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A next generation long-haul, wide-body commercial aircraft developed by Chinese and Russian engineers was officially named during a ceremony at the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, or COMAC, headquarters in Shanghai on Friday. The new aircraft, which is expected to compete for orders with major global players Boeing and Airbus, was dubbed the 'CR 929' family of jets, with 'CR' signifying the initials of the manufacturing countries.
It's time to dust off that old tin foil hat. Former president John Fitzgerald Kennedy toured around Europe and Germany after World War II had ended as a foreign correspondent. JFK kept a log of his travels and wrote down his thoughts in this exclusive and super rare diary, the only one that the former president ever wrote. The 61-page collection of memoirs, dated from 1945, is going up for auction for the 100th anniversary of JFK's birth, but it's not the sale that's so interesting - it's the content of the journal that might leave you scratching your head. The travelogue contains many interesting thoughts on the devastation of Germany and life under the Russian occupation, but a few lines in particular are causing some commotion. Before the death of Adolf Hitler was confirmed, the JFK speculated that the Fuhrer could have remained alive after the end of the war. Conspiracy theories abound that Hitler didn't actually die in Berlin, but that he escaped via submarine, either to Argentina or even to a secret Nazi underground base in Antarctica. However, evidence for these theories appears to be scant and most historians deny this version of events, being relatively certain that Hitler committed suicide with his love Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker after it became clear that the Nazis had lost the war. Nazi Germany's aggressive expansion was the main initiator of the violence which would engulf the entire globe in what would become known as World War II, or the Great Patriotic War in Russia. Over 60 million people lost their lives in circumstances brought about by the war. We're not sure if JFK was present at the Roswell incident or if his assassination is in any way connected with his writings on Hitler, but it certainly does give some food for thought. All kidding aside, JFK's memoirs are a unique piece of history and detail the thoughts of the future president at the ripe, impressionable age of 28.
Google launched a verification platform dubbed 'CrossCheck' at the French Development Agency's headquarters in Paris on Tuesday, aimed at combatting fake news. The partnership between First Draft and the Google News Lab will work in collaboration with 17 newsrooms, including Agence France-Presse (AFP), BuzzFeed News, France Televisions and Le Monde, among others. The CrossCheck launch comes as France prepares to hold presidential elections this summer.
At a press conference, WHO's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says "we continue to see misinformation on social media and mainstream media about the pandemic accord that countries are now negotiating". Earlier on Twitter, Elon Musk wrote "countries should not cede authority to WHO". Without naming the South African billionaire directly, the WHO chief says "the claim that the accord will cede power to WHO is quite simply false. It's fake news". SOUNDBITE
Jiaxing (China), Jun 18 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Víctor Escribano / Alex Plavevski). The Communist Party of China (CCP) is the second political group with the most members in the world, but its foundation, one hundred years ago, was marked by the secrecy of a first Congress that ended up being held in a small pleasure boat, now elevated to foundational myth.FOOTAGE OF THE PAVILLION COMMEMORATIVE OF THE REVOLUTION (MUSEUM ON THE FOUNDATION OF THE CCP) NEAR LAKE NANHU, IN THE CITY OF JIAXING (PROVINCE OF ZHEJIANG); HUXIN ISLAND IN LAKE NANHU (JIAXING), WHERE THE REPLICA OF THE RED SHIP IS DOCKED; EXTERIOR OF THE 'SHIKUMEN' IN SHANGHÁI WHERE THE I CONGRESS OF THE CCP BEGAN IN 1921, AND THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF THE CCP IN XINTIANDI, SHANGHÁI (NEXT TO THE ABOVE 'SHIKUMEN').
(CNN)US President Joe Biden will rightly spend his first days in office addressing the myriad domestic crises that he has inherited from his predecessor, Donald Trump. However, the transfer of power in the most powerful elected office in the world usually means a change in foreign policy, too. And if President Biden's inaugural address is anything to go by, the global focus for the next four years will chiefly be to restore the world's trust in America after the chaotic foreign policy of the one-term Trump administration.
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