Ulanqab, China — Off a major highway on the outskirts of Ulanqab, in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia, Hereford cows roam through corn fields scouring the ground for any dried up remains of the recent harvest. Hovering over the landscape are shiny new transmission towers linked by power cables that stretch along the plateau for…
Completing a complex upgrade five years in the making, two spacewalking astronauts on Thursday mounted an eighth and final roll-out solar wing on the International Space Station, boosting the lab’s power output to compensate for the age-related degradation of its original arrays. NASA began the power-system upgrade in 2021 when two spacewalkers installed the first…
“Glaring gaps” in the United Kingdom’s Arctic defenses are leaving it and NATO vulnerable to attacks from Russia, British lawmakers said in a parliamentary report published Thursday. The group urged the British government to “urgently address” gaps in maritime forces, particularly with the U.S. acting “more unilaterally in the region.” “This is a demanding, hostile…
23m ago Qatari aircraft leaves Tehran 30 minutes after arrival A Qatari aircraft arrived in Tehran Tuesday just minutes after a plane carrying Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, departed. The Qatari plane left the Iranian capital approximately 30 minutes later, according to aviation tracking data cited by Iran’s semi-official Fars News agency….
London — The head of Britain’s top domestic spy agency MI5, Sir Ken McCallum, painted a dark picture Tuesday of the changing national security threats facing the U.K. and the world. “We have entered a new era of national security, requiring a new response,” he said in his annual threat update at MI5 headquarters in…
