Aug 16 (Reuters) – Major U.S. oil industry groups on Monday sued the Biden administration for halting drilling auctions on federal lands and waters this year, arguing the government is required by law to hold regular sales. The American Petroleum Institute (API) and 11 other groups filed the lawsuit in […]
Daily Archives: August 16, 2021
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Getty Images After being hit by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake on Sunday and enduring weeks of political instability, Haiti is facing another cataclysm: Tropical Depression Grace, which is expected to bring torrential rain this week. Suffice to say, the people of Haiti are in desperate need of help. Whether you’re giving […]
Warzone Season 5 is hosting its first big event this week, with plenty of exciting details expected to be revealed concerning the future of the Call of Duty franchise. The big news will be focused on Call of Duty Vanguard, now confirmed as the next paid game being released in […]
One of Afghanistan’s first female mayors said Sunday she’s waiting for the Taliban to come and kill her as the Islamic militants reached the nation’s capital Kabul. “I’m sitting here waiting for them to come. There is no one to help me or my family. I’m just sitting with them […]
Mr Bezos flew to space with his brother Mark (L) in July, in the first crewed flight of his New Shepard spacecraft Jeff Bezos’s space firm Blue Origin is suing Nasa over a decision to award a $2.9bn (£2.1bn) lunar lander contract to Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The former Amazon boss’s […]
Ugandan pop singer Jemimah Kansiime, seen here in 2015, was the first person to be prosecuted under the anti-pornography law A controversial anti-pornography law has been quashed in Uganda following pressure from women’s rights groups. The government introduced the legislation in 2014 to prohibit the spread of pornography, which it […]
Afghanistan will not compete at this month’s Paralympics in Tokyo, after the team were unable to leave Kabul as a result of the Taliban’s conquest of the country. Zakia Khudadadi had been set to become the country’s first female Paralympian when the taekwondo fighter was named alongside the discus thrower […]
By Adam Vaughan Climate activists at a protest in Berlin, Germany, on 12 May CLEMENS BILAN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock World leaders must drastically scale up their plans to curb CO2 emissions if humanity is to avoid the worst consequences of a warming world outlined in last week’s report by the Intergovernmental Panel on […]