Russia floats idea of ‘reset’ with United States after Trump declares victory
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Russia floats idea of ‘reset’ with United States after Trump declares victory

ByNews Polite

New opportunities to reset relations between Moscow and Washington have opened up, the influential head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund said on Wednesday after Donald Trump declared victory in the US presidential election. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 triggered the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the…

Volcanic eruption burns houses in Indonesia, killing at least 10 people
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Volcanic eruption burns houses in Indonesia, killing at least 10 people

ByNews Polite

Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency said Monday that at least 10 people have died as a series of volcanic eruptions widens on the remote island of Flores. The eruption at Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki around midnight spewed thick brownish ash as high as 6,500 feet into the air and hot ashes hit…

NASA’s Voyager 1 jumpstarts radio transmitter unused since 1981 to ‘phone home’
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NASA’s Voyager 1 jumpstarts radio transmitter unused since 1981 to ‘phone home’

ByNews Polite

The 47-year-old NASA Voyager 1 fell back on a radio transmitter it hadn’t used since 1981 to ping home base after a technical issue caused a days-long communication stall between Earth and the farthest-ever recorded spacecraft. The Voyager has been floating further and further away since its historic launch in…

Elite Israeli commandos storm beach to snatch top Hezbollah official: IDF
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Elite Israeli commandos storm beach to snatch top Hezbollah official: IDF

ByNews Polite

Israel’s equivalent of the elite Navy SEALs stormed a beach in Lebanon over the weekend, snatched a nearby senior Hezbollah operative and then raced off with him in a speedboat, officials say. The weekend operation involved commandos with the Israel Defense Force’s Shayetet 13 force, who were deployed along the…

Israel pounds Beirut’s southern suburbs after US truce push
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Israel pounds Beirut’s southern suburbs after US truce push

ByNews Polite

Israel pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs with a series of powerful airstrikes early on Friday morning after issuing evacuation orders to residents, in the first such strikes in days targeting the dense urban area, Reuters witnesses said. The Israeli military said it was targetting Hezbollah facilities and assets, an assertion that…

Lost Mayan city discovered in southern Mexico jungle
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Lost Mayan city discovered in southern Mexico jungle

ByNews Polite

 Archeologists in Mexico have discovered a huge, lost Mayan city, which they named Valeriana, hidden deep in the southern jungle of Campeche — a sprawling, urban settlement replete with architectural marvels and agricultural infrastructure. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The discovery of what appears to have been a bustling urban landscape challenges…

China’s new crew has arrived at space station in sign of growing influence in space field
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China’s new crew has arrived at space station in sign of growing influence in space field

ByNews Polite

A Chinese spaceship carrying a three-person crew docked with its orbiting space station Tuesday as the country seeks to expand its exploration of outer space in competition with the United States, even as it looks for cooperation from other nations. The team of two men and one woman will replace…

Ex Air Force pilot Robert Prussak acquitted of kidnap, sex assault of girl in London
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Ex Air Force pilot Robert Prussak acquitted of kidnap, sex assault of girl in London

ByNews Polite

A former US Air Force officer charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a lost nine-year-old girl he found outside the famed Harrods department store in London last spring has been acquitted in a shocking twist. Robert Prussak, 57, broke down in tears as he was found not guilty of three…