NASA astronaut joins Russian cosmonauts for Thanksgiving Day ride to International Space Station

NASA astronaut joins Russian cosmonauts for Thanksgiving Day ride to International Space Station

American astronomer-turned-medical physicist and now NASA astronaut Chris Williams joined two Russian cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz ferry ship Thursday for a Thanksgiving Day flight to the International Space Station. With commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov at the controls of the Soyuz MS-28/74S spacecraft, flanked on his left by flight engineer Sergey Mikaev and on the right by…

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Nine killed in accidental explosion at police station in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials say

Nine killed in accidental explosion at police station in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials say

Nine people have been killed and 32 injured after a stockpile of confiscated explosives accidentally blew up at a police station in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said. It comes just days after a car blast killed several people in Delhi, in what the government has called a “terror incident”. The explosion happened on Friday evening at…

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Africa: Media Regulator Suspends Radio Station for Three Months for Calling Military Govt a Junta

Africa: Media Regulator Suspends Radio Station for Three Months for Calling Military Govt a Junta

According to media reports, the CSC’s decision followed the publication of a post on Radio Omega’s Facebook page on 30 July, “which was deemed to contain malicious and discourteous remarks towards the Burkinabe authorities”. The post was in relation to a demonstration in the Burkinabe capital, Ouagadougou, concerning a Burkinabe influencer who died in detention…

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