Update: Boeing’s Starliner astronaut capsule fails key test to reach space station
Boeing’s new Starliner spacecraft is in the wrong orbit during first trip to space CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida, US), Dec 21…
US accuses Venezuela of bribes to rig opposition vote
US Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams (right) and Charge d’Affaires for Venezuela James Story WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) —…
US removes Sudan from religious freedom blacklist
A Sudanese Christian woman prays during a Sunday service at the All Saints Cathedral in Khartoum WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (NNN-AGENCIES)…
US won’t levy threatened tariffs on Brazil steel, Pres Trump told Pres Bolsonaro
BRASILIA, Dec 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said that US President Donald Trump told him in a Friday phone…
US Pres Trump says had ‘very good talk’ with China’s Pres Xi on trade deal
US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping WASHINGTON/BEIJING, Dec 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Donald Trump said…
Eyeing combat in outer space, US creates Pentagon Space Force
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Gen. Jay Raymond, after signing the letter of his appointment as the chief of…
At the US-Mexican border, migrants give up hope of crossing
CIUDAD JUAREZ (Mexico), Dec 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — In a muddy makeshift camp in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez,…
US crew spacecraft Starliner starts unmanned flight test
WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (NNN-XINHUA) — A US spacecraft designed to fly astronauts to the International Space Station from the United…
Ethiopia aims to cut sugar tax ahead of privatization plan
ADDIS ABABA, Dec 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ethiopia plans to cut an excise tax on sugar to 20% from 33%, according…
First Ebola relapse recorded in DR Congo outbreak, WHO says
A Congolese health worker administers ebola vaccination to a resident at a centre in Goma, DR Congo GENEVA, Dec 21…