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1. Politics Blog: AKEL, Odysseas and political satire

AKEL is organizing a protest outside the Presidential Palace on Sunday, demonstrating against the dismissal of Odysseas Michaelides. Hearing this brought back memories of the protests outside the Presidential Palace after the Mari incident....

2. Asian elephant receives first-ever mRNA vaccine for deadly virus

Tess, a 40-year-old Asian elephant at the Houston Zoo, has become the first to receive an mRNA vaccine targeting the lethal elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV). ...

3. Who bears responsibility for the energy transition?

Chris Angelides serves as the Managing Director in the oil and gas consulting division of Ernst & Young LLP in Houston....

4. Boeing's engine cowling detaches mid-takeoff, strikes wing

US airline regulators have launched an investigation after an engine cowling on a Boeing plane fell off during takeoff and struck the wing flap, the latest in a series of safety problems facing the aircraft manufacturer. ...

5. US lander lands on moon, giant leap for humanity

In a groundbreaking achievement, the Odysseus lander, owned by Intuitive Machines, successfully landed on the moon's surface, marking the first privately owned craft to accomplish this feat....

6. Coast guard finds dog trapped in shipping container

In a heartwarming turn of events, a routine inspection at the Port of Houston led to the rescue of a dog trapped inside a shipping container for at least eight days, without food or water. ...

7. A decade ago, Amazon launching drones for parcel deliveries

Exactly a decade ago, Amazon revealed a program that aimed to revolutionize shopping and shipping. Drones launched from a central hub would waft through the skies delivering just about everything anyone could need....

8. World-famous artist Botero breathes his last at 91

Fernando Botero, the Colombian whose voluptuous pictures and sculptures of overstuffed generals, bishops, prostitutes, housewives and other products of his whimsical imagination made him one of the world’s best-known artists, died Friday in Monaco. He was 91....

9. Study uncovers 117,000-year human ancestor bottleneck

A team of scientists from the United States, Italy, and China may have finally explained a large gap in the African and Eurasian fossil record....

10. Taylor Swift's tour spreads goodwill to food banks

Economists told CNN recently that Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is becoming such a massive phenomenon that it’s having demonstrable impacts on the US economy at large, but it’s not only stadium venues, record labels, and ticket vendors benefiting....

11. Scientists uncover ultra-strong lightweight material

Galvorn is stronger than steel, lighter than aluminum, and has the conductivity of copper, according to an article on LinkedIn....

12. Award-winning director Nick Broomfield talks of his carefree life in Nicosia

Nick Broomfield, now 74, is revered among documentary professionals in the United Kingdom and beyond. ...

13. New cancer therapy completely destroys advanced ovarian and colorectal tumors in 6 days

A new cancer therapy has completely destroyed advanced ovarian and bowel tumors in just six days....

14. Study: Certain blood types may be more or less vulnerable to covid

Blood type doesn’t affect much in our daily lives. In fact, most people don’t even know whether they’re Type A, B, AB, or O. But the seemingly-banal detail might be a factor in who comes under the thumb of 2020’s worldwide tyrant—that is, coronavirus....

15. Ukraine-Russia: Anti-war protests around the world

Thousands of people have taken to public squares and Russian embassies across the globe to protest President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine....

16. Op-ed: The far-reaching benefits of mRNA technology

The mRNA platform is a tantalizingly simple and transformative technology, scaling the scope of targeting diseases in ways that were previously unimaginable....

17. Airlines worldwide rush to change flights over US 5G problem

Airlines across the world, including the long-haul carrier Emirates, rushed Wednesday to cancel or change flights heading into the U.S. over an ongoing dispute about the rollout of 5G mobile phone technology near American airports....

18. SpaceX delivers two NASA astronauts to ISS

Nearly 24 hours after launching from Florida, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule delivered NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station on Sunday, marking the first US space capsule to do so with a crew since 2011...

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20. ExxonMobil eyes Israel gas bid

21. Lakkotrypis travels to Houston

22. Greek village ‘lost for words’ over news of Texan shooter

The family of the Texan teen gunman were “quiet, peaceable people” who never raised eyebrows in the Greek village where his father spent his youth...

23. Eight to ten dead in Texas high school shooting

At least eight people were killed on Friday in a shooting at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, and officers had taken into custody a student who was suspected of carrying out the attack...

24. President offers condolences on the passing of Barbara Bush

A private funeral for former U.S. first lady Barbara Bush, the only American woman to see her husband and son both sworn in as president, will be held on Saturday...