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On Sunday, according to CBS News around 60,000 people from over 200 schools participated in the 59th annual Celebrate Israel Parade on Fifth Avenue in New York City. The parade was reported to have had significant security and road closures due to concerns over attempts to cause disruption by protestors. The parade was said to have focused on the Israeli civilian hostages taken and held in Gaza since the October 7 incursion by Hamas, recognized by the United States and the European Union as a terrorist organization. It was reported to have b

On Sunday, the June National Rail timetable change went into effect, seeing changes to services across the rail network in Great Britain, including the reopening of passenger service along the 10 kilometre (6.2 mi) Levenmouth Rail Link between Leven, Fife and Thornton North Junction for the first time since the service's withdrawal in 1969. Two new stations at Leven and Cameron Bridge were built, now seeing an hourly service to Edinburgh via Kirkcaldy, operated by ScotRail. The redevelopment, delivered by Network Rail, cost £116 million (US$1

On May 17, Russian Wikinews attended one of the latest cultural events in Crimea. The Museum of Simferopol History, located on Alexander Pushkin Street in the center of the Crimean capital, has opened a new exhibition, unique of its kind. The exhibition of CDs of ethnic music of the peoples of the world called ; includes about one hundred factory-made exhibits from the personal collection of Simferopol philophonist — collector of musical recordings — and traveler Viktor Pinchuk. Most publications are difficult to buy in the Russian Federation

On Sunday, Hamas fired rockets from Rafah at Israeli civilians in the city of Tel Aviv. Israeli officials reported many of the rockets were shot down. Two civilians in Herzliya were wounded and a civilian home was damaged due to shrapnel from the rockets. Israeli Defense Forces later in the day destroyed a rocket launcher used in the attacks. This is not the first time Hamas and allied forces, such as Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iran, and others, have fired rockets at civilians into Israel. In a recent eleven day span, more than 4,300 rockets were

In a podcast published on Friday, Mark Zuckerberg reiterated industry concerns that energy supply would soon become the major challenge to the further development of artificial intelligence (AI). These concerns echoed Elon Musk's warning from last month, that AI could exceed energy capacity as early as next year. According to Musk, AI technology is advancing at an exponential rate; by a factor of ten every six months. That rate of growth has reached a point where it is straining both chip manufacturing capacity and energy capacity. Big tech co

Roughly 20 environmental protesters were arrested at a Massachusetts airport on Saturday morning. Protesters supporting Extinction Rebellion crossed into a security area and were arrested. Some of the protesters breached a security perimeter on a tarmac at Hanscom Field Airport in Bedford, Massachusetts. The arrested protesters could face trespassing and disorderly conduct charges. The Massachusetts Port Authority said the airport had to temporarily shut down for security reasons. Extinction Rebellion were protesting the expansion of 17 new pr

Russian Wikinews attended Russian travel writer Viktor Pinchuk's April 8 presentation at the Crimean Republican Library for Youth in Simferopol, on his book . “Holiday of Wandering Mzungu” is a travelogue full of adventures, describing one of the author’s solo expeditions, the route of which began with the deportation of a Russian citizen by the authorities of an island dwarf state, and ended with a robbery, a result of which all the photographic material shot over six months was lost. Potential readers, among whom different age categories we

Armed gunmen killed more than 133 people and injured more than 145, including children, at a music concert at Crocus City Hall, Krasnogorsk, near Moscow, Russia on Friday evening. Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K or IS-KP) released a statement claiming its members were responsible for "killing and wounding hundreds and causing great destruction to the place" on their Telegram channel. Some of the attackers threw explosives, which caused a large fire in the complex. The fire grew out of control, trapping people inside and ultimately lead

On February 16, 2024, Russian Wikinews attended Russian photographer Viktor Pinchuk's last exhibition in Sevastopol, Crimea. The project was conceived and implemented in a virtual format; this is already the second experience of using the new method by a Crimean resident. The organizer was the Sevastopol Center for Culture and Arts. The exhibition, which included material collected over almost twenty years of travel and long expeditions around the planet, was called which quite accurately reflects its content. Scenes from the life of aborigi

On January 22, Russian Wikinews attended a talk by Russian travel writer Viktor Pinchuk in Verkhorechye village, located 18 kilometers from Bakhchysarai, Crimea on his 2008 expedition to the Near East, where the main purpose was to visit Afghanistan. The event was organized with the assistance of the Crimean branch of the Russian Geographical Society. The traveler spoke about his adventures, showed photographs (including those present at the exhibition “Afghanistan, 2008”), short videos and CDs containing cultural music from Asian countries (w

Russian Wikinews attended Russian travel writer Viktor Pinchuk's December 18 presentation at the mountain club in Yalta, Crimea on results of a solo expedition to Latin America and his book . The event was organized by Yalta representatives of the Russian Geographical Society. Pinchuk described stops in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, during which he practiced hobo tourism. The evening dialogue "From Rio Gallegos to Chihuahua" took place in a relaxed atmosphere, whe

Yesterday, a capsule from NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft containing samples from the asteroid Bennu arrived in the US city of Houston, Texas. The capsule was en route to the Johnson Space Center (JSC) after landing in the Utah Test and Training Range the day before. This was NASA's first asteroid sample return. As of Sunday, the capsule was in a cleanroom with the sample container undergoing a nitrogen purge, in which nitrogen is pumped into a container,