Category: 4. World

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico this week, leaving 1.4 million customers without power and more than 400,000 without water.

It was the second massive outage to hit…

The 15 April marked the two-year anniversary of a civil war in Sudan that has left tens of thousands dead and millions displaced. I published an essay in Sidecar, ‘Gunshots in Khartoum’, two days after the war began, which tried to trace its…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A bright object, initially appearing to be a meteorite, lit up the skies over Mexico’s capital around 3 a.m. Wednesday, stretching over plains, volcanoes and small towns.

Videos of a…

The British Army says it shot down a drone swarm using a radiowave-based directed energy weapon, in a first for the technology in the UK.

At an undisclosed weapons range in Wales, the Radiofrequency Directed Energy…

In a move that has ignited fierce debate and drawn international condemnation, Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Act into law.

The legislation, ostensibly aimed at regulating…

There are often aircraft landings that may feel hard to passengers, but that are well within the structural limits of an aircraft. Then there’s what happened to a Frontier Airlines jet a couple of days ago, where it landed so hard that it…

Ukrainian forces repelled a massive Russian assault in the south, eliminating 140 troops, destroying 29 pieces of military equipment, and damaging three tanks, the Southern Defense Forces reported.

A video of the engagement was published on…