Luna-25 Spacecraft Made Adjustments While Attempting to Prepare for Landing on Lunar Surface

Luna-25 Spacecraft Made Adjustments While Attempting to Prepare for Landing on Lunar Surface

ByNews Polite

Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft adjusted its orbit on Friday as it prepared to attempt the first landing near the south pole of the moon, space agency Roscosmos said. “Today at 09:20 Moscow time (11:50 am IST), the propulsion system of the automatic station performed an orbit correction lasting 40 seconds. Its…

Apple Fined by Russia Court for Not Deleting Allegedly Inaccurate Content

Apple Fined by Russia Court for Not Deleting Allegedly Inaccurate Content

ByNews Polite

A Moscow court fined Apple RUB 400,000 (nearly Rs. 3.5 lakh) on Thursday for not deleting “inaccurate” content about what Russia calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported.  The TASS news agency said it was the first time Apple had been fined for that offence.  Apple did…

WhatsApp Faces Penalty in Russia on Accusations of Failing to Delete Banned Content: Report

WhatsApp Faces Penalty in Russia on Accusations of Failing to Delete Banned Content: Report

ByNews Polite

Messenger service WhatsApp faces a maximum fine of RUB 4 million (nearly Rs. 41 lakh) after Russia accused it of failing to delete banned content, state-owned news agency RIA reported on Friday, citing a Moscow court. Although WhatsApp’s parent company Meta Platforms was last year banned in Russia as an “extremist”…

Google Fined RUB 3 Million in Russia Over YouTube Videos on LGBT Propaganda: Reports

Google Fined RUB 3 Million in Russia Over YouTube Videos on LGBT Propaganda: Reports

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A Russian court fined Alphabet‘s Google RUB 3 million (nearly Rs. 31 lakh) on Thursday for failing to delete YouTube videos it said promoted “LGBT propaganda” and “false information” about Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported. Over the last year Moscow has levied dozens of fines against…

Ukrainian soldiers freeze sperm in case they die fighting Russia
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Ukrainian soldiers freeze sperm in case they die fighting Russia

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Ukrainian soldiers headed off to battle are trying to ensure the survival of their bloodlines by freezing their sperm before they leave. The practice — which several local clinics have begun offering for free — has become something of a patriotic duty, according to the New York Times. Besides being…

Wikipedia Owner Fined for Failing to Delete Alleged Extremist Content

Wikipedia Owner Fined for Failing to Delete Alleged Extremist Content

ByNews Polite

The Wikimedia Foundation, owner of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, was fined by a Russian court on Thursday for failing to delete content considered extremist as Moscow pursues a drive to crack down on independent sources of information. Wikipedia, which says it offers “the second draft of history”, is one of…

Russia hits apartments and dorm, killing civilians
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Russia hits apartments and dorm, killing civilians

ByNews Polite

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia stepped up its missile and drone attacks against Ukraine on Wednesday, killing students and other civilians, in a violent follow-up to dueling high-level diplomatic missions aimed at bringing peace after 13 months of war. “Russia is shelling the city with bestial savagery,” President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote in…

Ukraine’s northeastern front could decide new battle lines
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Ukraine’s northeastern front could decide new battle lines

ByNews Polite

A tank carrying Ukrainian infantry speeds toward a target position marked with a metal sheet. The soldiers climb down, hurl grenades and unleash a crackle of machine-gun fire. Then they repeat the moves, getting faster with every iteration. It’s only a drill. But with the sounds of the real war rumbling just…