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An Isro graphic of the lander and rover on the MoonImage source, ISRO
Chandrayaan-3: India's Moon lander aims for historic lunar south pole landing
DELHI — India is looking to make history on Wednesday with its third lunar mission set to land on the Moon.If Chandrayaan-3 is successful, India will be the first country to land near the Moon's little-explored south pole.One of its major goals is to hunt for water-based ice, which scientists say could support human habitation on the Moon in future.India's attempt comes just days after Russia's Luna-25 crashed while trying to touch down in the same region.If successful, it will also be only the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon — the US, the former Soviet Union and China have all landed near the equator.India's attempt to land its Chandrayaan-2 mission near the south pole in 2019 was unsuccessful — it crashed into the lunar surface.So all eyes are...
August 23, 2023

Chandrayaan-3: India's Moon lander aims for historic lunar south pole landing

Jet ski used to illegally enter South Korea. — courtesy South Korea Coast Guard/AFP
'Chinese activist Kwon Pyong' flees to South Korea on jet ski
SEOUL — A man believed to be a Chinese rights activist has been arrested in South Korea after an apparent attempt to flee there on a jet ski.The country's coast guard said the man had traveled about 300km (186 miles) across the Yellow Sea using binoculars and a compass, but then got stuck.Local reports named him as Kwon Pyong, a critic of President Xi Jinping, but his identity has not been verified. The Chinese embassy in Seoul declined to comment.In recent years, Beijing has increased its use of exit bans at airports and other legal border crossings in order to block activists from leaving Chinese territory.Many pro-Beijing countries in south-east Asia will no longer harbor asylum seekers, adding to the difficulties faced by dissidents hoping to flee.Last month, the noted Chinese...
August 23, 2023

'Chinese activist Kwon Pyong' flees to South Korea on jet ski

The cable car had made multiple trips on Tuesday before the cable snapped.— courtesy Office of Deputy Commissioner of Battagram
All 8 people rescued from stranded cable car in Pakistan after 14-hour ordeal
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a 14-hour ordeal, all eight people, including six children and two adults, who were stranded on a cable car dangling hundreds of feet over a valley in northwest Pakistan have been rescued, the country’s caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar said in a statement.“Relieved to know that Alhamdolillah all the kids have been successfully and safely rescued. Great team work by the military, rescue departments, district administration as well as the local people,” he said in the statement posted on X, formerly called Twitter.The rescue began on Tuesday morning local time after six children and two teachers were traveling to school in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa when one of the gondola’s cables snapped, leaving them stuck some 900 feet above a...
August 22, 2023

All 8 people rescued from stranded cable car in Pakistan after 14-hour ordeal

Helicopters have been sent to rescue eight people trapped in cable car over a valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Rescue under way for eight people trapped in Pakistan cable car
ISLAMABAD — A rescue is under way in Pakistan for eight people -- including six children -- trapped in a cable car dangling over a valley in the country's north-west.The children were making their way to school when one of the cables snapped, leaving the car hanging 274m (900 ft) above ground, officials said.Pakistan's acting PM has ordered rescuers to attend the "really alarming" incident in Battagram.Military helicopters have reached the car but the rescue's status is unclear.The eight passengers were trapped for more than four hours before the first helicopter arrived, local media outlet Dawn.com reported. The incident happened at around 07:00 local time (02:00 GMT) on Tuesday."For God's sake help us," Gulfraz, a man stuck in the cable car, told...
August 22, 2023

Rescue under way for eight people trapped in Pakistan cable car

Decommissioning work for the Fukushima power plant will take four decades
Fukushima disaster: Japan to release treated wastewater in 48 hours
TOKYO — Japan will start releasing treated wastewater from the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, despite opposition from its neighbors.The decision comes weeks after the UN's nuclear watchdog approved the plan.Some 1.34 million tonnes of water — enough to fill 500 Olympic-size pools — have accumulated since the 2011 tsunami destroyed the plant.The water will be released over 30 years after being filtered and diluted.Authorities will request for the plant's operator to "promptly prepare" for the disposal to start on 24 Aug if weather and sea conditions are appropriate, Japan's prime minister Fumio Kishida said after a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.Kishida had visited the plant on Sunday, prompting speculation that the release...
August 22, 2023

