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We’re rapidly approaching the quarter mark of the 21st century, but instead of being at the brink of a radical transformative stage, such as the futuristic vision akin to Arthur C. Clarke’s Star Child from 2001: A Space Odyssey, we’re still throwing proverbial bones into the sky. China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonSuch is the feeling I get in the wake of three recent Moon missions, in which two spacecraft, Japan’s SLIM and Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus, survived despite falling awkwardly onto the lunar surface,…

Last Updated: February 28, 2024, 15:14 ISTWhat Is Aurus Senat, Vladimir Putin's Official Limousine He Gifted To Kim Jong Un?(Photo: Car Magazine)Russian President Vladimir Putin recently gifted a luxury four-wheeler to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.  It is a Russia-made limousine Aurus Senat.Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently gifted a luxury four-wheeler to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.It is a Russia-made limousine Aurus Senat, which is also known as Putin’s official vehicle. Despite being internationally…

Yulia Navalnaya's account on Elon Musk's X social-media service was briefly suspended, a day after it was used to help her challenge Russian President Vladimir Putin over the death of her husband. The widow of opposition leader Alexey Navalny accused Putin of killing him in a video posted on her X account on Monday. That came as she announced she was taking over Navalny's role as opposition leader after his death in a remote Russian prison colony on Friday.Her profile page showed an “account suspended” message on Tuesday…

The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was temporarily suspended from X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday after announcing she would continue her dead husband’s fight against Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian government.   Since Navalny’s death on Friday, Yulia Navalnaya has led a public campaign to pressure the Russian government for the return of her husband’s body, and for cooperation from the international community in holding the Putin government accountable for his death. Russian authorities claim…

Tucker Carlson recently visited Russia to interview the country’s president/dictator Vladimir Putin and Jon Stewart has some thoughts. The Daily Show host addressed the Carlson incident after explaining the backlash he received about his show last week from Democrats. “It was never my intention to say out loud what I saw with my eyes and then brain,” Stewart said, apologizing to those he upset with his “both sides rhetoric.” He added, “I can do better. I can haz learning. I can haz it. But I don’t even know where…

Russia has arrested at least 400 people across the country for protesting the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was imprisoned in a Russian penal colony when he died suddenly on Friday. Among those detained is a priest, Father Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko, who was planning to lead a St. Petersberg memorial service in tribute to Navalny. Human rights group OVD-Info said that by Saturday night, police had detained at least 401 people across the country. More than 200 of those arrests took place in St.…

Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison Friday, Russia’s prison agency said. He was 47. The Federal Prison Service said in a statement that Navalny felt unwell after a walk Friday and lost consciousness. An ambulance arrived to try to rehabilitate him, but he died. Navalny’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said on X (formerly Twitter), that the politician’s team had no…

Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, died on Friday while imprisoned in Russia. Navalny’s death comes as the American conservative movement has grown sympathetic toward Putin, an autocrat whose political enemies have a long history of dying under mysterious circumstances. Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is at the forefront of the right’s adulation of the Russian president, and just days before Navalny’s death he defended the nation’s alleged political assassinations.…

Yulia Navalnaya, now the widow of Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny, demanded after her husband’s death on Friday that the Russian autocrat and his government “be personally held responsible for all of the atrocities they have committed.” Russian correctional authorities announced earlier on Friday that Alexei Navalny, who was serving a 19-year prison sentence in an Arctic penal colony, died after experiencing a sudden collapse. Given the cloud of suspicious deaths surrounding vocal Putin critics — and the fact…

Navalny for years battled corruption in a nation rife with it Alexei Navalny, the Russia opposition leader and fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, died in prison, Russian authorities announced on Friday. He was 47. Trending “The facility’s medical staff immediately arrived and an ambulance brigade was called,” the nation’s penitentiary service said in a statement. “All necessary resuscitation measures were taken, which did not lead to positive results. The ambulance…