The Chinese Academy of Sciences has released the latest batch of orbital test results for the Qingzhou experimental spacecraft launched on March 30. TV BRICS reported via Science and Technology Daily that the spacecraft was developed under the leadership of the Innovation Academy for Microsatellites at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The test data revealed breakthrough progress in three…
A national passenger rail network has come into operation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). TV BRICS, via Emirates News Agency, reported that the first journey departed from the emirate of Fujairah to the emirate of Abu Dhabi. The arrival of the first train from Fujairah station at Mohamed bin Zayed City station in Abu Dhabi was marked by…
A rescue operation in La Guaira has succeeded in getting a toddler out alive from under the rubble, six days after the double-earthquake disaster in Venezuela. The miraculous story of the three-year-old’s rescue in the worst-hit northern region came as tens of thousands of people remained without adequate shelter after the 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude quakes struck less than a…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) cautioned on Tuesday that Venezuela’s medical infrastructure is under intense duress following last week’s devastating double quakes, which inflicted damage on multiple hospitals and left a number of health workers unaccounted for. The UN health agency reported that the successive 7.2 and 7.5-magnitude tremors have claimed over 1,700 lives and injured roughly 5,000 more,…
A Russian attack on the south-eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya killed at least one person and wounded seven others, Ukrainian authorities said. A warning of possible further strikes remained in effect on Wednesday morning because of Russian drones in the airspace, the Kyiv Independent reported. Governor Ivan Fedorov said civilian infrastructure was damaged, and a multi-storey residential building caught…
Thousands of residents have left their homes ahead of the planned defusing of a 250-kilogram World War II bomb discovered in the German city of Potsdam just outside Berlin. Some 6,500 people living in the affected area had been asked to evacuate by 8:30 a.m. (0630 GMT) on Tuesday morning, with emergency workers currently going from door to door…
