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NASA’s Voyager 1 has resumed full operations, ending a period of silence. The spacecraft, which had stopped transmitting usable data since November 2023, is now once again providing valuable information from its four scientific instruments. Launched on September 5, 1977, Voyager 1 had been sending garbled data instead of its usual binary code while being over 15 billion miles from …

Hezbollah announced on Saturday that it had targeted Israel’s Meron air control base with guided missiles in retaliation for the assassination of senior military commander Taleb Abdallah. The attack reportedly destroyed parts of the base’s equipment and radars. This follows a previous attack on the Meron base by Hezbollah on Wednesday, which was part of a larger missile and drone …

World leaders gathered in Switzerland on Saturday for the first summit on peace in Ukraine, following Vladimir Putin’s demand that Kyiv effectively surrender if it wants to negotiate with Moscow. The two-day event at the luxurious Burgenstock resort includes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and more than 50 other heads of state and government, but Russia is not participating. Switzerland aims …

Israeli forces continued their operations in Gaza on Friday as truce efforts failed to yield results. Strikes were reported in Rafah and central areas of the Gaza Strip. At Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, mourners gathered around the body of an 11-year-old boy who died during an attack on the Bureij refugee camp. The Israeli military stated that its …

A senior Hezbollah official, Sheikh Ali Daamoush, stated that the group’s intensified attacks on Israel’s northern border are intended to make it costly for Israel to launch an all-out war on Lebanon. Daamoush, speaking during Friday prayers, explained that the attacks are also intended to pressure Israel into ending its war in Gaza. His remarks followed Hezbollah’s claims of firing …

Senior Israeli officials have clarified that recent comments by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, which criticized a French initiative to ease tensions on the Lebanese border, do not represent the Israeli government’s official stance. At the G7 summit in Italy, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France, the United States, and Israel would collaborate to reduce escalating violence between Hezbollah and …

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced on Friday that Israel will not participate in a trilateral framework proposed by France to ease tensions with Lebanon, criticizing Paris for its “hostile policies against Israel.” Gallant expressed his concerns on the social media platform X, stating, “While the State of Israel is fighting the most just war in its history, France has …

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Friday that Moscow would halt military actions and initiate peace negotiations “immediately” if Ukraine withdraws its forces from four regions and abandons its bid to join NATO. Putin stated, “The moment Kyiv agrees to these terms, begins the troop withdrawal, and formally renounces its NATO membership aspirations, we will instantly, quite literally at that …