The administration of US President Joe Biden has demanded the prompt deployment of a security team headed by Kenya to Haiti in response to the murders of three missionaries who were employed by a US organisation in the violent Caribbean nation.
The non-profit Missions in Haiti Inc. made the appeal on Friday, not long after disclosing that three of its missionaries had been shot and killed on Thursday night in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, by armed assailants.
Launch of NASA PREFIRE mission to investigate Earth’s polar regions scheduled
In order to quantify the amount of heat lost to space by the Arctic and Antarctica, NASA plans to launch the first of two research satellites.
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Rocket Lab’s launch site in Mahia, New Zealand is scheduled to launch the shoebox-sized satellite on Saturday at 7:15 p.m. local time (3:15 a.m. ET).
The Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment, or PREFIRE, is a climate science mission that aims to advance scientific knowledge of how Earth’s atmosphere, including clouds, water vapour, and other constituents, traps heat and prevents it from radiating into space.
After 80 years, US World War II submarine wreckage was discovered.
About 80 years after it was sunk by enemy troops, the debris of a US Navy submarine that destroyed the most Japanese warships during World War Two has been discovered in the South China Sea.
The USS Harder was discovered 9,114 metres (3,000 feet) below the surface off the northern Philippine island of Luzon.
The 79 men who made up the crew of the Harder perished in battle on August 29, 1944.
The US Navy’s History and Heritage Command (NHHC) states that during four days during one of its last war patrols, it sunk three Japanese ships and severely damaged two more.
