Afghanistan latest updates: The rapid fall of a nation 2021 Asia | Middle East | Afghanistan Afghanistan spent much of the 1980s fighting back the USSR invaders. The USA’s CIA funded and founded a group called the Taliban (The Students in Pushto). The 1990s were spent in post-Soviet civil war…
Jeff Bezos is using NASA over $2.9b deal with Elon Musk Business | Space | Space Travel Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’s space firm Blue Origin is suing Nasa over a decision to award a $2.9b USD lunar lander contract to Tesla’s Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The former Amazon boss’s firm said there…
Angry customers in London are leaving Vodafone following months of signal failure and now the removal of wifi access on the tube Technology | Computers and Phones | Data, Wifi and Mobile Signal | London | Vodafone Fact Box: Vodafone is now the only major network in the UK not…
Europe’s hottest ever temperature recorded on Italy’s largest island – Sicily Climate Change | Mediterranean | Italy | Sicily Fact Box: Wild Fires are common in the Mediterranean, yet summer 2021 has seen record high temperatures and the most intense fires on record spreading from Turkey, across Greece, the Balkan…
Jamaican runner, Elaine Thompson-Herah banned from social media for copyright breaches after posting footage of herself Sport | Olympics | Tokyo 2020 | Jamaica | Elaine Thompson-Herah | Copyright Law Fact Box: Elaine Thompson-Herah has the second fastest time ever recorded for the women’s 200 m at 21.53 seconds and…
Failing to wear a face mask on the London Underground to be a criminal offence COVID19 | Face Masks | Law | Crime | London Fact Box: The metro (or Subway for our American readers) in London is officially called the “Underground” but is more commonly referred to as the…
UK Black outs due to electric cars as island nations still planing to ban petrol and diesel by 2030 Cars | Electric Cars | Technology | Climate Change | Renewable Energy Fact Box: The UK government has faced questions and concerns regarding the strength of the island nation’s energy infrastructure….
Tunisia turmoil deepens as president sacks more officials in governmental cull Politics | Africa | North Africa | Tunisia Fact Box: President Kais Saied has issued further presidential decrees sacking a long list of senior government officials, including the chief army prosecutor, just days after his shock dismissal of the…
UAE ‘Cloud Seeding Drones’ successfully form clouds and create rain as manmade weather Technology | Cyber | Environment | Climate Change | Middle East | |UAE | Dubai FACT BOX: Geoengineering tech – controlling earth’s climate using manmade technologies – is a concept countries around the world have long dreamt of conquering. In what on any other…
Trump ally charged over UAE lobbying North America | USA | Politics | Law | Crime | Federal Corruption FACT BOX: Tom Barrack is the former Chair of Trump’s Presidential Inaugural Committee. Billionaire, Tom Barrack, was who was the Chair of former US president Donald Trump’s Inaugural Committee in 2016, has…
