Drone Strikes Emerge as Deadly Threat to Journalists, UNESCO Warns Kampala, Uganda | URN | The growing use of unmanned aerial technology in conflict zones has emerged as a deadly new threat to journalists, with drone strikes killing 50 media workers in 2024 and 2025, according to a …
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CHENGDU | Xinhua | Express delivery now reaches more than 95 percent of China’s administrative villages. In some rural areas, however, getting a parcel to the village requires more than just one mode of transport. In Zizhong County in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, for example, drones are being used on …
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CHENGDU | Xinhua | When Ngorcog was a child growing up on the vast grasslands of Sichuan Province in southwest China, she never imagined that barley and fruit would one day “fall from the sky.” For the young Tibetan woman, cargo transport used to rely on horses and …
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COMMENT | PATRICK OYULU | Somewhere in Plymouth, England, Rolls-Royce dipped a Phantom into a swimming pool to celebrate 100 years of the Rolls-Royce Phantom. Not because the driver confused it for a landing site at Ggaba Beach. It was intentional. A luxury brand creating a moment. A story. A …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN | The eve of President-elect Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s swearing-in ceremony was marked by a brief blend of technological spectacle and delays as a drone show delivered a “thank you” message across parts of Kampala. The National Resistance Movement Secretariat had heavily promoted the event, dubbed the …
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Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In the Albertine Graben, where commercial oil production is poised to begin, drones are taking flight, not to deliver packages or capture aerial photos, but to fight climate change. These high-tech eyes in the sky are at the forefront of the country’s strategy to …
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MOSCOW | Xinhua) | Russian air defense shot down 164 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday. According to the ministry, 39 drones were destroyed over the Black Sea and 32 over southern Russia’s Krasnodar region. The drone attacks caused damage to port infrastructure and an apartment building …
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OSLO | Xinhua | Denmark will prohibit all civilian drone flights nationwide from Monday to Friday to safeguard a European Union (EU) leaders’ meeting in Copenhagen and reduce the burden on police amid a surge in suspicious drone sightings, the Danish government said Sunday. The temporary ban will run from …
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MOSCOW | Xinhua | The Russian Foreign Ministry official responsible for European Union affairs has criticized the bloc for its “hysteria” over unidentified drones entering its territory, saying the sole aim is to justify an increase in military spending, according to the state-owned RIA Novosti news agency on Saturday. …
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Across the nation, the fruits of a comprehensive agriculture strategy are now ripening. Last year, China’s grain output exceeded 700 million tonnes for the first time BEIJING | Xinhua | The morning news speaks of continuous rainfall, but in the fields of Liaoning Province in northeast China, Zhao Yuguo is …
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