A new NASA space observatory, called SPHEREx, is scheduled to launch into orbit Thursday on a mission to map more than 450 million galaxies.
Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds, but a "terrorist" to many within wider Turkish society.- From village life to militancy - Ocalan was born on April 4, 1949, one of six siblings in a mixed Turkish-Kurdish peasant family in Omerli, a village in Turkey's southeast.
Nvidia stock rose 2% early Thursday as investor enthusiasm over Blackwell AI sales was dampened by Nvidia's lower-than-expected guidance for first quarter gross margins.
The progress Canada has made on tightening security along the border with the United States and combating drug smuggling should satisfy the Trump administration, Public Safety Minister David McGuinty said on Thursday. At the same time he spoke, President Donald Trump said his proposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada would go into effect on March 4 as scheduled on the grounds that drugs were still pouring into the United States from those countries. "We are quite convinced that the efforts we've made thus far should satisfy the U.S. administration," McGuinty said in televised remarks to reporters in Washington ahead of two days of talks with senior U.S. officials.
Health groups and non-governmental organizations expressed surprise and outrage Thursday and said many humanitarian programs would collapse after the Trump administration's decision to cut 90% of USAID's foreign aid contracts. The move, barely a month after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a 90-day review of spending, will permanently defund programs across the world that fight hunger and disease and provide other life-saving help for millions. “Women and children will go hungry, food will rot in warehouses while families starve, children will be born with HIV — among other tragedies,” said the InterAction group, an alliance of NGOs in the United States that work on aid programs across the world.
Novavax closed up the day it reported a pivot in direction.
It's the second Holland America Line ship to have dozens of passengers fall ill this month, according to the CDC.
The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century in jail after leading his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to take up arms against the Turkish state to fight for a Kurdish homeland. On Thursday, Ocalan, from his cell in Imrali island prison in the Sea of Marmara, south of Istanbul, called on the PKK to lay down its arms and dissolve itself, a move which if heeded by his fighters will bring an end to their 40-year insurgency and have wide-ranging implications for the wider region. Ocalan, revered by the pro-Kurdish political movement but reviled by most Turks for starting the conflict in 1984, made the call four months after being urged to do so by an ally of President Tayyip Erdogan.
BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia's President Gustavo Petro will name unionist and former vice-minister of labor Edwin Palma as the country's new energy minister, as part of a cabinet reshuffle, a source in Petro's office said on Thursday. Petro asked all his ministers to present their resignations earlier this month, after a tense televised cabinet meeting where several high-ranking officials objected to two Petro appointments. Petro has replaced nine major ministers, following the definitive resignations of the interior and environmental ministers and his acceptance of the resignation of the former energy minister, Andres Camacho.
At 11:11 a.m. on Thursday, hundreds of thousands of carnival revelers took over the streets of the Rhineland in western Germany, dancing, singing, drinking and showing off their colorful costumes. In cities like Cologne, Düsseldorf, Bonn and Mainz, Karnevalisten — as the revelers are called in German — threw confetti, toasted with beer and swayed together on the streets. In addition to typical German brass band music, the sound of samba was in the air, too.
A spike in demand for electricity from tech companies competing in the artificial intelligence race is upending forecasts for natural gas-fired power in the U.S., as utilities reconsider it as a major new power source. Across the nation, tech companies are snapping up real estate and seeking new power projects to feed their energy-hungry operations. In some cases, Big Tech is building climate-friendlier projects like solar, wind, geothermal or battery storage.
Turkey hopes the statement will pave the way for Ocalan's outlawed PKK to disarm, potentially ending the insurgency it has been waging against the Turkish state since 1984 and in which 40,000 people have been killed. The YPG has a female counterpart, the YPJ.
Kansas City Fed president Jeff Schmid warned about the lessons of the 1970s as he expressed new worries about rising consumer expectations of future inflation.
Thailand deported dozens of Uyghurs to China on Thursday despite warnings from human rights groups that they would face persecution on their return, drawing swift condemnation from the United Nations.Rights groups had warned in recent weeks that Bangkok was preparing to deport a group of 48 Uyghurs being held in immigration centres around Thailand.
An upbeat tone is seeping into markets as investors dig into Nvidia's quarterly earnings beat, which signaled plenty of scope for growth.
While it's safe for most people to fast, planning ahead and keeping nutrition in mind can make the month that much more meaningful, said Elfakhani, a nutrition expert at Pennsylvania State University. Young children, the elderly and those who are pregnant, menstruating or breastfeeding are exempt from fasting. People with diabetes, heart disease or other chronic conditions should talk to their doctor when deciding to fast, especially if they take medications regularly.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will head to Washington in the coming days to meet with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and discuss economic and political cooperation, Smotrich's spokesperson said Thursday. Smotrich was invited by Bessent in a call two weeks ago, said Smotrich’s spokesperson, Eitan Fuld, and they'll meet around the weekend of March 8-9. It would mark the first in-person talks between Smotrich, a fervent settler advocate at the helm of Israel’s settlement planning apparatus, and a Trump administration official — and it could have major implications for U.S. policy toward the settlements, which the international community largely considers illegal.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently investigating five hospitalizations that occurred in people who had recently received a vaccine that prevents disease caused by the chikungunya virus.
This Black History Month, journalist Ida B. Wells can teach us the importance of community-based care.
Democratic lawmakers are demanding answers from Elon Musk about whether staffers at his Department of Government Efficiency have shared national security secrets over insecure communication channels. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia were joined by several other Democrats on a letter Thursday that asserts that reckless actions by Musk and Republican President Donald Trump's cost-cutting initiative present a threat to national security by exposing secrets about America's defense and intelligence agencies.
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