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Washington (AFP) - Le premier vol spatial avec équipage du vaisseau Starliner de Boeing, déjà maintes fois reporté, s'apprête à décoller le 1er juin sans avoir réparé une fuite d'hélium détectée sur le vaisseau, ont annoncé l'entreprise américaine et la Nasa vendredi. Le lancement de cette mission vers la Station spatiale internationale (ISS), cruciale pour Boeing et attendue depuis des années, a déjà été reporté de nombreuses fois. Le décollage avait été annulé au dernier moment le 6 mai -- alors que les deux astronautes formant l'équipage étaient déjà installés à bord -- à cause d'un problèm...
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Washington (AFP) - Boeing is set to launch its first crewed space mission in June without fixing a small helium gas leak on its troubled Starliner spaceship, officials said Friday. The vessel, under development since 2010, has been plagued by technical problems and has yet to fulfill its purpose of ferrying astronauts to the International Space Station, allowing Boeing's rival SpaceX to zoom ahead with its Crew Dragon capsule. Starliner was supposed to finally fly astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the orbital outpost on May 6, but the mission was scrubbed hours before lift-off aft...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Google on Friday said it is taking "swift action" to improve AI summaries of search results, after users mocked blunders like Barack Obama being the first Muslim US president. Google users took to social media to lampoon erroneous "AI Overview" responses to queries such as whether people should eat stones or stare into the sun, or how many Muslim US presidents there have been. "Many of the examples we've seen have been uncommon queries, and we've also seen examples that were doctored or that we couldn't reproduce," a Google spokesperson said in response to an AFP inquiry....
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Washington (AFP) - From testy exchanges with reporters to outright silence, the pressure of Joe Biden's US presidential election battle with Donald Trump appears to be straining his relationship with the media. While the 81-year-old Biden has never shown his predecessor's outright hostility to journalists, the Democrat has recently appeared to lose his cool with the press. His increasing irritability coincides with a recent rash of polls showing him trailing his scandal-tainted Republican rival with less than six months until the November 5 vote. The most recent example was a grumpy exchange w...
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New York (AFP) - Morgan Spurlock, the acclaimed filmmaker behind the hit 2004 documentary "Super Size Me," has died aged 53 of complications from cancer, his family announced Friday. Spurlock passed away in New York on Thursday "surrounded by family and friends," according to a statement released through his publicist. "Morgan gave so much through his art, ideas, and generosity. The world has lost a true creative genius and a special man," his brother Craig Spurlock was quoted as saying in the statement. "Super Size Me," which was nominated for an Oscar for best documentary feature, followed ...
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Washington (AFP) - Starship, the world's most powerful rocket, is set for its next test flight on June 5, SpaceX announced on Friday. The launch window from the company's Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas opens at 7:00 am local time (1200 GMT), pending regulatory approval. It will be the fourth test for the sleek mega rocket, which is vital to NASA's plans for landing astronauts on the Moon later this decade, and to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's hopes of eventually colonizing Mars. Three previous attempts have ended in the Starship's destruction, all part of what the company says is an acceptable cost in...
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Washington (AFP) - A diplomatic upgrade and a surprise appearance by Barack Obama: US President Joe Biden pulled out the stops as he hosted Kenyan counterpart William Ruto for a lavish state visit aimed at competing with Russia and China for influence in Africa. At a gala dinner in a large pavilion set up on the White House lawn, Biden praised "the belief in freedom, democracy, dignity and equality" that he shared with Ruto, the first African leader to receive a Washington state visit in 15 years. Biden matched pomp with a string of deals on security, climate and debt -- and delivered an Irish...
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Washington (AFP) - Ukrainian opera singer Yurii Ivaskevych traded his tuxedo for military fatigues to fight the Russian invasion. When he lost his leg in a mine explosion last year, music called him again. Ivaskevych, 51, is a member of Cultural Forces, a recently created Ukrainian military unit that consists of professional musicians who perform for soldiers on the front lines to lift their spirits and relieve them, if only briefly, of the horrors of war. "With us, they can cast their mind back to their past lives even for an hour -- something good, some positive emotions," Ivaskevych, whose ...
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Havana (AFP) - Maria Paez feels relieved after receiving a package of food items including eggs, ham, and yogurt from her children in Miami -- bought online and shipped to Havana. These days, with a severe economic crisis and food shortages, Cubans abroad increasingly prefer to send care packages to family back home, rather than cash transfers. "Receiving these types of products is a relief for us" and, "in terms of spending money, the savings are substantial," Paez, a 59-year-old mathematics graduate told AFP. "Receiving eggs is very important" because "it is a guaranteed breakfast," added Pa...
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New York (AFP) - Donald Trump rolled the dice on a campaign stop in deepest Democratic New York Thursday seeking to woo Black and Latino voters whose support for Joe Biden has shown signs of faltering. The event, in the Bronx where the Republican was trounced in 2020, follows a trend of Trump sorties into traditionally liberal states, most recently in New Jersey and Minnesota. But his speech in the South Bronx was more about signaling that he can draw large crowds among the Hispanic and African-American coalition seen as crucial to Biden's hopes of retaining the White House. Though the crowd w...
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