(Al Jazeera Media Network) The Odysseus lunar lander has made the first United States landing on the moon in more than 50 years, in what has been described as similar to a “cargo mission”.
The moment marks the first successful landing of a commercial spacecraft on the moon, following an unsuccessful US lunar lander mission last month.
The last craft launched from the U.S. to land on the Moon’s surface was Apollo 17 in 1972.
Odysseus, also known as “Odie”, is...
(BBC News) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has laid out his vision for a post-war Gaza.
Under his plan, Israel would control security indefinitely, and Palestinians with no links to groups hostile to Israel would run the territory.
The U.S., Israel's major ally, has indicated that it wants the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA) to govern Gaza after the war.
But the short document – which Netanyahu presented to ministers Thursday night – makes no mention of...
(BBC News) Alexei Navalny's mother has said she has been shown his body, but that the Russian authorities are pressuring her to allow a "secret" burial.
In a video address, Lyudmila Navalnaya said she had been brought to a morgue where she signed a death certificate.
Navalny's press secretary said a medical report presented to Navalnaya stated he died of natural causes.
Navalny's widow has said he was killed by Russian authorities.
Lyudmila Navalnaya said the law required officials...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hearings started at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Monday in a landmark case in which 52 countries are jointly presenting evidence about the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories.
The case stems from a request from the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on December 30, 2022. A majority of UNGA members voted to seek the court’s opinion on the legal consequences of the continuing Israeli occupation of...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran has accused Israel of being behind two attacks last week on gas pipelines that disrupted supplies in several provinces, further raising tensions between the regional archenemies amid the war on Gaza.
“The explosion of the country’s gas lines was the work of Israel,” Oil Minister Javad Owji said on Wednesday after a cabinet meeting.
“The plot was foiled,” he said.
Two explosions hit Iran’s leading south-north gas pipeline network on February 14. They were...
(BBC News) The most luminous object ever detected has been spied in the distant Universe.
It is a quasar – the bright core of a galaxy that is powered by a gargantuan black hole some 17 billion times the mass of our Sun.
Known as J0529-4351, the object's power was confirmed in observations by the Very Large Telescope in Chile.
Scientists, reporting in the journal Nature Astronomy, say the black hole has a voracious appetite, consuming the mass...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) London’s High Court has scheduled two days of hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday to decide whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may appeal a United States request for extradition to stand trial on espionage charges.
Those charges carry maximum penalties of 175 years, but the real danger, says Assange’s wife Stella, is that he may suffer an inadvertent death penalty instead.
“His health is in decline, physically and mentally,” Stella Assange recently told reporters....
(Al Jazeera Media Network) For researchers of China, keeping up with the country’s politics or economy is hard enough due to its opaque leadership and pervasive censorship.
Now they face a challenge from an unexpected source: Google.
Late last year, Google began quietly removing links to cached pages from its search results, a function that had allowed Internet users to view old versions of web pages.
Danny Sullivan, Google’s public liaison for search, confirmed earlier this month that...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States has said it will block another resolution that will soon be presented at the United Nations urging a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza.
Algeria has proposed a new resolution be put to a vote on Tuesday at the UN Security Council (UNSC) that seeks an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian group that governs Gaza, while demanding an “immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.”
“Should it...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A senior bureaucrat in Pakistan has said he helped rig Pakistan’s elections, a week after polls marred by allegations of manipulation returned no clear winner.
On Saturday, Liaqat Ali Chattha, commissioner of the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where the country’s powerful military has its headquarters, said he would hand himself over to police and step down from his position.
“We converted the losers into winners, reversing margins of 70,000 votes in...
