NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Transit’s train engineers reached a tentative deal Sunday to end their three-day strike that had
. They include legal scholar Benny Tai, who got a 10-year prison term, and former student leader, who has to serve four years and eight months.
Critics said the national security law has effectively crushed the city’s pro-democracy movement, but Beijing and Hong Kong governments insist it brought back stability to the city.Hong Kong Secretary for Security Chris Tang said in a press briefing Thursday that those who were jailed for national security offenses and freed from correctional facilities enjoy freedoms, including freedom of expression, like other residents. He said their conviction would not affect a certain aspect of their freedoms.NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian space agency’s mission to launch into orbit a new Earth observation satellite failed after the launch vehicle encountered a technical issue during the third stage of flight, officials said Sunday.
The EOS-09 Earth observation satellite took off on board the PSLV-C61 launch vehicle from the Sriharikota space center in southern India on Sunday morning.“During the third stage ... there was a fall in the chamber pressure of the motor case, and the mission could not be accomplished,” said V. Narayanan, chief of the Indian Space Research Organisation.
Active in space research since the 1960s, India has launched satellites for itself and other countries, and successfully put one in orbit around Mars in 2014.
After a failed attempt to land on the moon in 2019,Many in this semi-autonomous territory are worried and offended by
of their mineral-rich homeland, even by force, because he says the U.S. needs it “for national security.”Greenlanders, after President Trump’s remarks about acquiring their homeland, are seeing unprecedented interest in independence from Denmark ahead of a March 11 election. (AP Video: James Brooks, Emilio Morenatti, Luis Andres Henao)
“How can a few words … change the whole world?” asked Aqqaluk Lynge, a former president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and founder of the Inuit Ataqatigiit party, which governs Greenland. “It can because he’s playing with fire. We’re seeing another United States here with whole new ideas and wishes.”Greenland is vital to the world, though much of the world may not realize it.