WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) – The U.S. Congress on Thursday passed a $19 billion bill authorizing NASA to launch an additional shuttle mission as well as to develop a heavy-lift vehicle, despite 1,200 shuttle worker layoffs that are expected on Friday, CNN reported. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the NASA Re-authorization Act which now [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday praised the decision by the UN Human Rights Council to form a Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Assembly and Association, the first of its kind. “This unprecedented action is a good first step in defending a fundamental freedom enshrined in the Universal [...]
QUITO, ECUADOR (BNO NEWS) – Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa arrived on Thursday night at the presidential palace after being rescued from a Quito hospital where he was being held by police officers protesting a new law that eliminated benefits for military members and police officers. Policemen were demanding that the government of Correa reinstate the [...]
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday congratulated Guinea for their 52nd anniversary of independence next Saturday. “On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I congratulate the people of Guinea on the occasion of your 52nd national day this October 2,” Clinton said. On October 2, 1958, Guinea, [...]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Thursday announced a new grant program for projects related to the development and expansion of commercial space transportation infrastructure. The Space Transportation Infrastructure Matching Grants will be awarded to four projects in Alaska, California, Florida and New Mexico. These funds represent the first-ever spaceport grants for enhancing commercial space [...]
The European Union Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) on Thursday announced the conviction of eleven Somali men accused of acts of piracy in the third case in Kenya. The sentence was delivered on Wednesday at the Mombasa Law Courts in Kenya. The eleven pirates were sentenced to five years in prison each. The conviction stemmed from [...]
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs on Thursday announced a $9.5 million competitive grant solicitation seeking applications from qualified organizations to combat the worst forms of child labor in the cotton and other agriculture sectors in Egypt. The department said applicants should focus on five goals for combating child labor: the [...]
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal in a statement emphasized that there is limited time left for peaceful two-state solution, regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia said Thursday. The official statement of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the General Debate of the Sixty-Fifth Session of the United Nations was distributed [...]
Fisher-Price on Thursday issued a voluntary recall for over 11 million toddler tricycles due to the risk of injuries, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said. Fisher-Price Inc., of East Aurora, New York, along with CPSC has been aware of 10 reports of incidents resulting in injury in the use of the company’s Trikes [...]
Actor and 1950s Hollywood star Tony Curtis late Wednesday night died at age 85 of a heart attack in his home near Las Vegas after suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, local media said Thursday. Curtis, born to Hungarian immigrants in the Bronx, New York, may have been popularly known through his comic performances in [...]
