SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China on Sunday landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon, a landmark mission which aims to retrieve rocks and soil from the lunar surface, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said.
"At 6:23 am on June 2, the Chang'e-6 lander and ascender combination, with the support of the Queqiao-2 relay satellite, successfully landed in the pre-selected landing area in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the back of... (continue reading...)
By Mike Spector
New York (Reuters) - Boeing executives are unlikely to be criminally charged over fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people as the statute of limitations has likely passed, U.S. Justice Department officials told victims' family members in a meeting.
Details were corroborated by a person familiar with the gathering on Friday and correspondence reviewed by Reuters.
The deadline for prosecuting most... (continue reading...)
CAIRO (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthis conducted six operations targeting a U.S. aircraft carrier, a U.S. destroyer and three vessels in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, the Iranian-backed group's military spokesperson Yahya Saree said on Saturday.
The Houthi militia, which controls the most populous parts of Yemen and is aligned with Iran, has attacked ships off its coast for months, saying it is acting in solidarity with Palestinians fighting Israel in... (continue reading...)
By Maria Caspani
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City police said on Saturday they had taken into custody more than two dozen people in connection with Friday’s pro-Palestinian protests at the Brooklyn Museum.
Six of the 29 individuals were arrested and charged with offenses including assault and criminal trespassing, while 16 people were released with orders to appear in court and another seven were issued summonses and released, a New... (continue reading...)
(Reuters) - Artur Chilingarov, a Russian polar scientist and explorer and veteran member of parliament, died on Saturday, the speaker of the state Duma lower house said. He was 84.
Chilingarov was born in the city then known as Leningrad to Russian and Armenian parents and spent much of his childhood in Russia's North Caucasus region.
From the early 1970s he was in the forefront of Russian scientific achievements in the Arctic and... (continue reading...)
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