reading

Reports say the airport in the central Ukrainian city has been completely destroyed in the Russian attack.Published On 10 Apr 202210 Apr 2022Russian missiles destroyed an airport in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro and five emergency workers were injured in the attack. “There has been another attack on Dnipro airport. There is nothing left of…Continue Reading

Adama Barrow’s National People’s Party is short of an absolute majority in the 58-seat chamber, election results show.Published On 10 Apr 202210 Apr 2022Gambian President Adama Barrow’s party has won a narrow victory in legislative elections, but fell short of securing the majority needed to govern the country alone. Barrow’s National People’s Party won 19…Continue Reading

Oleg Orlov, of the now-banned Memorial human rights group, held a banner in Red Square to protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Published On 10 Apr 202210 Apr 2022Oleg Orlov, a prominent Russian human rights activist, has been detained after staging a one-man protest in Moscow’s Red Square against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Members of Memorial,…Continue Reading

On March 30, just a day after a Russian missile hit an administrative building in the port city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, killing at least 12 people, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the case for the establishment of new world order. In a videotaped message to his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, Lavrov claimed…Continue Reading

Earlier, Israeli soldiers launched a new raid into the occupied West Bank district of Jenin.Published On 10 Apr 202210 Apr 2022A Palestinian woman has been shot dead by Israeli forces near the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to the Palestinian health ministry said. The woman, aged in her 40s, died after she suffered…Continue Reading

Republican candidates for Pennsylvania governor are pledging to open up natural gas production, but there are constraints to what a governor can doBy MARC LEVY Associated PressApril 10, 2022, 1:10 PM• 6 min readHARRISBURG, Pa. — Republican Bill McSwain pledges to be a pro-energy governor by “turning on the spigot of natural gas.” Another hopeful,…Continue Reading

The price is going up for disrupting airline flightsByThe Associated PressApril 8, 2022, 5:50 PM• 2 min readWASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday that it it seeking the largest fines yet for passengers who disrupt flights after two incidents that occurred on airliners last summer.The FAA said it proposed a civil penalty of…Continue Reading

EDPR, Finerge, Voltalia and Endesa were among the winners of Portugal’s latest renewables procurement exercise, in which 163 MW of floating PV capacity was allocated. April 8, 2022 Pilar Sánchez MolinaFrom pv magazine SpainPortugal awarded 183 MW of renewables capacity in an auction for floating PV projects this week. Around 56% of the capacity was…Continue Reading