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  Last update: 22:05 GMT 06.05.2021

  22:05 GMT 06.05.2021

  Middle East

  Alleged IRGC Animated Video Shows Missile Launched at Israeli Dimona Nuclear Facility

  Earlier on Thursday, the IRGC commander, Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, stated that Israel's “national security bubble has burst”, claiming that "the regime can be destroyed through just one operation" pointing at a series of recent security incidents in the Jewish state.

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  Last update: 01:47 GMT 07.05.2021

  01:47 GMT 07.05.2021

  Tech

  ‘Not Out of the Question’: Elon Musk Tweets Hope for Uncrewed Mission to Mars in 2024

  SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has since the start of his career held hopes of sustaining human life on Mars while increasingly exploring the expansion of human consciousness. In 2002, he launched his efforts through an aerospace company with realized ambitions to colonize Mars.

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  Last update: 02:15 GMT 07.05.2021

  02:15 GMT 07.05.2021

  Viral

  Two Police Officers in Nashville Assaulted With Colostomy Bag by Drunk, Report Says

  The incident took place on Saturday, outside the Big Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse owned by musician Kid Rock, where an intoxicated perpetrator blocked an outside emergency exit and refused to move.

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  Last update: 21:57 GMT 06.05.2021

  21:57 GMT 06.05.2021

  Russia

  Unpredictable: Roscosmos Chief Rogozin Reveals Map of Possible Crash Area of Core Stage of Chinese Rocket CZ-5B

  The Chinese Chang Zheng 5B (CZ-5B or “Long March” 5B), a heavy-class carrier rocket, was launched last week. Its core stage, weighing in at 18 tonnes, does not have a means of navigation and its uncontrolled descent is being tracked by the world's biggest space organizations.

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  Last update: 01:46 GMT 07.05.2021

  01:46 GMT 07.05.2021

  Tech

  Long March 5B: Astrophysicist Photographs Chinese Rocket Around 700 km Above Earth

  Beijing launched a Long March 5, or Chang Zheng 5 (CZ-5), rocket into Earth's orbit last week to deliver a key component of the future Chinese space station. It is unlikely that major space organizations will be able to accurately pinpoint the crash zone of the Chinese heavy-lift launch vehicle until it first reenters Earth's atmosphere.

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  Last update: 22:20 GMT 06.05.2021

  22:20 GMT 06.05.2021

  Asia & Pacific

  Kiribati Clamor: Western Experts Fear Chinese Runway Repair Actually Aims at New Air Base

  While Western strategists continue to worry China may turn some remote Pacific island into a new military base, the US operates several large military facilities in the region, some just 400 miles from the Chinese coast.

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  Last update: 01:11 GMT 07.05.2021

  01:11 GMT 07.05.2021

  Military & Intelligence

  Pentagon Adds ‘Package’ of F-18 Jets to Assist With US Troop Withdrawal in Afghanistan

  US President Joe Biden announced in April that the withdrawal of American troops in Afghanistan would not be completed by the previously agreed upon May 1 deadline, declaring instead that the forces would be out of the war-torn country by September 11, marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the US.

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  Last update: 16:04 GMT 06.05.2021

  16:04 GMT 06.05.2021

  Military & Intelligence

  US Supports Ukraine's Entry Into NATO

  Kiev dropped its pursuit of non-bloc status after the US and EU-backed Maidan coup d'etat in February 2014, and has since expressed its intention to join the Western alliance. Under NATO's rules, countries with territorial disputes with neighbours, and those suffering from civil war, are not eligible to join until these problems are resolved.