Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams Nasa astronaut Sunita Williams, currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS), is preparing to vote in the US presidential election while orbiting Earth, approximately 400 km above its surface.Astronauts unable to reach their polling stations can still participate in elections from space. Similar to how people on Earth use…
Sri Lanka imposed a night curfew across the country on Saturday despite a peaceful presidential election that is effectively a referendum on an unpopular IMF bailout. Police announced the eight-hour curfew shortly after the independent Election Commission said Saturday’s poll was the most peaceful in the country’s electoral history. President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is facing…
Sri Lanka’s Marxist politician Anura Kumara Dissanayaka took an early lead in Saturday’s presidential election during the counting of postal ballots, official results showed. Dissanayaka had 60.21% of the 164,000 votes counted, out of just over 700,000. Public servants involved in conducting the election are entitled to post their ballots, which are the first to…
The United States plans to accuse Russia on Wednesday of a campaign to influence the 2024 presidential election using online platforms to target American voters with disinformation, according to CNN. Russian state media network RT will be a focus of the announcement, CNN reported, citing six sources familiar with the matter. The news comes just…
