Chaotic scenes emerged from the Kabul airfield in the wake of a full-blown Taliban takeover of the capital, seeing thousands of desperate Afghans flock to the airport in hopes of fleeing the country on Monday as US and other foreign diplomatic staff evacuated. While earlier footage showed frantic crowds attempting …
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The first video captured the landing of the rover, from the opening of the parachute till the touchdown in the Utopia Planitia plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars on May 15. The second, black and white footage was made by the Zhurong on the surface and featured the first …
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Speaking to Dublin’s Newstalk radio on Monday, Michael O’Leary took aim at officials in Minsk, and even suggested that KGB agents from Belarus were onboard the aircraft. On Sunday, a flight from Greece to Lithuania was forced to land due to a supposed bomb threat. The plane was escorted to …
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In a statement on Sunday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken demanded an international probe into the diversion of the Ryanair flight that made in emergency landing in Minsk shortly before leaving the Belarussian airspace due to reports of a bomb threat. After the plane landed, exiled editor of Belamova …
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Roman Protasevich is the editor of Belamova, a Telegram channel established last year by Igor Losik, a consultant for US state-run media organisation RFE/RL. Belamova was effectively outlawed last month, after a court in the eastern Belarusian city of Gomel declared it an “extremist” organization. Losik was arrested last summer …
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The start of the new phase of the Tianwen-1 mission was reported on Saturday by the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The telemetry data indicates that the Zhurong rover’s wheels touched Martian soil at 10:40am Beijing Time (2:40am GMT), the space agency said. The mission, which was launched in July …
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An American CV22 Osprey tiltrotor military craft was captured on film as it attempted to take off from Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge on Wednesday, with the downward blast of air from its propellers destroying the pad and sending parts flying across the hospital grounds. A major trauma center in East …
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American Airlines said the plane’s captain declared an emergency as it approached New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport from Miami on Friday, successfully reaching the airport and landing with just one engine online. The issue was not linked to the MCAS flight control system behind two fatal crashes in 2018 …
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Menacing giant Zuluzinho, who took on feted Emelianenko during his prime with Pride Fighting Championships more than 15 years ago, surprised some unsuspecting fans by making a return to MMA for his first fight since 2019 on Tuesday, looking massive against Russian opponent Yusup Shuaev. Now 42, man mountain Zuluzinho clubbed the game …
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The shocking incident happened shortly after United Flight 328 took off from Denver for Honolulu, and forced the crew to perform an emergency landing with the right engine on fire and large chunks of it missing. The Boeing 777-200 plane, which had 231 passengers and 10 crew on board, landed …
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