Fukushima disaster: Japan to release treated wastewater in 48 hours

Xi Jinping
Beset by domestic economic woes, China’s Xi visits South Africa
BEIJING — Chinese leader Xi Jinping heads to South Africa Monday on a trip intended to bolster Beijing’s influence among developing and emerging nations, as ties with the United States remain deeply strained and economic troubles bubble up at home.The three-day state visit, which also includes a summit with leaders of the BRICS emerging economies, is only Xi’s second international trip this year – a sharp contrast to his globe-trotting days of diplomacy before the coronavirus pandemic.The Chinese leader last left the country in March to meet his “dear friend” Vladimir Putin in Moscow, where the two authoritarian strongmen reaffirmed their strategic alignment against the US and touted their vision for a new world order no longer dominated by the West.For Xi, the first in-person...
August 21, 2023

Beset by domestic economic woes, China’s Xi visits South Africa

Pakistan President Arif Alvi
Pakistan president denies approving laws giving military more power
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's President Arif Alvi denied approving two controversial bills which further enhance the military's powers.In a post on X (formerly known as Twitter) on Sunday, he said he returned the bills unsigned but his staff "undermined my will".The two laws make it an offense to reveal the identities of military intelligence officers and also propose jail terms for defaming the army.Alvi's statement could call the legality of the two laws into question.However, Pakistan's interim law minister Ahmed Irfan Aslam told reporters that under the constitution, the president had the option of either giving assent to the bills, or referring them to parliament with "specific observations".Instead, Dr Alvi "purposely delayed the assent", and...
August 21, 2023

Pakistan president denies approving laws giving military more power

An Air Force aircraft takes part in military drills by the Eastern Theater Command of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) around Taiwan, in this screengrab from a handout video released Saturday. — courtesy Reuters
Taiwan detects 42 warplanes in Chinese military drills
TAIPEI — More than 40 Chinese warplanes flew over Taiwan’s air defense zone on Saturday, as part of military drills that Taiwan called “irrational and provocative”.About 26 Chinese aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense said.It said Beijing was trying to influence Taiwan’s upcoming election. China said the drills would test its forces’ ability to fight in “combat conditions”, state media reported.The People’s Liberation Army “launched joint air and sea patrols and military exercises of the navy and air force around the island of Taiwan” on Saturday, military spokesperson Shi Yi is quoted by Xinhua as saying.The exercises would serve as a “stern warning to the collusion of ‘Taiwan independence’ separatists with...
August 19, 2023

Taiwan detects 42 warplanes in Chinese military drills

A wreath is laid at UN Headquarters in New York in memory of the UN personnel who were killed and injured in the attack on the UN’s office in Baghdad in 2003. — courtesy UN Photo/Loey Felipe
Protecting humanitarians 20 years after deadly Baghdad attack, amid rising risks
BAGHDAD — The United Nations on Friday paid tribute to 22 staff members killed in the bombing of its headquarters in Iraq 20 years ago, one of the darkest days in the organization’s history.The wreath-laying ceremony at the UN in New York was held on the eve of World Humanitarian Day, commemorated annually on Aug. 19.This marks the day in 2003 when a suicide bomber detonated a truck full of explosives outside the UN headquarters at the Canal Hotel in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.Among the staff who lost their lives was Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights and head of its mission in the country.More than 150 people were injured in the attack, mainly local and international aid workers helping reconstruct the country following the overthrow of Saddam...
August 19, 2023

Protecting humanitarians 20 years after deadly Baghdad attack, amid rising risks

Chinese and Russian vessels conduct joint exercises in the East China Sea.
Russian and Chinese warships sail close to Japanese islands on eve of Biden’s trilateral summit
TOKYO — Japan expressed “grave concern” after Chinese and Russian warships sailed close to its southern islands on Thursday, just a day before its leader is expected to discuss rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific at a summit with counterparts from South Korea and the United States.Six Chinese ships, among them missile destroyers, and five Russian vessels, some of them destroyers, sailed between Japan’s Okinawa Island and Miyako Island before moving toward the East China Sea on Thursday, according to Japan’s defense ministry.It is the first time Russian and Chinese ships have sailed together through this particular body of water. The vessels did not intrude into Japan’s territorial waters.The 11 naval vessels were first spotted 280 kilometers (about 174 miles) northeast of...
August 18, 2023

Russian and Chinese warships sail close to Japanese islands on eve of Biden’s trilateral summit

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