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Israel aiming to land on moon with SpaceX launch

TheRepublic.com 

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Israel aims to land on the moon after hitching a ride with SpaceX. The Falcon rocket is scheduled to blast off Thursday night from Cape Canaveral, Florida. A communications satellite for Indonesia is the main cargo. But Israel’s privately funded lunar lander — a first not just for Israel but commercial

Weak growth spurred RBI to cut rate; MPC considered bigger cut

Business Standard 

Weak growth impulses along with expectations of lower food and fuel prices led the Reserve Bank of India to cut its key lending rate earlier this month and change its monetary policy stance to "neutral," showed the minutes of the latest Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting released here on Thursday.



Veterans stress covert operations in Pakistan to fight terror

Business Standard 

Condemning the killing of 40 CRPF troopers in the Pulwama terror attack last week, retired army men, police officers and former members of national investigation agencies on Thursday said India should conduct covert operations on Pakistan soil to destroy "important targets" and increase diplomatic pressure on Islamabad rather than getting into a full-fledged war.

Asaram's interim bail plea rejected

Business Standard 

The Rajasthan High Court on Thursday rejected the interim bail petition of self-styled godman Asaram, who is serving life imprisonment in the Jodhpur Central Jail on rape charges.

Puppy shows off his happy walk when his owner calls

LiveLeak.com 

Excited by his owner's call, this playful husky pup walks in a with a fun spring in his step and will bring a smile to any dog lovers face. According to the owner whenever the dog, named Jacob, is feeling happy or playful he will walk in this playful way. Jacob and his owner live in Manila, the Philippines, where this video was shot last Tuesday (February 19).

Police form human ladder to rescue teen boy washed away in river

LiveLeak.com 

Police officers formed a human ladder to rescue an 11-year-old boy who was washed downstream for two kilometers on a river in northwestern China. The CCTV video, shot in Kashgar Prefecture in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on February 14, shows a police car moving on a road to chase the boy washed away in a nearby river. After the policemen come out of the vehicle, one officer runs down into the river through the slope and manages to grab the boy, while three other officers form a human ladder quickly to help pull them up onto the shore. Читать дальше...

Justice Thomas' Ominous Threat Against a Vital Free-Press Precedent

Forbes.com 

This week, a current member of the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas, made clear that he stands ready to overturn an essential legal safeguard for journalists. However, we need journalists, now more than ever, to do their work aggressively and hold our political leaders accountable for their actions.

Meduza: Kyiv’s Maidan, five years later – a photo essay

Kyiv Post 

On Feb. 21, 2014, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich left Kyiv for Kharkiv and fled from there to Russia. At the time, Ukraine was in the throes of the largest social crisis in the country’s modern history. Anti-government protests had been ongoing in Kyiv since the previous November, and at the Maidan, or Independence Square, […]

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Israel set to become fourth nation to land on the moon

nzherald.co.nz 

An Israeli spacecraft rocketed toward the moon for the country's first attempted lunar landing, following a launch Thursday night (US time) by SpaceX. A communications satellite for Indonesia was the ...


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