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The full Moon rises in the sky to the right of the Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket on July 2014, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. | Aubrey Gemignani/NASA via Getty Images “For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon — We did that […]

Get short URL S-400 missile air defence systems in central Moscow, Russia April 29, 2019. © REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva S-400 anti-air missile systems will begin to arrive in Turkey in two months, says the head of Russian state defense corporation Rostec, despite Washington warning Ankara that the deal could threaten their partnership. “We will begin delivery […]

Sudan’s pro-democracy leaders have vowed to continue civil disobedience [Reuters] Main alliance of opposition groups and protesters says it is open to Abiy Ahmed as mediator under certain conditions. Sudan‘s main alliance of opposition groups and protesters says it accepts Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as a mediator in their political deadlock with the Transitional […]

World leaders gathered for an event to commemorate 75 years since the Normandy landings in Portsmouth on Wednesday. Photo: AFP World leaders including President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron will attend ceremonies Thursday on the beaches of Normandy, where 75 years ago Allied troops landed to push Nazi forces out of France. […]

Getty Images Social media was boiling on Monday over one question: Did President Donald Trump fistbump Queen Elizabeth II when they shook hands at Buckingham Palace? News photographs made it look as if he did, prompting some to claim on Twitter that the president was not showing the proper respect for Britain’s monarch, but really […]

At least 13 people have been killed after security forces stormed a protest camp in the Sudanese capital  Khartoum and fired live ammunition to break up weeks-long sit-in. The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors, a medical group linked to protesters, said at least 13 people were killed and several wounded in the Monday morning raid, which was still in progress. […]

Donald and Melania Trump arrive at Stansted Airport ahead of a three-day visit. Credit: PA US President Donald Trump has arrived on Air Force One in the UK for a three-day state visit, before an overnight stay in Ireland. After arriving at Stansted Airport, Mr Trump and wife Melania were met by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently inspected building plans for the northwestern Jagang province’s capital Kanggye and border town Manpho, stressing problems and calling for major construction overhauls, state media reported Saturday. In an article carried in the party-run daily Rodong Sinmun alongside inspections of various machinery factories in Jagang, Kim criticized the architectural […]

MSC cruise ship loses control and crashes against a smaller tourist boat at the San Basilio dock in Venice, Italy. (Reuters Photo) MSC cruise ship loses control and crashes against a smaller tourist boat at the San Basilio dock in Venice, Italy. (Reuters Photo) A towering, out-of-control cruise ship rammed into a dock and a […]

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the United States needs to abide by the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran and stop its “economic war” as the prerequisite for talks. “America has started an economic war against our people…this should stop. I mean the politics of bullying, imposed politics and the policy of economic terrorism against […]