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Le documentaire revient sur les premiers pilotes, ingénieurs et scientifiques noirs à devenir astronautes dans le cadre de la course à l'espace.
Paris, Jun 4 (EFE) .- (Camera: Mario García Sánchez) "If Europe does not continue to invest money, if it is not at the forefront of innovation, we will lose that great race for space to China and the US." Josef Aschbacher, ESA's director general since last March, alerted in an interview with EFE.FOOTAGE OF THE INTERVIEW WITH ASCHBACHER
(CNN) Sen. Kamala Harris broke barriers as America's first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president-elect. But after her exit in January to join the Biden administration, there will be no Black women in the Senate. Harris's departure left lawmakers and advocates urging California Gov. Gavin Newsom to choose a Black woman to replace her due to a lack of diversity in the chamber. And while his appointment on Tuesday of Secretary of State Alex Padilla as California's first Latino senator was historic, it comes with the reality that the 117th Congress will have no Black women in the upper chamber.
Hollis Johnson/Business Insider On Friday, McDonald's filed a motion to dismiss a $1 billion racial-discrimination case filed by Black former franchisees. McDonald's legal counsel, former US attorney general Loretta Lynch, said in a statement that "there are legal deficiencies in the complaint that merit dismissal at this early stage." Black former franchisees sued McDonald's in late August, alleging they were forced to close or sell more than 200 locations due to "systematic and covert racial discrimination" at the fast-food giant.
China launches a rover to Mars on Thursday, a journey coinciding with a similar US mission as the powers take their rivalry into deep space. The two countries are taking advantage of a period when Earth and Mars are favourably aligned for a short journey, with the US spacecraft due to lift off on July 30. IMAGES
Atlanta, Jun 17 (EFE).- Georgia authorities on Wednesday filed murder charges against the police officer who shot 27-year-old African American Rayshard Brooks to death at a Wendy's restaurant last weekend, a case that has intensified the wave of outrage over police brutality and killings in the US.Garrett Rolfe, a white 27-year-old police officer, was charged with 11 counts in all - including felony murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon - and if found guilty he could face life in prison or the death penalty, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced at a press conference."We've concluded at the time that Mr. Brooks was shot that he did not pose an immediate threat of death" to the two officers, he said.(Camera: ERIK LESSER)FOOTAGE SHOWS THE PRESS CONFERENCE AT WHICH FULTON COUNTY ATTORNEY PAUL L. HOWARD JR. ANNOUNCED CHARGES AGAINST THE ATLANTA POLICE AND A PROTEST IN FAVOR OF RACIAL JUSTICE IN THE SURROUNDINGS OF THE COURT.
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