NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) out.
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Death Toll from Lava Flood in West Sumatra Increases
Flash floods and landslides hit a number of areas of West Sumatra on Saturday, May 11 2024 and Sunday, May 12 2024. This disaster was triggered by heavy rains and the overflowing of rivers, most of which have their headwaters on Mount Marapi. The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) reported that the number of casualties caused by lava floods and landslides in West Sumatra has increased again.
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Kaja Kallas urges EU leaders to respond to Russian aggression in Ukraine
Estonian Prime Minister, Kaja Kallas has certainly been firm and consistently been among those urging an ever-tougher response to Russian aggression in Ukraine and agitation around NATO and European Union borders. Kallas, who grew up under Soviet occupation in Estonia, urged EU leaders to take the Russian threat seriously long before the invasion of Ukraine.
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5,800 people have been killed in Gaza
More than 700 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours. According to the health ministry, early 5,800 people have been killed in Gaza.
