NASA will launch a series of rockets into space from the Northern Territory starting this month, marking the first time the space exploration giant has launched rockets from a commercial facility outside the U.S. Between June 26 and July 12, three scientific suborbital sounding rockets will be launched from the Arnhem Space Centre, marking the…
NASA to Launch Rockets from Australia’s Northern Territory
June 8, 2022
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Fears Grow for Missing UK Journalist in Brazil as Sister Makes Appeal
The wife and the sister of a missing British journalist have called on the Brazilian government to pull out all the stops to find him after he vanished in a remote corner of the Amazon rainforest. Dom Phillips, 57, has not been seen since Sunday morning when he left the village of Sao Rafael in…
Cabinet Minister in Dominican Republic Slain in His Office
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic—The Dominican Republic’s minister of the environment and natural resources—the son of a former president—was shot to death in his office by a close friend Monday, the office of the president said in a statement. Authorities said Orlando Jorge Mera was shot by Fausto Miguel de Jesús Cruz de la Mota, who…
British Journalist, Brazilian Expert Missing in the Amazon
RIO DE JANEIRO—A British journalist and an Indigenous affairs expert are missing in a remote part of Brazil’s Amazon region, a local Indigenous association said Monday. The area has been marked by violent conflicts between fishermen, poachers and government agents. Dom Phillips, who has been a regular contributor to the Guardian newspaper, and Bruno Araújo…
How Brazil Is Saving the World From a Catastrophic Food Crisis
June 6, 2022
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Commentary Brazil is the fourth-largest producer of food in the world. The country is entirely self-sufficient in basic foodstuffs, and it ranks as the world’s number one producer of banana, cacao, cassava, coffee, corn, maize, rice, soybean, and sugar. Although the bulk of these products are consumed domestically, a considerable part is also exported, including…
Tropical Storm Alex Heads Toward Bermuda With High Winds
Tropical Storm Alex, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, gained a bit more force as it headed toward Bermuda on Sunday after killing three people in Cuba and causing flooding in parts of Florida. Alex reached tropical storm force early Sunday after strengthening off Florida’s east coast early Sunday. National Hurricane Center…
Mexico Death Toll From Storm Agatha Updates to 9, With 4 Missing
MEXICO CITY—The death toll caused by Hurricane Agatha in Mexico fell to nine after initial reports of 11 dead, state authorities said on Wednesday. Another four are currently missing, authorities told local media. Agatha made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Monday afternoon, touching down with 105 mile-per-hour (169 kilometer per hour) winds near…
Leader of Now-Defunct Colombian Drug Cartel Dies in US Jail
MIAMI—Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, an elderly leader of the former Cali cartel that smuggled vast amounts of cocaine from Colombia to the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, has died in a U.S. prison, his lawyer said Wednesday. In 2020, a judge had denied Rodríguez Orejuela, who was in his 80s, early release on compassionate…
Experts Criticize Biden’s Changing Policies For Cuba and Venezuela
June 1, 2022
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A discussion at the conservative Heritage Foundation gave rise to searching questions about President Joe Biden’s recent moves to ease restrictions on Cuba and Venezuela—including its actions to step up Venezuelan oil production. “At a time when the Biden administration is restricting domestic energy, he’s giving the [Venezuelan] dictator [Nicolas] Maduro the green light,” said…
Death Toll in Brazilian Floods Rises to 106, 10 Still Missing
At least 106 people have died and 10 are still missing in Brazil, the government said on Tuesday, as heavy rains tore through urban towns in the northeastern part of the country for a sixth consecutive day. The governor of the northeastern state of Pernambuco, Paulo Camara, in an interview with local media, said the…
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