India makes history as Chandrayaan-3 lands near Moon’s south pole
New images of Moon’s surface taken by lander
These Images, taken during the Chandrayaan-3 lander’s descent to the Moon, have just been released.
Isro shared the pictures on social media and says they were taken by the lander’s horizontal velocity camera.
Summary
- India’s Chandrayaan-3 becomes the first space mission to land near the south pole of the Moon
- “India is now on the Moon,” announces PM Narendra Modi immediately after the Vikram lander touches down on the lunar surface
- Inside the lander is the six-wheeled Pragyaan rover, which, if all goes to plan, will roam the lunar surface gathering images and data
- Scientists believe craters that are permanently in shadow on the dark side of the Moon may hold frozen water
- The attempt – India’s third lunar mission – comes days after Russia’s unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft span out of control and crashed into the Moon
Drone strikes Moscow building as region hit by sixth successive night of attacks
Building under construction in capital’s financial district damaged as three people killed in Belgorod region, governor says
A drone hit a building under construction in Moscow’s financial district early on Wednesday in the sixth straight night of aerial attacks on Russia’s capital region.
A loud explosion was heard in Moscow’s business district on Wednesday morning, a short time after flights were suspended at the city’s airports, Russia’s RIA news agency reported. Russian media published videos showing the moment of the explosion that left charred holes in the side of the buildings.
The central district is less than three miles from the Kremlin.
The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, said the Russian military downed two more drones over the western part of the Moscow region.
Thai king appoints Srettha as new prime minister after vote
Business tycoon Srettha Thavisin has been voted in after a monthslong deadlock since the May election. Srettha’s Pheu Thai party is part of a multi-party coalition, including allies with the military.
Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn appointed Srettha Thavisin as the country’s new prime minister on Wednesday, commanding him to form a new government, during a ceremony that was broadcast live on television.
The Thai parliament voted a day earlier to elect Srettha of the Pheu Thai party as the country’s new prime minister, after a monthslong deadlock since the progressive Move Forward Party (MFP) secured the biggest number of seats in May’s polls.
Srettha needed 375 votes in total from the country’s combined upper and lower houses to secure the prime minister position.
Pheu Thai, which came second in the election, had initially allied itself with the MFP, alongside six other parties. However, it decided earlier in August to seek a new alliance excluding the MFP, whose candidate for prime minister was blocked at least twice.
Japan begins final preparations for Fukushima water release
The final preparations to discharge waste water from the crippled Fukushima power plant in Japan began Wednesday, its operator said, a day before the scheduled release into the Pacific Ocean.
Tokyo had announced on Tuesday that the operation into the Pacific would begin on Thursday, prompting an angry response from China and partial import bans on Japanese seafood by Hong Kong and Macau.
The operator of the plant, TEPCO, said Tuesday that it diluted a cubic metre of the waste water with around 1,200 cubic meters of seawater and allowed it to flow into position in a pipe.
This water will be tested and then from Thursday released into the sea together with more water stored at the site that will be transferred and diluted, TEPCO said in a statement.
Hungary frees more than 1,400 foreign convicts, angering the EU
Those released by Budapest were found guilty of people smuggling.
Hungary has released more than 1,400 foreigners convicted of people smuggling, a move challenged by the European Commission.
“We have released 1,468 detainees of foreign nationality who have been convicted of smuggling of human beings,” the National Command of Penitentiary Services told the Agence France-Presse news agency in an email.
In April, Budapest announced that it would release foreign people smugglers and give them three days to leave the country.
Suspected Chinese dissident rides jet ski hundreds of miles to South Korea
A jet ski rider detained by South Korea for allegedly entering the country illegally is a prominent Chinese dissident who rode hundreds of miles across the sea to escape from China, activists say.
The man, who is in his 30s, was apprehended August 16 near Incheon, on South Korea’s west coast near to the capital Seoul, the Incheon Coast Guard said in a news release Sunday.
He is suspected of traveling from China’s eastern Shandong province, which lies about 400 kilometers (250 miles) across the Yellow Sea from Incheon. Carrying only a helmet, binoculars and a compass, the man had also tied five 25-liter (6.6 gallon) fuel tanks to the jet ski, the release added.
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