By Daniel Apai On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA’s new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, into orbit. Exoplanets are worlds that orbit other stars. They are very difficult to observe because – seen from Earth – they appear as extremely faint dots right next
Somalia’s Defense Minister Ahmed Moalim Fiqi has escalated his government’s rhetoric over the growing rapprochement between Israel and Somaliland, claiming that Mogadishu possesses confirmed information about an Israeli plan to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Somaliland. The minister, however, provided no public evidence or documentation to support the allegation, while authorities in Hargeisa have repeatedly
By Abdoulaye Djouma Diallo Les électeurs béninois étaient appelés aux urnes le dimanche 11 janvier 2026 pour des élections législatives et municipales couplées, organisées par la Commission électorale nationale autonome (CENA). Ces élections doivent permettre le renouvellement des 109 députés de l’Assemblée nationale, désormais élus pour un mandat de sept ans, à la suite de
At least three people were killed and more than 4,000 cattle were stolen in a raid in Warrap state, with authorities blaming armed youth from a neighboring county, officials said Sunday. The attack occurred Thursday and Friday in the Alabek and Lietnhom areas of Gogrial East County, according to Mamer Bath, Warrap State’s minister of
By Quinn Glabicki On Sunday afternoon, hundreds of people marched to ICE’s Pittsburgh field office on the South Side to protest recent shootings involving federal immigration agents. The march followed the killing of an American citizen by a federal agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday and, a day later, the shooting of two Venezuelan nationals in Portland. The shootings spurred
