In offering electric air taxi services in Japan, Archer Aviation (NYSE:ACHR) has teamed with Soracle Corporation, a joint venture between Japan Airlines and Sumitomo Corporation. Archer’s Midnight aircraft is meant to be used by Soracle to offer urban air mobility in high-traffic cities where ground transit is limited because of geography or

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s major cities including Abuja, Lagos and Kano suffered blackouts Thursday as the country’s electricity grid collapsed in the tenth such outage to hit the power system this year. A “partial disturbance of the system” caused the latest round of blackouts, the Transmission Company of Nigeria said in a stateme

The Iran-backed Hezbollah militia launched dozens of rockets from Lebanon at targets in northern Israel on Thursday, triggering air raid alarms in Haifa and other areas. Hezbollah confirmed that it was behind the attacks. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) counted around 50 projectiles crossing the border. Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue servic

The death toll from the devastating storms and flooding that struck eastern and southern Spain more than a week ago has risen to 219 as rescue workers continue their search for victims, according to Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska. Speaking to radio broadcaster Cadena Ser on Wednesday evening, Grande-Marlaska said that two more bodies ha

Following the breakdown of the centre-left coalition in Berlin, the opposition far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is demanding that Chancellor Olaf Scholz immediately seek a vote of confidence in the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag. AfD co-leader Alice Weidel said after a special meeting of the AfD parliamentary group in Berlin