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“A journey of a billion miles to asteroid Bennu and back has come to an end,.” Dugway: The largest sample ever collected from an asteroid in space, and the first for NASA, landed in the Utah desert Sunday after a fiery final descent through Earth’s atmosphere, seven years after the mission’s launch. “Touchdown of the…
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In Shiite-dominated Iran, the term “takfiri” generally refers to jihadists. (Representational) Tehran: Iranian authorities have arrested 28 people linked to the Islamic State group for plotting to target Tehran during the anniversary of last year’s protests, the intelligence ministry said on Sunday. The protests erupted after the death in custody on September 16, 2022, of…
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Russian airstrikes on Sunday killed two people and wounded three others in southern Ukraine’s Kherson province, the region’s governor reported on Sunday as the war in Ukraine entered a 20th month. According to Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin, Russian forces struck the city of Beryslav, destroying an unspecified number of private houses. A woman was killed and…
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This image provided by the Pingtung County Government shows a factory fire at golf ball manufacturer Launch Technologies Co. in the southern county of Pingtung in Taiwan on Sept. 22, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Search teams found the bodies of the last three missing people on Sunday at the site of a golf ball…
The White House said this year’s effort would focus on priorities including climate change. Washington: President Joe Biden will host a second summit with Pacific island leaders this week, part of a U.S. charm offensive to block further Chinese inroads into a strategic region Washington has long considered its own backyard. During the three-day meeting,…
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The doll in handcuffs. In a very unusual incident, the police in Mexico arrested a Chucky doll which was being used by its owner to scare people, as per a report in the New York Post. Carlos “N” used Chucky, a doll that local authorities there have dubbed a “demon doll”, to terrorise residents by…
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September 24, 2023 12:08 pm | Updated 12:08 pm IST – NOUR SHAMS REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank Palestinians inspect a damaged building following an Israeli army raid in Nour Shams refugee camp in the northern West Bank, on September 24, 2023. Palestinians said at least two people were killed in the raid, which the Army…
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Two Latin words that signify equal and night make up the word equinox. The European Space Agency (ESA) on Saturday released a satellite picture of day and night split in half on Earth’s surface. The image posted on X, formerly Twitter, shows the crossing of the Sun in the celestial equator in the sky and…
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Chip startup Rivos is countersuing Apple Inc., claiming the tech giant forces employees to sign restrictive agreements that prevent them from working elsewhere and stifle up-and-coming companies that hire its staff. The countersuit filed Friday by Rivos and six ex-Apple employees in a San Jose federal court escalates an acrimonious trade secret feud that began…
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Reports in January claimed that a sea urchin species off Eilat was dying rapidly. Eilat, Israel: The Red Sea’s spectacular coral reefs face a new threat, marine biologists warn — the mass death of sea urchins that may be caused by a mystery disease. Because the long-spined creatures feed on algae that can suffocate corals,…
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