A U.N. official and another humanitarian worker said the Israeli military had designated a highly insecure route known to have looters. The military also set a short window for trucks to come to Kerem Shalom and rejected a number of individual truck drivers, forcing last-minute replacements, they said. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.
for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas atLES SABLES D’OLONNE, France (AP) — When aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard
spearheaded a much-hyped flight around the world in a plane powered by sunlight, it raised awareness about climate change but held little promise of revolutionizing air travel.Now, the 66-year-old Swiss adventurer behindis aiming higher, in hopes of heading toward greener commercial flight than that of fossil fuel-powered planes today — this time using super-cold liquid hydrogen.
From a workshop on France’s Atlantic coast, Piccard and partners are ramping up Climate Impulse, a project started last February to fly a two-seater plane around the globe nonstop over nine days fueled by what’s known as green hydrogen. That’s hydrogen split out of water molecules using renewable electricity through a process called electrolysis.The Climate Impulse team, whose backers include Airbus and a science incubator called Syensqo (pronounced “science-co”) born from Belgian pharmaceuticals company Solvay, presented its first-year progress to reporters Thursday in Les Sables d’Olonne, an oceanside town better known as host to the Vendee Globe round-the-world sailing race.
The Climate Impulse, a plane powered by liquid hydrogen, is displayed in a hangar in Les Sables d’Olonne, France on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Yohan Bonnet)
The Climate Impulse, a plane powered by liquid hydrogen, is displayed in a hangar in Les Sables d’Olonne, France on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Yohan Bonnet)Within days of the interview, Andrew
in 2022 for an undisclosed sum, agreeing to make a “substantial donation” to her survivors’ organization. A statement filed in court said that the prince acknowledged Epstein was a sex trafficker and Giuffre “an established victim of abuse.”She also filed, and in at least some cases settled, lawsuits against Epstein and others connected to him. In one case, she
against a prominent U.S. attorney, saying she might have erred in identifying him as one of the men to whom Epstein supplied her.of holding him criminally accountable.