Russia is set to dock a long-awaited new module to the space station on Thursday
Summary List PlacementRussia is finally ready to attach a long-awaited science module to the International Space Station.The new module, a 43-foot-long cylinder called Nauka (meaning "science" in...
View ArticleRussia's new space-station module has glitched, firing its thrusters and...
Summary List PlacementA new Russian space-station module malfunctioned after it docked to the station on Thursday. The module, called Nauka, starting unexpectedly firing its thrusters — which moved the...
View ArticleNASA has delayed Boeing's spaceship flight after a Russian module pushed the...
Summary List PlacementA major mishap on the International Space Station has forced NASA and Boeing to delay the company's planned spaceship flight.Boeing was set to launch its spacecraft, called...
View ArticleNATO fighter jets intercepted 2 rarely seen Russian electronic-warfare planes
Summary List PlacementSome pretty interesting close encounters between NATO fighters supporting BAP (Baltic Air Policing) mission and Russian aircraft flying in international airspace close to the...
View ArticleTrumpworld is being tormented by this tiny legal office that almost nobody's...
Summary List PlacementWhen Brandon Van Grack left the Justice Department in January, stepping down from a top role policing foreign influence, his government colleagues sent him off with a curious...
View ArticleRussia plans to build a bitcoin tracking tool to monitor crypto wallets...
Summary List PlacementRussia plans to build a bitcoin monitoring tool to track cryptocurrency wallets possibly linked to criminal activities as well as terrorism financing, CoinDesk first reported...
View ArticleRussia and Israel may be on a collision course in Syria
Summary List PlacementRecent statements by a Russian admiral and an anonymous Russian source have prompted speculation about whether Russia is changing its approach regarding Israeli strikes on Iranian...
View ArticleTurkey is building new ships, tanks, and missiles to boost its military and...
Summary List PlacementIn June, the Turkish navy successfully test-fired the Atmaca, Turkey's first domestically produced long-range anti-ship cruise missile.The missile was fired from the TCG...
View Article2 perfectly preserved cave lion cubs from the Ice Age, still with whiskers...
Summary List PlacementScientists have found two nearly perfectly preserved cave lion cubs from the Ice Age, nicknamed Boris and Sparta, in east Russia.Only four ancient cave lion cubs have ever been...
View ArticleThe Ever Given incident is a warning about what Russia and China are capable...
Summary List PlacementThe container ship Ever Given getting stuck in the Suez Canal in March was a billion-dollar demonstration of an overlooked security threat, a top Democrat in Congress says."I...
View ArticleTaking on Russia and China means US Special Operations Command is rethinking...
Summary List PlacementBefore any shots are fired in a major conflict, a war of words and ideas is already underway.The modern era's unprecedented level of interconnectivity and the proliferation of...
View ArticleRussian security agents arrest research chief who worked on hypersonic...
Summary List PlacementRussian state security agents detained the head of a research facility who has been working on hypersonic aircraft on suspicions of treason, Russian state media reported...
View ArticleFacebook removed a Russian vaccine misinformation campaign that claimed the...
Summary List PlacementFacebook banned hundreds of social media accounts linked to a Russian vaccine misinformation network, the company said in its July Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior report (CIB)...
View ArticleRussia expels British journalist Sarah Rainsford, who said the move is...
Summary List PlacementThe long-time Moscow correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation is being kicked out of Russia in apparent retaliation for UK sanctions on officials in the country.The...
View ArticleVIDEO: A new Russian military transport plane caught fire in flight and...
Summary List PlacementA prototype of Russia's new Ilyushin Il-112V military transport aircraft caught fire during a test flight and crashed near Moscow on Tuesday, Russian media reported, citing the...
View ArticlePhotos: I was in Afghanistan in 1996 when the Taliban first took power
Summary List PlacementIn the autumn of 1996, I received an assignment from The New York Times to go to Afghanistan to cover how a little-known (in the West, anyway) fundamentalist group called the...
View ArticleA Chinese satellite seems to have collided with a piece of a Russian rocket...
Summary List PlacementA Chinese satellite mysteriously broke apart in March, scattering into dozens of pieces. Now, a Harvard astronomer has discovered what likely happened: It seems to have collided...
View ArticleMerkel told Putin to his face that Navalny's imprisonment is unacceptable,...
Summary List PlacementGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Friday for Russian President Vladimir Putin to release Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny from prison on the one-year anniversary of his...
View ArticleApple and Google ordered by Russia's media authority to take down the app of...
Summary List PlacementRussia's media authority Roskomnadzor has ordered Apple and Alphabet, Google's parent company, to take the app of the biggest opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin off of...
View ArticleJailed Putin critic Navalny says he's being forced to watch Russian state TV...
Summary List PlacementRussian opposition leader and jailed President Vladimir Putin critic Aleksei Navalny said he is being forced to watch over eight hours of Russian state TV and propaganda films...
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