BEIRUT: Hezbollah’s deputy leader has warned Israel that a full-scale war on Lebanon would cause “large losses on both sides” and displace hundreds of thousands of more Israelis in the country’s north. Naim Qassem’s comments on Saturday came as Israel’s Channel 13 reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “on the verge” of launching […]
WASHINGTON: The Polaris Dawn mission, a landmark journey in private space exploration, concluded early Sunday with a successful splashdown off the coast of Dry Tortugas, Florida, at approximately 1:06 pm IST. This mission marked several historic milestones, including the highest altitude ever reached by a crewed spacecraft since 1972 and the first commercial spacewalk. Launched […]
MOSCOW: Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 206 prisoners of war, said the Russian Defence Ministry. “A total of 103 Russian servicemen who were taken prisoner in Kursk region have been released. In exchange, 103 Ukrainian prisoners of war have been transferred,” Russian Defence Ministry said on Saturday in a statement. All the exchanged Russian soldiers […]
NEW DELHI: Nasa is spearheading efforts to create a standardized time system for the Moon, following a White House policy directive issued in April. The agency’s Space Communication and Navigation (SCaN) program is leading this initiative to develop Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC), which will be crucial for future lunar exploration and potentially scalable to other […]
TEHRAN: Iran has successfully sent into orbit the domestically-developed Chamran 1 research satellite, registering another impressive stride in the country’s space program. In the early hours of Saturday, the satellite was put into orbit at an altitude of 550 kilometers (341 miles) above the Earth’s surface onboard a homegrown Qaem-100 space launch vehicle (SLV). Qaem-100 […]
Scientists say that while most fires are set by humans, the recent hot and dry conditions being driven by climate change are helping the fires spread more quickly. SAO PAULO: South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest through the world’s largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia, breaking a previous record […]
WASHINGTON: The third edition of the INDUS-X Summit concluded in the United States, marking a progress in the advancement of a joint defence innovation ecosystem in the two countries. Held on 9-10 September, the summit was a landmark event jointly organised by the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) and Stanford University. During the summit, a […]
WARSAW: A group of Hungarian lawmakers and representatives of NGOs met on Wednesday on a dried-out sandbank of the country’s second river after the Danube to highlight the severe impact of a drought in July and August that damaged key crops. Water levels in the Tisza river dropped sharply after repeated heatwaves which also hit […]
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees says six of its employees are among the at least 18 people killed in a recent Israeli aerial assault on a school in the central Gaza Strip. In a statement released on Thursday, UNRWA said Wednesday’s Israeli airstrikes targeting the UN-run al-Jaouni school […]
KREMLIN: The Kremlin said on Wednesday it did not like the way Vladimir Putin’s name was bandied around in the US presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, and urged the candidates to stop dragging him into their political fight. The Russian President’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, was speaking a week after Putin said in […]