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India launches second Moon mission

22 July, 2019 NEW DELHI: India has successfully launched its second lunar mission a week after it halted the scheduled blast-off due to a technical snag. Chandrayaan-2 was launched at 14:43 local time (09:13 GMT) on Monday from the Sriharikota space station. India’s space chief said his agency had “bounced …

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Behind Houthi war on Saudi-Yemen border

21 July, 2019 By Naseh Shaker {(Yemeni Freelance Journalist), Courtesy MEE} On rocky hillsides overlooking the Saudi city of Najran, Houthi fighters are waging an attritional campaign, even as nearby towns and roads are being pounded by air strikes For three days Rafeeq al-Wadi and his cameraman trekked through the …

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Another Houthis drone attack on Saudi airbase

21 July, 2019 SANAA/ RIYADH: Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Saturday claimed to have carried out drone attacks on military targets in the King Khalid airbase in southwestern Saudi Arabia. In a statement, Houthi spokesman Yahia Sarei said the drone attacks targeted radars and military positions at the airbase near the …

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UK warns Iran against choosing ‘dangerous path’

20 July, 2019 LONDON/ TEHRAN: London Saturday advised British ships to avoid the Strait of Hormuz for “an interim period” following Iran’s seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker. “We remain deeply concerned about Iran’s unacceptable actions which represent a clear challenge to international freedom of navigation,” a government spokeswoman said …

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Dangerous heatwave starts hitting US & Canada

20 July, 2019 NEW YORK/ OTTAWA: Extremely hot weather has started to hit most of the United States, with temperatures set to peak over the weekend, meteorologists say. The heatwave could affect about 200 million people in major cities like New York, Washington and Boston in the East Coast, and …

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